Job Details
Description
Island Health is looking for an experienced Acute Care/ICU Patient Care Technician for our per diem Shift at our hospital in Anacortes, WA.
Work Schedule
Why Choose Island Health?
Benefits
Whether you’re a new grad or experienced in your field and considering a change, we invite you to explore a wide range of careers at Island Health with exceptional benefits including:
Description
Island Health is looking for an experienced Acute Care/ICU Patient Care Technician for our per diem Shift at our hospital in Anacortes, WA.
Work Schedule
- 0.1 FTE / Per Diem
- Variable
- Night Differential - $2.25
- Evening Differential - $1.65
- Weekend Differential - $1.50
Why Choose Island Health?
Benefits
Whether you’re a new grad or experienced in your field and considering a change, we invite you to explore a wide range of careers at Island Health with exceptional benefits including:
- Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Extended Illness Benefit
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability
- Vested Retirement Contribution
- Flexible Spending Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Recognition Events
- And More!
- Answers signal lights and bells to determine patients’ needs.
- Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
- Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
- Transports patients to treatment units, using wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or may assist them to walk.
- Assist with ambulation.
- Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
- Assist patients to bathroom, bedside commode, or with use of bedpan for toileting
- Tidy and clean patients’ rooms.
- Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
- Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephones.
- Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed. Reports unusual findings to nurse.
- Assists with turning and repositioning patients as needed.
- Reports to RN any abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation or other observed changes,
- Enters data into computer system.
- Places telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
- Collects urine and stool specimens for lab, runs guiac testing
- Current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification
- Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification
- 3 to 6 months previous CNA experience preferred
- High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred