Patient Care Technician - Surg Prep Center

Company Overview

Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, one of the nation's top health care services providers, spanning five counties in southeastern Michigan. SJMHS represents more than 2,700 physicians and 14,000 nurses and staff, and includes 6 hospitals, 5 outpatient health centers, 8 urgent care facilities and over 25 specialty centers.

Type:
Part time

Shift: Day Shift

This position is Monday‑Friday – no holidays or on‑call.

• Competitive compensation
• Full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, Life Insurance and Disability
• Retirement savings plan with employer contribution
• Opportunity for growth and advancement throughout SJMHS and Trinity Health
• Free, on‑campus parking

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Under the direction of a registered nurse, the patient care technician is responsible for direct patient care considering age specific, developmental, cultural and spiritual needs. Demonstrates unit/area‑designated competencies. Assists in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe and conducive to patient/family well‑being including concepts of relationship‑based care.

Demonstrates excellent communication with team members:

• Takes initiative in reporting patient needs, abnormal findings and condition changes to RN
• Actively participates in structured and informal handoffs
• Performs purposeful hourly rounding
• Promptly responds to patient requests

Performs nursing care as delegated by the RN in an effort to identify/attain treatment goals such as:

• Records/calculates intake and output, obtains weights
• Applies support/orthopedic devices such as support hose and compression devices
• Obtains routine vital signs, pain score and temperature
• Assists the patient with coughing, deep breathing, use of incentive spirometer, oral suctioning
• Applies warm/cold therapies (heating pads, ice packs, cryocuff, hot ice machine and warm soaks)
• Provides care of the restrained patient including general care, application of the restraint and ongoing monitoring of the restrained patient
• Care and removal of Foley catheters
• Routine oxygen therapy, pulse oximetry
• Assist in preparing the body following death

Assists patient in completing ADLs including:

• Bathing, showering, toileting, positioning, turning, transferring & ambulation using assistive devices as needed and appropriate
• Assists with feeding and menu selection
• Distributes/collects nourishment and orders late trays
• Answers call lights

Demonstrates sterile or aseptic technique as appropriate when performing delegated activities such as:

• Collects and sends specimens including blood and blood cultures
• Obtains blood specimens from intermittent infusion devices, flushes intermittent infusion devices
• Inserts and removes peripheral IV catheters (not to include regulating drip rate of infusion)
• Competency based point of care testing such as blood glucose

Records patient information and required data in appropriate areas in order to meet documentation and charging requirements.

Assists in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe, and conducive to patient/family well‑being.

• Documents all patient belongings upon admission
• Prepares patient room for arrival / assists in transfers and or discharge of patients
• Orients patient/family/visitors to patient room, unit, waiting area and facilities
• Assists patient/family in the use of hospital equipment (telephone, lights, television)
• Makes occupied and unoccupied beds
• Collects and disposes of soiled linen
• Cleans and maintains equipment according to procedures

Provides wound and exit site care as delegated:

• Applies simple dressing to clean wounds of stage I or stage II depth (partial thickness) following assessment of the RN (does not include dressings that require topical ointments, gels, creams, packing or ace wraps)
• Secures complex dressings that have been changed by other caregivers.
• Performs PEG care and dressing changes

Completes delegated unit specific activities such as:

• Gathers post…