Responsibilities

Under direct supervision of the professional staff, the Patient Care Tech, Telemetry performs certain non-complex duties related to patient care and functioning of the unit. The Patient Care Tech, Telemetry functions to support the staff by assisting with clerical duties, along with delivery of patient care to varied age groups, while providing a calm, caring and clean environment.

Essential Functions:

• The Patient Care Tech assists other members of healthcare team in delivering safe, appropriate and quality patient care.
• Assists with or provides basic nursing care in order to help the nurse meet the activities of daily living for the patient.
• Assists with patient mobility needs, including turning, positioning, transferring and ambulation of patients as directed, using appropriate and proper body mechanics and assistive devices.
• Responds to emergency situations within the scope of their training and performs under the direction of the RN staff (i.e., CPR).
• Performs vital signs (VS), including use of automatic blood pressure (BP) machine, as directed by the nursing staff.
• Under the direction of RN, provides basic skin care to prevent skin breakdown and maintain/improve skin integrity.
• Answers call bells and responds to patients' requests that are within their scope or communicates the need to the nurse.
• Transfers and moves all patient age groups via wheelchair, bed or stretcher to appropriate locations within the hospital.
• Maintains open communication with department staff and accepts direction to ensure a safe environment.
• Possesses and demonstrates a working knowledge of equipment in order to ensure a safe environment.
• Understands and respects patients' rights to privacy and dignity in order to maintain patient confidentiality.
• Ensures that equipment and supplies considered essential are functional, safe and readily accessible in order to provide a safe environment.
• Performs department-specific maintenance duties as appropriate to department.
• Acts as a patient advocate to ensure safe, appropriate and quality patient care.
• Adheres to standards of practice for infection control and universal precautions.
• Assists with communications between Department Manager, House Supervisor and unit staff regarding the 24-Hour Report, admissions, transfers and bed availability to operationalize department activities.
• Answers phone and faxes requests for patient information and physician discharge instructions to primary care provider per HIPAA guidelines.
• Organizes, maintains and updates departmental files and records (e.g., patient's clinical record, unit statistics, old records, etc.) in an accurate manner to provide for timely and efficient processing of information.
• Copies and faxes records in a prompt manner according to established medical records policy in order to fulfill requests from appropriate sources

Schedule: 7:00am to 7:30pm, three days per week, every other weekend and every other holiday