Patient Care Tech - Pediatrics (PRN)

Description

Since opening in 1998 as the first and only hospital in San Antonio and South Texas designed and built just for children, Methodist Children’s Hospital has set the standard for treating the children of South and Central Texas. The hospital continues to lead the region in treating severely ill children, those with complex and chronic medical diagnoses, by providing the most sub-specialized care available. Our new tower is part of a landmark expansion which will increase the footprint of the Methodist Hospital campus by 445,000 square feet.

The new tower includes 150 rooms and a dedicated children’s imaging department with new, state-of-the art technology. The 94-bed neonatal intensive care unit, still the region’s largest, has board-certified neonatologists in-house 24/7 and is the city’s only Texas Department of Health-designated Level 4 neonatal intensive care unit. The new tower also includes 15 additional ER rooms, bringing the total to 40. Methodist Children’s Hospital has been nationally recognized by Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade A. For more information, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Children’s Hospital under Locations.

We offer you a generous benefits package including: 

• Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Paid Time Off

• Employee Discount Program

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Student Loan Repayment

General Statement of Duties:

The Patient Care Technician performs a variety of delegated basic patient care services related to common nursing functions and activities of daily living under the supervision of the registered nurse (RN) in a complementary and assistive role. He/she assists the nursing staff in providing patient care in accordance to the PCA’s training, competence and skill, hospital policies and procedures and the Texas Board of Nursing rules for delegated nursing tasks to unlicensed personnel (Rule 224.6). Consistently assists the patient care team with maintaining a clean, well organized, adequately stocked and safe patient environment.

Essential Job Functions:

1.  Under the supervision of the RN, performs delegated patient care activities as directed and ordered in accordance with one’s training. Delegated tasks may include: Obtaining vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, calorie counts, and/or simple non-sterile dressing changes
2. Safe patient handling: Turning and positioning, use of specialty beds, patient transfer and use of transfer devices, ambulation assistance and use of assistive devices, restraint alternatives, oxygen use and transport, suction use, pre-operative skin preparation and/or use of sequential compression devices (SCD)




3. Specimen collection, including blood collection for bedside glucose testin




4. Consistently assists with maintaining a safe patient environment, including:

   
   

   1. Addressing identified hazards in the physical environment of the patient room to prevent patient falls.

   
   

   2. Hand hygiene and consistent use of standard precautions.

   
   

   3. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) as appropriate following transmission based precautions procedures.




5. Communicates accurate information for delegated patient care activities performed, including observed patient response to performed activities to the assigned RN (following hand-off communication guidelines).




6. Assists the RN in collecting data from patients upon admission and assists with patient transfer or discharge preparations as instructed. 




7. Assists patients with bathing, shaving, oral care, toileting, grooming, changing linens, providing water, assisting with meal delivery, and feeding.  




8. Performs hourly rounding, consistently uses AIDET when interacting with patients, and responds to call lights timely.

Qualifications

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