Full Time Patient Care Technician - Passavant ED

Full-Time Patient Care Technician, Senior

ANCC Magnet designated UPMC Passavant is currently hiring a Full-Time Patient Care Technician, Senior to support our Emergency Department at the McCandless location. The Patient Care Technician, Senior is a valued step in the UPMC Inpatient Patient Care Support Career Ladder, with opportunities for continued growth and advancement. Title and salary will be determined based upon education and patient care experience.

Responsibilities:

Contributes to the universal unit activities including, but not limited to:

• Responding to call lights and telephones
• Passing meal trays and transporting patients.

Must routinely perform the UPMC core nursing assistant responsibilities including:

• ADLs (bathing, feeding, transporting, toileting, ambulating, turning and repositioning patients
• Point of care testing (inc. blood glucose)
• Weights & vital signs
• I&O
• Telemetry monitor application/reapplication
• HAC & PSI prevention (TEDs/SCDs)
• Simple dressings
• Placement and removal of restraints
• 12 lead EKG
• Bladder scan
• All specimen collections
• IV catheter removal and Foley catheter removal

Demonstrates the following:

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the health care team
• Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships internally and externally
• Accountability for actions
• Enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment to patients and colleagues

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must also have either:
• 2 years of healthcare experience, OR
• 1 year of experience and enrollment in PT/OT/PA program with completion of at least one clinical rotation, or
• 1 year of experience and completion of a bachelor's degree in a health sciences field.
• Annual completion of a professional contribution to be determined after hire
• Successful completion of patient care technician senior class
• Successful completion of basic information system training.
• Microcomputer experience preferred.
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
• Nursing Student that has completed one clinical rotation preferred Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Paramedic or currently enrolled in an EMT or Paramedic program preferred.
• Successful completion of a basic arrhythmia course and annual competency required.
• May, in the course of their duties, be in rooms where medications are stored or may transport medications when they transport patients. Transportation of medication is limited from one department to another.

Licensure/Certification/Clearances:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• 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
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.