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UPMC Hamot is hiring a full-time Patient Care Technician to join the team on 4 Medical Respiratory Intermediate unit If youu2019re passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today Previous patient care experience required. _Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience._ Responsibilities: - Assist with patient procedures and ADLs, support physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies, provide feedback to RN and report changes in patient status. - Perform core nursing assistant tasks: blood glucose monitoring, weights, vital signs, I&O, specimen collections, Foley care, plus at least four additional tasks (phlebotomy, 12-lead EKG, simple dressing, Foley catheter removal, point of care testing, bladder scan, straight catheter, IV catheter removal). - Report equipment malfunctions, communicate effectively with other departments, maintain professional and respectful relationships. - Respond to call lights and telephones, pass meal trays, transport patients. - Receive and act on feedback, identify and communicate learning needs, participate in self-review. - Provide instruction to patients and families under RN direction, apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as per protocol. - Communicate clearly with healthcare team, understand cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions, support workplace safety. - Follow all patient care and hospital policies, comply with safety policies and standard precautions. - Suggest and support departmental changes, assume responsibility for assignments, support department projects and quality initiatives. - Document in medical records as per procedures, perform clerical functions as needed. - Achieve and maintain competency in advanced skills based on department need (phlebotomy/venipuncture, peripheral IV removal, indwelling Foley catheter removal, basic arrhythmia, 12-lead EKG, NG tubes clamping and removal). I hope this is what you were looking for Let me know if you need any further adjustments.