Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives and we help one another to succeed.
With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning.
It's also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
A day in the life of a Patient Care Technician at Hackensack Meridian Health includes :
- Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests / patients served in assigned service
- Provide for effective and safe guest / patients outcomes through practice, judgment and critical actions
- Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status and rendered care
- Take self-directed or self-motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required in the job, acting before being required to by events, improving job performance, and / or creating new opportunities
- Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patient's plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care
- Participate in Unit / Department Performance Improvement PI activities Specific Job Functions may include but not limited to :
- Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
- Prepares the patient for assessment / admission, physical examination and procedures.
- Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients on the
- Obtains clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation and documents findings in patient record and notifies RN immediately of abnormal results.
- Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric aged patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, assure appropriate labeling and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of
- Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests
- Demonstrates a reliable and dependable ability to follow through with designated responsibilities in the collecting, labeling, and transporting of specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time : always correctly labels type of specimen collected, including patients name and room number.
- Performs EKG for patients as directed.
- Assures the presence, functionality and cleanliness of all necessary equipment. Checks and maintains code cart, O2, and other emergency medical equipment as directed.
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