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Avera Health · 4 months ago

Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Med/Surg

Aberdeen, SD

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$18/hr - $23.50/hr

Avera Health is a healthcare organization seeking a Patient Care Technician (PCT) to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing routine patient care and support services, ensuring quality care and assisting patients with various needs under the direction of nursing staff.

Health CareMedical Device

Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs. Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for

Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff

Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed

Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies

Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients

Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms

Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care

Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death

Manages interdepartmental and patient mail

Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks

Qualification

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)DiplomaCompassionTeamworkCommunication

Required

The individual must be able to work the hours specified

Must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties

Ability to communicate effectively with others

Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds

Commitment to the daily application of Avera's mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community

Promote Avera's values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship

Uphold Avera's standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity

Maintain confidentiality

Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment

Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable

Preferred

High School or GED Equivalent High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Company

Avera Health

Avera Health, an integrated health system based in Sioux Falls, SD, is committed to making a positive impact in the health and wellness of persons and communities.

Founded in 1897