Per Diem Patient Care Tech, Behavioral Health - Pennsylvania Hospital

Description

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Penn Medicine Pennysylvania Hospital Psych Unit is seeking a Per Diem Patient Care Tech!

Patient Care Technician delivers patient care that is patient and family centered. Incorporates team focused, collegial relationships to ensure patient safety and improve outcomes. Maintains organizational competencies of superior quality care, critical thinking and interpersonal skills. Demonstrates accountability to the patient, family, self and the healthcare team. Provides superior quality care and assumes responsibility and accountability for their role in performance outcomes while supporting Pennsylvania Hospital's Relationship Based Care Model.

This position provides support across all Behavioral Health units at Pennsylvania Hospital. A description of each unit is listed below.

Responsibilities:

• Gather information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities.
• Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
• Timely notification and escalation of data or clinical data/information
• Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
• Demonstrates support of quality and safety measures in the work environment, e.g., demonstrated support of the unit's Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) goals
• Demonstrates a genuine care for the patient, e.g., active listening and responding, gentle approach to providing care, knock then identify yourself before entering a patient's space, provide timely information to patients in a caring manner; ensure an individualized approach to care to include cultural sensitivities, anticipate patent needs based on dialogue and observation
• Demonstrate safe patient handling skills, proper hand hygiene
• Ensure actions and behaviors demonstrate their support in creating a positive, caring and healing patient environment
• Consistently focus on improving the patient experience
• Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising. Assist patient in their independence (when appropriate), preserving the patient's dignity while providing care.
• Active participation in daily RN/Patient Care Tech handoffs and unit huddles
• Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
• Collecting and recording vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
• Demonstrates flexibility/change in assignments based on patient acuity and unit needs

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor of Arts of Science from an accredited program in an area of human services
• H.S. Diploma/GED (Required) plus two (2) years of direct care experience in the human service field or completion of 12 credits in an accredited program in an area of human services or nursing

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