Patient Care Technician I TDCJ 2A Infirmary (Days or Nights)

Job Title

To provide basic technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas.

Minimum Qualifications:

High school or equivalent AND completion of one of the following technical programs:

Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant program

OR

Completion of a Medical Assistant program

OR

Completion of Medical Corpsman program

OR

Completion of EMT program

OR

Completion of a UTMB Hospital Aide Training Program

OR

Two (2) years of experience in a direct patient care environment

OR

Is enrolled in a recognized School of Nursing and has completed the first semester of education which contains clinical concepts and health assessment or the equivalent.

Job Duties:

• Collects, reports, and documents data: Vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
• Obtains blood samples by venipuncture.
• Acquires 12 lead EKG.
• Performs and reports POCT.
• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient's plan of care.
• Provides for patients' personal hygiene: Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning and superficial wound care, assists with chronic wound care, provides skincare for a patient with TED hose, SCD, casts, skeletal pins, assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient, cares for the patient with a urinary catheter, assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care.
• Assists with feeding.
• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.
• Assists with patient safety related to age and condition
• Assists with patient restraints and patient-specific safety precautions
• Collects, reports, and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and unusual patient and family behavior
• Cares for the patient from a correctional environment.
• Always maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records.
• Provides and maintains a clean, safe environment and performs and/or assists others to perform proper aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures.
• Documents as appropriate.
• Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies.
• Assists with patient requests for other hospital services.

Preferred Qualifications:

Epic proficient

Salary Range:

Actual salary commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule:

To be determined by manager and usually 12 hour shifts 7 a.m.-7 p.m. or 7 p.m.- 7 a.m.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.