Patient Care Technician - Medicine - Diabetic - Pt Nights

Patient Care Technician - Medicine - Diabetic - PT Nights with Benefits (11pm-7:30am)

Hackensack University Med CNTR, Hackensack, New Jersey

Requisition #

Shift Night

Status Part‑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.
• Engage in ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Take self‑directed or self‑motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required in the job, 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 (PI) 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 the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients on the unit.
• Obtains clinical data, including temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and O2 saturation, and documents findings in patient record; immediately notifies RN of abnormal results.
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, ensures appropriate labeling and processing of specimens to expedite patient throughput.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
• Collects, labels, and transports specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time, correctly labeling type, patient name, and room number.
• Performs EKG for patients as directed.
• Ensures 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 the transport of patient to departments or units upon request.
• Assists with preparation as necessary, ensuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed 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 including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making.
• Assists the patient with dressing/undressing and placing patient belongings in the appropriate bag labeled 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 and observes and documents patient intake and output.
• Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly and communicating with the RN immediately for any change in the patient’s condition.
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care specific to those needs, including age, culture, language, hearing, and visual impairment. This includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.).
• Performs other duties…