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The UPMC Presbyterian Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) is searching for Nursing Assistant and Patient Care Technicians to join the team! If you're looking to establish a fulfilling, hands-on health care career while elevating the patient experience, then this could be the perfect fit for you!

The UPMC Presbyterian EMU is a 10-bed unit, primarily caring for patients admitted for diagnostic confirmation of seizure disorders.

• Patient Monitoring: Patients are admitted for continuous monitoring, equipped with video and EEG (electroencephalogram) equipment to capture brain activity and any seizures that occur. Nurses also manage patients post-placement of subdural grids and SEEGs.

• Seizure Observation: The primary goal is to induce seizures in a controlled environment, allowing doctors to observe the seizures as they happen, which helps in diagnosing the type and focus of the epilepsy.

• Multidisciplinary Team: The EMU typically includes neurologists, epileptologists, neuropsychologists, nurses, neurodiagnostic technicians, and other healthcare professionals who collaborate on patient care. Based on the monitoring results, personalized treatment plans are implemented, which may include medication adjustments, lifestyle changes, or surgical options.

Nursing Support roles are required to work rotating shifts, which include daylight, evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts. Nursing Assistants and Patient Care Technicians will also be required to work 12-hour shifts, with a possibility of a combination of 8-hour and 12-hour shifts.

All hired candidates will complete a mandatory training course. Those without direct patient care experience will attend the weekday, daylight training program. A one-day training is available on Saturdays for those who have completed a clinical rotation in a hospital or have specific transferable in-patient/hospital experience.

Apply online today to join our unit!

Responsibilities:

• Must routinely perform the UPMC nursing core nursing assistant responsibilities, including ADLs (bathing, feeding, transporting, toileting, ambulating, and turning and repositioning patients), PLUS point of care testing (inc. blood glucose), weights, vital signs, I&O, telemetry monitor application/reapplication, HAC & PSI prevention (TEDs/SCDs), and clean catch/mini catheter urine collection. In addition, simple dressings, 12 lead EKG, bladder scan, all specimen collections.

• Ensures equipment malfunctions are reported to the appropriate department.

• Establishes professional and respectful interpersonal relationships.

• Contributes to the universal unit activities including, but not limited to, responding to call lights and telephones, passing meal trays, and transporting patients.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the health care team.

• Demonstrate understanding of cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in the health professions.

• Cares for patients and self by supporting safety in the workplace.

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by demonstrating accountability for actions, enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues.

• Provides patient care, including assisting with patient procedures and activities of daily living.

• Assists with physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies.

• Provides feedback to the RN regarding patient care and reports changes in patient status.

• Provides instruction to patients and their families under the direction of the RN.

• May apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as per physician or hospital protocol.

• Strictly adheres to all policies and procedures relative to patient care and hospital-related information.

• Complies with safety policies and procedures, including standard precautions.

• Documents in the medical record according to established procedures.

• Performs assigned work in a timely and productive manner.

• Completes department clerical functions, as needed.

Nursing Support Career Ladder

Our goal at UPMC is to help you build YOUR career, starting with our robust career ladder! A Nursing Support career at UPMC Presbyterian maximizes your potential and advances you to wherever you’d like to go, ensuring that you are equipped with resources, mentors, and leadership along the way. Our career ladder includes Nursing Assistant > Patient Care Technician > Patient Care Technician, Senior/Specialist > Lead Patient Care Technician.

Job title and salary will be based upon qualifications and career ladder requirements.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.

• Successful completion of UPMC Nursing Assistant, or Patient Care Technician, or EIC training program.

• Knowledge of body mechanics and transfer techniques.

• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), or Paramedic, or current enrollment in an EMT or Paramedic program preferred.

• Access to medications is limited to the distribution of the medication to the nurse.