Patient Care Tech/Patient Service Assistant, Med Surg (Nursing Assistant)

PCT

Other duties may be assigned.

1. Must be courteous to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
2. Takes and records patients' vital signs. Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages.
3. Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
4. Observes patients and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in charge.
5. Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intermuscular injection, and notes time and amount on patients' charts.
6. Assembles and uses such equipment as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
7. Collects samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum, from patients for testing and performs routine laboratory tests on samples.
8. Sterilizes equipment and supplies.
9. Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds patients. Records food and fluid intake and output.
10. Bathes, dresses, and assists patients in walking and turning.
11. Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers patients' calls.
12. Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
13. Assists in delivery, care, and feeding of infants.
14. Inventories and requisitions supplies.
15. Performs tracheotomy care, colostomy care, wound care and dressing changes.
16. Demonstrates through clinical practice the use of universal precautions, understands the OSHA Blood-borne Pathogens Standards.
17. Demonstrates a thorough knowledge and/or practice in the prevention of TB transmission and adheres to all other infection control policies.
18. Must wear facility provided identification badge at all times.

PSA

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Must be courteous to patients, customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
2. Identify and locate needed accessories to facilitate transport.
3. Answering call lights.
4. Making beds both empty and occupied.
5. Setting up all equipment routinely used on their home base units.
6. Preparing room for admission.
7. Assist with patient discharges
8. Removal of linens.
9. Answering telephone.
10. Must wear facility provided identification badge.
11. Consistently provides service excellence to all patients, family member, visitors, volunteers, and co-workers.
12. Facilitate communication to RNs to provide best care possible for patients
13. Performs other work-related duties and activities as assigned or requested by his/her immediate supervisor.

Additional PATIENT SERVICE ASSISTANT PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Transports patients via wheelchairs and stretchers.
2. Vital signs, oxygen saturation, weights, and non-invasive specimen collection.
3. Turning and positioning patients, range of motion, ambulation, and toiletry.
4. Assistance with all ADL's and complete care as needed.
5. Setting up, assisting and educating patients, with commodes, bedpans, urinals, sitz baths, walkers, wheelchairs, slings, venodyne boots, crutches, specific precautions- with input from PT as needed
6. Appropriate emptying and/or recording of all drainage devices.
7. Postmortem care.

Patient Care Tech - Grade 7

• High School diploma or equivalent.  CNA. 
• 6 months experience in a health care setting
• Reads, writes, understands English
• Must have taken the EKG course.
• BLS
• Phlebotomy

Patient Service Assistant - Grade FHS5A

• Ability to read, write and communication in English
• Possess a High school Diploma or equivalent (GED)
• Must meet at least one of the following qualifications:
  1. Completed a Nursing Assistant Program
  2. Completed an EMT Program
  3. Completed an LPN Program
  4. Completed at least one year of an accredited Nursing School Program
  5. Equivalent clinical Military experience
• Possess a Current Basic Life Support Certification
• Obtain CPI Certification within 6 months from hire and must maintain recertification annually.
• Successfully pass the Falmouth Hospital written competency exam for PSA.