Patient Care Technician -PCT24-07415 - 4 LOCS

Position: Patient Care Technician 
Location: Perth Amboy, NJ

Job Summary: The Patient Care Technician is responsible for assisting registered professional nurses in the care of patients. The incumbent performs a range of essential generic job functions aimed at ensuring patient comfort, safety, and well-being.

Essential Generic Job Functions (List in order of importance):

1. Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
2. Prepares patients for assessment/admission, physical examination, and procedures.
3. Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric aged patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, assures appropriate labeling, and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of patients.
4. Performs EKG for patients as directed.
5. Assures the presence, functionality, and cleanliness of all necessary equipment.
6. Assists in the transport of patients to departments or units upon request.
7. Assists with preparation as necessary, ensuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed.
8. Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
9. Ensures the room environment is prepared for admission.
10. Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making.
11. Takes vital signs on admission under the direction of the RN, documents accordingly, and notifies the RN of results, assists with admission as appropriate inclusive of checking patient ID bands.
12. Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
13. Obtains and documents daily patient weights and observes and documents patient’s intake and output.
14. Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly, communicating with the RN immediately for any change in the patient’s condition.
15. Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs not limited to (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.). This process includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.).
16. Contacts: Regular contact with Medical Center personnel, patients, and visitors.

Required Skills & Experience:

• N/A

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• At least one (1) year PCT or CNA experience in a hospital setting strongly preferred.