Overview

Join our team as a PRN Emergency Room (ER) Patient Care Tech (PCT) in Quitman, TX. 

Fulfilling your purpose begins here:

People First, Always. Here’s how we take care of our people:

• Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities. 

Your team is bigger than your department:

• UT Health Quitman offers 25 private rooms, a 24-hour Level IV trauma center and Level III stroke center, surgical suites, advanced diagnostics, swing bed care, cardiopulmonary rehab, on-site physician clinics, and a sleep lab.
• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.

Responsibilities

• Work under limited supervision of nursing and medical staff and with full proficiency to perform duties, which include assisting patients with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, eating, and other ADLs.
• Observe patients’ progress to prepare and disseminate reports to Registered Nurse or other medical staff.
• Obtain and record patients' vital signs and collect specimens for lab tests.
• Provide basic patient transport and housekeeping duties.
• Measure and record patients' intake and output and other measurements in accordance with unit routines, assist patients with range of motion, and draw blood.
• Assist in providing treatments to patients, perform technical procedures such as feeding tube and catheter administration, suture/staple removal, splinting of extremities, and perform ECGs as ordered.
• Coordinate daily activities for assigned unit to include general clerical and administrative support and participate in performance improvement activities to enhance and maintain personal and department qualifications and standards of performance.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Completion of approved PCT certification, or may be in senior year of nursing school with less than one semester to complete the nursing program.
• For Emergency room departments – completion of an approved EMT Basic certification may be substituted for PCT certification. Paramedic license may fulfill all certification requirement.
• Must maintain active certification with in the State of Texas.
• BLS – must have certification within 30 days of hire or transfer into position.

Preferred Job Requirements

• Two (2) year experience in acute care hospital or long term care facility.