Job description
Overview:
Who We Are
What We Offer
Join our Hillcrest Medical team as a full-time, day shift, Patient Care Tech!
Who We Are
Hillcrest Hospital Pryor, located at 111 North Bailey, is part of Hillcrest HealthCare System. With over 60 locations throughout northeastern Oklahoma, most patients enjoy the convenience of a location that is close to home. Voted as the 65th Best Place to Work in the nation according to Modern Healthcare, patients and employees alike agree - when choosing a healthcare provider, you can be confident that Hillcrest Hospital Pryor is an excellent choice.
What We Offer
- Competitive pay
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k with Company match
- Company paid basic life insurance and long term disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including an additional extended illness bank
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Advancement and career development opportunities
What You’ll Do
The Patient Care Technician performs patient care and unit clerical duties under the direction of a Registered Nurse. Patient care duties include obtaining accurate vital signs, help with activities of daily living such as oral care, bathing, toileting, walking, passing meal trays, transporting patients, and other tasks as needed. Clerical duties will include preparing patient charts, order entry, answering call lights and phone calls, ordering and stocking supplies and keeping the nursing station clean and organized and other tasks as needed.
Job Duties Include:
Job Duties Include:
- Collaborates with the nurse to carry out patient care tasks within scope of practice. Bathes patients and provides linen changes as necessary. Passes meal trays and assists with ADLs. Collects, reports and documents vital signs, intake and output, finger stick glucose checks, EKGs, bladder scanning, other tasks as assigned. Notifies nurse of pertinent patient care needs; alerts nurse of unstable vital signs, patients appearing in distress, or changes in patient condition.
- Maintains a tidy, clean and safe environment at all times; empties trash when needed; reports all safety concerns in a timely manner.
- Assists with purposeful hourly rounding of patients and quickly responds to patient needs; responds to patient requests in person or escalates needs in a timely manner. Exemplifies excellent customer service communication skills. Reports all service recovery needs to nursing immediately.
- Maintains professional working relationships with co-workers, physicians and customers. Listens attentively as evidenced by appropriate response. Maintains positive attitude. Promotes teamwork. Willing to go the extra mile. Speaks clearly and has a pleasant tone of voice. Displays positive non-verbal communication skills. Demonstrates positive customer relations at all times.
- Wears identification badge while on duty. Complies with the hospital and departmental dress code and maintains a professional image/demeanor at all times.
- Prepares paperwork and submits for processing in an organized and timely manner. Prepares, organizes and maintains patient chart; possesses proficient computer skills for charting and order processing.
- Collaborates with the nurse to expedite schedules/procedures.
- Limits overhead paging to only urgent pages. Assesses a situation, considers alternatives and chooses the appropriate course of action with few errors.
- Collaborates with Housekeeping to assure rooms are turned over in a timely manner.
- Provides patient privacy, respect and dignity during patient/visitor encounters.
- Demonstrates protection of patient rights as evidenced by compliance with policies related to informed consent, DNR, ethical issues and resolution of patient complaints.
- Utilizes policy and procedure manuals, and other reference material to assure proper course of action.
What You’ll Bring
- Current BLS certification
- Position requires fluency in English language to function in job environment appropriately
- Good interpersonal, communication, team-work, and customer service skills
- Strong organizational, problem-solving and follow-through skills
- Ability to multi-task constantly, react to changes quickly/productively, and tolerate interruptions
- Ability to perform work when no directions are given
- Demonstrate knowledge of current computer systems, equipment or programs used in the organization, knowledge of Epic a plus!
- Demonstrate maturity and accountability
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