Cvicu Patient Care Technician

Employment Type:

Part time

Shift:

12 Hour Day Shift

Description:

Performs a variety of direct patient care procedures to assist the unit manager, professional staff and physicians in providing patient care focused on the needs of the patient.

Job Responsibilities:

GENERAL PATIENT CARE - Meets the comfort and hygiene needs of the patient by providing care services such as bathing, oral hygiene procedures, hair care, bed pan/urinal use, skin care and garment, linen and bedding changes. Distributes meals and beverages, takes vital signs, collects lab specimens.

TECHNICAL CARE - Assists with completion of patient testing and treatment procedures, changes dressings, obtains blood specimens by utilizing appropriate skin puncture techniques, performs

cardiopulmonary resuscitation, obtains wound and throat cultures. May also set up and prime IV tubing and perform a 12-lead ECG and simple tracheostomy suctioning and care.

EQUIPMENT - Assists physician and professional staff in equipment supply and set up.

TRANSPORT - Assists with ambulating patients with assistive devices such as crutches and with transfer/transport procedures.

COMMUNICATION - Performs required documentation and communicates in a competent and effective manner to meet patient and/or family needs and regulatory requirements. Maintains strict confidentiality of patient, employee and department information to ensure patient rights.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - Utilizes time and resources effectively to promote quality and cost outcomes.

Other department specific duties as assigned.

Age Specific Competencies:

Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development for the appropriate age span of the units patients. The age span of the unit' s patients is:

Infancy Toddler Preschooler School Age

Adolescence Young Adult Middle Adult Geriatrics

Position Requirements:

Minimum Education:

Preferred: High School Diploma plus training acquired through work experience or education

Minimum Experience: Required: Less than one year of previous job-related

experience

Preferred: 1-2 years of previous job-related experience

Licensure/Certifications: Required:

Certified Nurse Assistant

CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)

Other: Completion of a Nursing Assistant Program with placement on the Illinois Department of Health Nurse Aide Registry or verification of an equal or higher educational level in a clinically focused program. Individuals working as Patient Care Assistants at Loyola University Medical Center prior to 1997 are exempt from the above guidelines and are grandfathered into the Patient Care Tech roles upon successful completion of an in-house orientation and training program for the Patient Care Tech position.

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