Join UTMB Health as a Patient Care Technician II in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at our Galveston location, working the night shift. In this role, you will provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to critically ill pediatric patients while serving as a leader and mentor for your assigned unit.
Clinical Setting
You will work in a pediatric intensive care environment, providing care to children with complex medical needs. The position operates on a night shift schedule.
Responsibilities
- Collect, report, and document patient data including vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, and pulse oximetry
- Collect patient specimens and obtain blood samples by venipuncture
- Acquire 12-lead EKGs
- Perform and report point-of-care testing (POCT)
- Assist with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse or designee
- Provide patient personal hygiene including bathing, oral suctioning, superficial wound care, and assistance with elimination
- Care for incontinent patients and patients with urinary catheters
- Assist with cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and ostomy care
- Assist with patient feeding
- Ambulate, position, and turn patients; care for patients with altered mobility
- Assist with patient admission, transfer, and discharge
- Prepare patients for examinations and procedures; assist with patient treatments
- Provide age and condition-appropriate patient safety measures
- Assist with patient restraints and maintain patient-specific safety precautions
- Report and document data related to patient needs, emergencies, and unusual patient or family behavior
- Care for patients from correctional environments
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality
- Maintain clean, safe patient care environments and perform or assist with aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures
- Maintain appropriate supplies in patient care areas
- Assist with patient requests for other hospital services
- Participate in one leadership activity per fiscal year
- Perform video monitoring duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent
- One year of hospital experience
- Completion of one of the following: recognized Nurse Assistant program, Medical Corpsman program, EMT program, or enrollment in a recognized School of Nursing with completion of the first semester containing clinical concepts and health assessment or equivalent
- Documentation of completion of 2 or more of the following: Emergency Dispatch, POCT test site manager, cross-training to HUC duties, Patient Care Assistant trainer, unit audits (1 per month per unit/department manager), cast placement, high-level disinfection, delivery table setup, minor operating procedure setup and assistance, area-specific diagnostic procedure setup and assistance, language assistance, burn tub room duties (including splint applications, pressure wrapping, burn dressing preparation and application, and biobrane/transcyte application assistance), or INQN, IDERAD, PACS system resource/user experience
- BLS certification
Compensation
Salary is commensurate with experience.
