Patient Care Tech - Ortho (PRN)

Description

Methodist Texsan Hospital is a full service acute care hospital specializing in cardiovascular and orthopedic services. As an advanced center for cardiac care, we are certified in chest pain and heart failure with comprehensive cardiac services including research and clinical trials. Using state-of-the-art technology such as our robotics program, our orthopedic services, including the Joint Replacement Academy and the Center for Spine, boast some of the best clinical results in the industry. Methodist Texsan Hospital’s 30 bed inpatient rehabilitation unit is the largest in the Methodist Healthcare network of hospitals and takes a team approach to providing excellent care for its patients. Our Level IV trauma emergency service is a leader in San Antonio in patient experience and efficiency and is currently undergoing a significant expansion to better serve our community. 

Methodist Texsan Hospital is licensed for 120 beds and is the first hospital in San Antonio to receive the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Chest Pain Certification. Methodist Texsan was also the first Methodist hospital to receive certification from the Joint Commission in Hip and Knee Replacement. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recognized the Intensive Care Unit at Methodist Texsan Hospital with the Silver Beacon Award for Excellence, one of only a few units in Texas to receive this award. The hospital has also been recognized by Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 3 years in a row.  For more information on how to join this amazing place to work, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Texsan 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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