Patient Care Technician

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How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations, and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research, and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally, and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components: patient care, education, and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Why Join Michigan Medicine

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the worlds most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective on your very first day
• 21 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities

Observation Monitoring Obtains vital signs, temperature, height, length, weight, oxygen saturation, and pain scores, and reports abnormal values to RN. Obtains other measurements, i.e., head circumference, abdominal girth, per unit standard. Responds to monitor alarms based on unit training and competencies. Alarms should be silenced or paused prior to an activity that will trigger an alarm, such as bathing, drawing blood, or getting a patient out of bed, as delegated by RN. Ensures that alarms are on when activity is completed and/or before leaving the patient.

Measures and records intake and output. Functions as a sitter. Assists physician/provider during diagnostic procedures, assists and supports patient before and during procedures, assists in specimen collection. Applies and changes ECG electrodes and pulse ox probe, attaches patient to travel ECG and A-line monitor. Places monitor strips on inpatient records.

Specimen Collection

Performs point of care testing, maintains and calibrates equipment and supplies. Collects blood specimens from arterial CVP and PIC lines. Collects specimens, including urine, stool, sputum, and swabs, and performs urine determination, including sugar, acetone, specific gravity, protein, pH. Performs finger-heel stick blood collection and chemstick test. Initiates, maintains, and records 24-hour urine collection. Transports blood and laboratory specimens.

Intravenous Lines

Discontinues peripheral IVs. Removes peripheral IV dressings. Primes peripheral IV without additives and central-pressure heparin set-ups after bag spiked by RN, times, and dates bag and tubing per policy.

Patient ADLs

Assists patients with or administers routine personal hygiene, including baths, oral care, skin care, umbilical cord, and circumcision care. Performs preventative skin care, pre-operative, pre-ops, perineal care. Provides toileting, bedpan, urinal, remove, empty, foley catheters, weighs diapers. Accompanies escorts, ambulates, moves, turns, dangles, lifts, transports, and attends to patients.

Assists with range of motion, applies rehabilitation equipment, releases, and applies devices, i.e., wheelchair, seatbelt, adaptive equipment, etc., in accordance with specific instructions to position patients to limit movements. Provides patient nourishment by performing such duties as passing and collecting trays, providing snacks, beverages, assists with ordering meals, snacks, feeds patients.

Tube Feedings

Perform tube feedings of patients at the direction of the RN and after the RN has established placement just prior to each tube feeding, e.g., Change tube feeding bag, prime line, and set rate after notifying RN, refill tube feeding bag as indicated per infection control guidelines, and after verifying correct tube feeding to be administered.

Urinary Catheters

Performs intermittent sterile urinary catheterizations. Performs clean urinary catheterizations, Pediatrics only, waiting for data. Connects drains and disconnects urinary catheters. Assembles intermittent bladder irrigation supplies. Discontinues urinary catheters. Applies condom catheter. Determines bladder status with Bladder Scanner.

Enemas

Administers cleansing enemas that do not contain medication. Applies external Fecal Incontinence Device bags.

Wound Care

Cleanses and redresses non-sterile wounds. Performs simple sterile dressing changes, as in central line dressings. Assists RN with complex dressing changes. Cares for permanent drainage sites and applies appropriate collection device, i.e., ostomy, G-tube, etc. Applies binders, ACE wraps, hot and cold applications, provides soaks, and special baths.

Respiratory Care

Assist with tracheostomy care on stable tracheotomies, including such duties as cleaning and redressing area, assists with tape and tie changes. Performs endotracheal/tracheostomy tube suctioning after assessment by RN of patient stability. Provides ventilation to the intubated/trached patient with an Ambu bag. Assists with Endotracheal tube care and tape changes. Assists with P&PD by holding the patient. Measures and records chest tube drainage. Sets-up Pleurevac checks Pleurevac water levels and notifies RN prn.

Other Interventions

Measures and obtains TED hose applies Sequential Compression Devices. Performs post-mortem care and transports deceased patients to the morgue/pathology. Responds to call lights and alarms, answer unit telephone, and relay messages prn. Empties and measures drainage collection and emesis. Assists RN with admissions, discharges, and transfers. Provide skin care at the direction of the RN, applying select topical emollients containing medication, i.e., cortisones, tar, silvidine, butt cream, and dermatology lotions. Initiates emergency care utilizing the ABCs - Airway Breathing Circulation. Transports materials, supplies, medications, specimens, patient belongings, equipment, and medical records. Performs patient care, comfort-safety rounds per unit, routine. Assists with application and maintains restraints. Documents care provided. Performs 12-lead ECG.

Stocks supplies and equipment in patient care spaces. Sets up patient rooms for admission or procedure. Makes up beds with linen, changes bed linens, and linen hamper during patient stay. Maintains orderliness of the patient room and unit, including equipment, cords, linen, trash, patient belongings, etc. Cleans and maintains inventory and outdates of equipment and supplies in patient care spaces. Clean assigned equipment and areas of work. Obtains, opens, and arranges sterile instruments and supplies for specific procedures. Clean packs, sterilizes, and stores instruments. Checks emergency equipment. Performs clerical duties prn.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
• Ability to read and write
• One of the following:
• 6 months experience in skilled long-term facility, acute care hospital, or
• Enrolled in a nursing program and have completed fundamentals of nursing course
• OR
• 1 year experience in short-term care facility, i.e., rehab
• Completion of a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) program
• Must be able to perform a wide range of physical activities, which include moving, transporting, and positioning patients and equipment, as well as constantly positioning self to provide patient care and related duties.

Desired Qualifications

• Completion of a Certified Nurse Aide or Certified Medical Assistant program
• Basic computer skills course work in an Allied Health field.

Work Schedule

• 36 hours per week, three 12-hour shifts
• Combination of Day and Night shifts with weekend and holiday rotation.

Work Locations

• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Stroke Inpatient Unit in Kahn Pavilion

Modes of Work

• Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department.
• Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time and for any reason throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Union Affiliation

• This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

Background Screening

• Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background screenings.
• Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.
• Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

• Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.
• The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting.
• This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

• The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.