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UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital is hiring a Casual Patient Care Technician to join our Pediatrics team!

Apply now to join a unit with great teamwork and a diverse patient population!

Title and Salary will be determined based upon education and experience.

Purpose: The Patient Care Technician (PCT) supports patient care by assisting nurses and physicians with routine tasks and advanced skills. Their duties include helping with daily activities, conducting point-of-care tests, monitoring vital signs, and ensuring patient safety. They also perform advanced procedures like phlebotomy and EKGs as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Suggests and supports departmental changes and quality initiatives.

• Assumes responsibility for assignments and views problems as challenges.

• Demonstrates awareness of behavior on department efficiency.

• Performs core nursing assistant tasks: ADLs, point-of-care testing, weights, vital signs, I&O, telemetry monitor application, HAC & PSI prevention, simple dressings, restraints, bladder scans, specimen collections, and patient transport.

• Reports equipment malfunctions and communicates effectively with other departments.

• Establishes professional and respectful relationships.

• Contributes to unit activities like responding to call lights, passing meal trays, and transporting patients.

• Receives feedback constructively and communicates learning needs.

• Improves knowledge, skills, and performance; participates in self-review.

• Communicates clearly with the healthcare team and understands cultural diversity and workplace safety.

• Provides patient care, assists with therapies, and reports patient status changes.

• Instructs patients and families under RN direction; manages patient restraints.

• Adheres to patient care policies and safety procedures.

• Documents in medical records and completes clerical functions as needed.

• Performs advanced skills like phlebotomy, IV removal, Foley catheter removal, arrhythmia monitoring, 12-lead EKGs, and NG tube management based on department needs.

• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent

• 1 year of general healthcare experience, or 6 months experience as UPMC Nursing Assistant/CNA with PCT competency achieved within 120 days of hire/transfer/promotion, or completion of at least 1 nursing program clinical rotation.

• Successful completion of UPMC Patient Care Technician class upon hire. Successful completion of basic information system training.

• Microcomputer experience preferred. Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

• Access to medications is limited to distribution to the nurse

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal within 90 days of hire or transfer

• Act 33 with renewal

• Act 34 with renewal

• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

• ACLS preferred

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

If you would like to discuss this opportunity with a Recruiter for Hamot Inpatient Nursing and Nursing Support, reach out to Jill Schlosser at schlosserj4@upmc.edu