Advanced Care Technician-TC BU - Telemetry-Sharp Tri City Medical Center-Night Shift-Full-Time

Hours:

Shift Start Time: 7 PM Shift End Time: 7:30 AM AWS Hours Requirement: 12/36 - 12 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information:
Weekend Requirements:
Every Other On-Call

Required:

No

Position Pay: $25.000 - $25.630 - $30.330

This position is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU.

An Advanced Care Technician works under the direction of a Registered Nurse, provides basic patient care and comfort measures for assigned patients. These duties are not to exclude other duties that may be assigned.

Provides care for infant (0-1 year of age), emergency pediatric (1-13 years of age), and adult (14 years of age and older) populations.

• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association
  -REQUIRED

• ACT: 3-6 months previous experience in an acute care facility, preferred.
• ACT-Float: 1-Year previous experience in an acute care facility, preferred.
• NICU Department:
  Minimum 2 years CNA experience, required. Pediatric experience strongly preferred.

• One or more of the following is required upon hire:
  Current California Certified Nurse Assistant Certification, or Current California Licensed Vocational Nurse, or Corpsman (military), or Nursing student that has completed the fundamentals of nursing including initial assessment and taking vitals.
• NVCI within 90 days of hire or transfer, required (ED, BHU IP and OP only).
• Maintain a minimum of 10 related to work CE from TCMC or other source annually in lieu of maintaining certification.

• Maintains a safe, clean working environment, including unit based safety and infection control requirements.
• Provides comfort measures to patients.
• Provides assistance with patient’s daily needs.
• Assists patients with meals as needed.
• Records and reports observations to immediate supervisor, including temperature, pulse, weight, and daily input and output.
• Cleans and prepares medical equipment.
• Reports condition of equipment.
• Assists in transporting patients, as necessary.
• Formula preparation (NICU Department)

• Basic computer skills.
• Must be able to speak, read and follow instructions in English.
• Knowledge of electronic charting.

Sharp Health Care is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

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