Patient Care Tech- Surgery

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Patient Care Tech- Surgery

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Patient Care Tech (PCT) assists the professional nurses by performing various patient care activities and related non- professional services necessary to meet personal and comfort needs and carry out the medical and nursing plan of care for all adolescents, adults and geriatrics

What you will do in this role:

• Assists the nurses by performing various patient care activities and related non-professional services necessary to meet personal and comfort needs and carry out the medical and nursing plan of care for all adolescents, adults and geriatrics.
• • Patient care activities are coordinated through collaboration and planning with other member of the health care team.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety and related criteria appropriate to the following age groups: adolescents, adults and geriatrics.
• Meets all physical needs of the patient in a timely manner regardless of patient assignment.
• Able to identify potential or actual victims of abuse and understands proper reporting mechanism.
• Communicates patient’s report of pain to the nursing staff.
• Assignments are carried out accurately and efficiently and clarified when necessary.
• Assists in implementing the medical and nursing plan of care by:
• • Taking vital signs accurately and documenting appropriately.
  • Providing comfort and hygiene measures in a timely manner.
  • Providing nutritional requirements in a timely manner and accurately recording intake and output.
  • Keeping the patient’s immediate environment clean and safe.
  • Keeping the staff nurse informed of patients’ conditions, response to care, and any concerns voiced.
• Performs assigned treatments:
• • Enemas and douches
  • Ice collar and aqua module
  • Ostomy care
  • Urinary catheter care and removal
  • Capillary blood sugars
  • Non-sterile dressing changes
• Demonstrates clinical knowledge and documentation when caring for suicidal/PEC’d/CEC’d patients.
• Meets the rehabilitative needs of patients as instructed by the nurse by:
• • Assisting in moving in and out of bed.
  • Assisting in positioning and repositioning while in bed to prevent skin injuries.
  • Exercising extremities.
  • Adheres to principles of safe body mechanics.
• Assume responsibility and accountability for the economical and safe utilization of supplies and ensures that discontinued equipment is removed, cleaned properly, and returned to central supply properly.
• Achieves stated goals related to job performance.
• • Educational records reveal attendance at all required educational programs/in-services.

What qualifications you will need:

• BCLS to be completed within 30 days of hire
• PCT Skills Checklist must be completed within 3 months of hire date
• 3+ Years in an acute care setting

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Rapides Regional Medical Center is a 350+ bed hospital and ER in Alexandria, Louisiana. We offer services ranging from Cancer Care to Wound Care. Our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical specialties. At Rapides Regional we believe that well-defined values are the key to nurturing staff and patient satisfaction. By joining our team you contribute to the positive culture of the hospital. This culture impacts the well-being of patients and their families. It also impacts your colleagues, and your own personal job satisfaction. Learn what our commitment to patient satisfaction, service excellence and professional expertise can do for your career.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Patient Care Tech- Surgery opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.