Patient Care Technician I Med Surg TDCJ

**Galveston, Texas, United States**

Nursing & Care Management

UTMB Health

Requisition # 2401689

To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas and serve as a leader/ mentor for the assigned unit (s).

**EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**

**Minimum Qualifications:**

High school or equivalent, one year of hospital experience AND completion of one of the following technical programs:

Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant program OR

Completion of Medical Corpsman program OR

Completion of EMT program OR

Is enrolled in a recognized School of Nursing and has completed the first semester of education which contains clinical concepts and health assessment or the equivalent

Has obtained and provided 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

Perform Unit Audits- 1 per month per unit/ department manager

Cast placement

Perform/ Assist with High-Level Disinfection

Set up of delivery tables

Set-up and assistance with minor operating procedures

Set-up and assistance with area specific diagnostic procedures

Language assistance

Burn tub room duties which includes splint applications: mouth spreaders, upper and lower extremities, positioning patients prone, application of pressure wrapping: coban ace wraps, surginet pressure garments, tubigrip/jobst garments, burn dressing preparation and application and assists in application of biobrane/transcyte

INQN, IDERAD, PACS system resource/user

**LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS OR CERTIFICATIONS**

**Required:**

BLS

**Equal Employment Opportunity**

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Compensation