Patient Care Tech - Acute
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SUMMARY:
Provides direct and indirect patient care activities under direct supervision of the Licensed Practical Nurse and the Registered Nurse. Assists patients with activities of daily living, providing for personal care, comfort, and assistance when necessary. Works cooperatively with other employees.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Includes the following, but is not limited to any other duties or tasks that may be assigned:
- bedside nursing care
- care of the patient’s unit
- food service
- handling equipment and supplies
- answer the patient’s call light
- report all useful information to nurse
- assist in admission, transfer, and discharge of patients
- patient heights and weights
- feeding patients
- bathing patients
- measuring and recording of intake and output
- collect specimens
- make patient beds
- lift and transfer patients
- observe and record information about patient’s objectively
- obtaining and recording vital signs
- proper techniques of good medical asepsis
- maintain a safe environment
- shave patients
- assist care with obstetrical patients
- safe and correct use of bedrails
- assist care of the newborn
- offer bedpans and urinals
- apply binders or ace wraps
- straighten the utility rooms
- apply warm or cold applications
- deliver fresh drinking water
- assist with pre- and post-op cares
- assist with patient positioning
- care for equipment
- give enemas
- care for patient’s skin
- back rubs
- care for the diabetic patient
- care for the cardiac patient
- care of a patient with a colostomy
- care for the patient in isolation
- care for the dying patient
- care for the patient after death
- oral care
- prepare soiled linen for laundry to take to the laundry area
- empty trash cans as needed