Patient Care Technician - Nights

Patient Care Technician - FT Nights (11pm-7:30am)

HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MED CNTR
Hackensack, New Jersey

• Requisition #
• Shift: Night
• Status:
  Full Time with Benefits

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better – advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

• Provide patient care based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in the assigned service.
• Provide for effective and safe guest/patient outcomes through practice, judgment and critical actions.
• Maintain ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other healthcare team members regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Take self‑directed or self‑motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required, acting before being required to by events, improving job performance, and/or creating new opportunities.
• Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of the patient’s plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Participate in Unit/Department Performance Improvement activities.

• Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
• Prepares the patient for assessment/admission, physical examination and procedures.
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients on the unit.
• Obtains clinical data (temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation) and documents findings; notifies the RN immediately of abnormal results.
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, assures appropriate labeling and processing of specimens.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
• Follows through on specimen collection, labeling and transportation; always correctly labels type of specimen collected, including patient’s name and room number.
• Performs EKG for patients as directed.
• Assures presence, functionality and cleanliness of all necessary equipment; checks and maintains code cart, O2, and other emergency medical equipment as directed.
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets according to standard as directed by RN.
• Assists in transport of patient to departments or units upon request.
• Assists with meal preparations or feeding as needed.
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
• Ensures room environment is prepared for admission.
• Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, bed making).
• Assists patients with dressing/undressing and places belongings in the appropriate bag with completed property checklist; monitors return of clothing to family.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
• Provides post‑mortem care.
• Obtains and documents patient weights; observes and documents intake and output.
• Maintains a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly and communicating with the RN immediately for any change in patient condition.
• Identifies needs of patient populations served and modifies and delivers care specific to those needs (age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired). Communicates with patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver at appropriate level.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Completion of one of the following:
  Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care…