Patient Care Technician

About This Role

This role supports Registered Nurses in providing safe, quality patient care, including assisting with daily living activities, monitoring vital signs, and maintaining a clean environment. The Patient Care Technician ensures patient needs are met under the direction of the Nurse Manager.

Responsibilities

• Assist Registered Nurses in meeting patient needs to provide safe, quality care
• Participate in providing patient care, including implementing progressive mobility guidelines and ambulating, turning, and repositioning patients
• Use patient handling equipment for lifting, transferring, repositioning, and transporting patients
• Assist with activities of daily living such as feeding, bathing, toileting, and oral care
• Assist with patient monitoring, including obtaining, recording, and reporting vital signs, weights, and inputs/outputs
• Perform EKGs as required
• Maintain a clean and safe environment by providing new patients with supplies and ensuring a tidy bedside
• Act as a sitter to ensure patient safety needs are met, assisting with hygiene, nutrition, mobility, monitoring, and engaging patients in therapeutic activities

Nice to Have

• Analytical skills
• Problem Solving skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Oral Communication skills
• Written Communication skills
• Teamwork

Skills

* Required skills