HCSS Patient Care Tech II

JOB SUMMARY : To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas.

MAJOR DUTIES / CRITICAL TASKS :

• Collects, reports, and documents data. Takes vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
• Obtains blood samples by venipuncture.
• Acquires 12 lead EKG.
• Performs and reports POCT.
• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse / designee as indicated by the patient’s plan of care.
• Provides for patients’ personal hygiene. Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assists with elimination, and cares for the incontinent patient and the patient with a urinary catheter. Assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care.
• Assists with feeding.
• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.
• Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of the patient.
• Assists the healthcare team by preparing patients and chaperoning during examinations / procedures or assists with other patient treatments.
• Provides for patient safety related to age and condition.
• Assists with patient restraints and maintains patient-specific safety precautions.
• Collects, reports, and documents data related to patient needs / emergencies and unusual patient and family behavior.
• Cares for the patient from a correctional environment
• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and health records at all times.
• Provides and maintains a clean, safe environment and performs and / or assists others to perform proper aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures.
• Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies.
• Assists with patient requests for other hospital services.

Marginal or Periodic Functions :