"What are Patient Care Technician typical job duties? Patent Care Job Description
PCT’s work under the supervision of nursing or medical staff to provide basic patient care, including Assisting with patient care, planning and assessments including – recording vital signs, height, weight, input output, collect and test specimens, report and record patients condition and patient treatments. Help patient with nutritional needs - check deliver food trays, assist with feeding the patient if necessary, and refill water and ice. Assist patients with their mobility - turn and positioning, do range of motion exercises, transferring patients to and from wheelchair, assist with ambulation. To become a patient care technician specialized training is required.
Many students use the PCT training and knowledge as a stepping stone to further they medical career and become a LVN Licensed Vocational Nurse or RN registered nurse.
Clinical job duties of the Patient Care Assistant may include: Discontinuation of IV’s, Clean and Irrigate lacerations Set up Rapid Infusor, Heptafiler Setup. Answer phones Locate equipment and Transport Non Critical Patients and Assist with Critical Patients. Foley Catheters Dressing Changes and Feed patients assist with Comfort Measures / Safety Measures. Attend to the Psyche patients and Escort patients to treatment areas, Clean Rooms, Collect specimens, Chest Tube Setups Relieve MR’s, Clinitech Documentation and collection Change Sharp boxes and O2. Decontamination procedures EKG’s, Assist with O2 delivery Clean Instruments and Post-Mortem Care. Copy charts for admissions Splint Assistance, Suction, Crutch Walking Instructions and Adjustments take Vital Signs and Assist with Pelvic Exams perform Phlebotomy.
The PCT provides basic nursing care on assigned patients as delegated by the RN ,LVN or LPN and completes other duties as required."
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