Patient Care Tech (Temp

Job Summary

The mission of Central Staffing Resource Department is to deliver world class expert care across the University of Michigan Health System, with the primary focus on patients and families. Our commitment is to provide supplemental staffing of Registered Nurses, Patient Care Associates, and Clerical Personnel to University Hospital, Mott Children's Hospital and The Cardiovascular Center.

The primary goal of CSR is to provide high quality, safe and effective patient care by providing supplemental staffing resources to units on an anticipated and unanticipated basis. In addition, CSR is committed to forming a partnership with other UMHS team members to better serve the welfare of the patients and families by establishing and maintaining high quality staffing standards.

Temp Patient Care Temp (PCT) are managed and assigned by CSR. General nursing support is provided on inpatient units in University Hospital, Mott Children's Hospital and the Cardiovascular Center. PCT staff utilize their skills to facilitate efficient patient progressions that contribute to a quality patient care experience.

Under direct supervision from a Registered Nurse or other designated supervision, provides direct patient care or miscellaneous technical support by performing delegated procedures of a specialized and technical nature, which may include obtaining hemodynamic measurements, setting-up and maintaining specialized clinical equipment and performing delegated clinical or laboratory procedures, changing dressings, assisting with admitting and discharge procedures. Assist with more complex procedures and perform complex diagnostic testing.

Develop and recommend changes in patient care activities to improve the quality of patient care services. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position are non-exempt.

Observation/Monitoring

• Obtains vital signs, temperature, height/length, weight, oxygen saturation and pain scores; reports abnormal values to RN. Obtains other measurements (i.e., head circumference, abdominal girth) per unit standard.
• Responds to monitor alarms.
• Utilizes palpation/auscultation and Doppler to determine heart rate and blood pressure.
• Observes, monitors and reports the overt physical condition of assigned patient(s).
• Responds to physiologic monitor alarms based on unit training and competencies. Alarms should be silenced or paused prior to an activity that will trigger an alarm such as bathing, drawing blood or getting a patient out of bed as delegated by RN. Ensures that alarms are ?on? when activity is completed and/or before leaving the patient.
• Measures and records intake and output.
• Functions as a patient attendant.
• Assists physician/provider during diagnostic procedures; assists and supports patient before and during procedures; assists in specimen collection.
• Applies and changes ECG electrodes and pulse ox probe; attaches patient to travel (ECG and A-line) monitor.
• Places monitor strips on inpatient records.

Specimen Collection

• Performs point of care testing; maintains and calibrates equipment and supplies.
• Collects specimens including urine, stool, sputum, swabs, and performs urine determination including sugar, acetone, specific gravity protein, and pH.
• Performs finger/heel stick blood collection and blood sugar testing.
• Initiates, maintains and records 24-hour urine collection.
• Transports blood and laboratory specimens.

Intravenous Lines

• Discontinues peripheral IV?s.
• Removes peripheral IV dressings.

Patient ADLs

• Assists patients with, or administers routine personal hygiene including baths, oral care, skin care, umbilical cord and circumcision care.
• Performs preventative skin care, pre-operative preps, perineal care.
• Provides toileting/bedpan/urinal; remove/empty foley catheters; weighs diapers.
• Accompanies, escorts, ambulates, moves, turns, dangles, lifts, transports and attends/holds/positions patients.
• Assists with range of motion; applies rehabilitation equipment; releases and applies devices, i.e. wheelchair seatbelt, adaptive equipment, etc., in accordance with specific instructions, to position patients to limit movements.
• Provides patient nourishment by performing such duties as passing and collecting trays, providing snacks/beverages, assists with ordering meals/snacks, feeds patients.

Urinary Catheters

• Performs intermittent sterile urinary catheterizations.
• Performs clean urinary catheterizations (Pediatrics only-waiting for data).
• Connects, drains and disconnects urinary catheters.
• Assembles intermittent bladder irrigation supplies.
• Discontinues urinary catheters.
• Applies condom catheter.
• Determines bladder status with Bladder Scanner.

Enemas/Suppositories

• Administers cleansing enemas that do not contain medication.
• Applies external Fecal Incontinence Device bags.

Wound Care

• Cleanses and redresses non-sterile wounds.
• Assists RN with complex dressing changes.
• Cares for permanent drainage sites and apply appropriate collection device, i.e., ostomy, G-tube, etc.
• Applies binders, ACE wraps, hot and cold applications;…