Patient Care Technician; PCT | Senior Unit

Position: Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Senior Unit
Avera Health -  - Responsibilities:
Provide safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs;
Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for;
Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff;
Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed;
Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies