Patient Care Technician- Duke University Hospital- Adult Sleep Lab

 Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 1,048 licensed inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 65 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; a separate hospital outpatient surgical department with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. For 2021-2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke University Hospital nationally in 11 adult specialties: cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose & throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecology, neurology & neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also ranked first in North Carolina and first in the Raleigh-Durham area. Inaddition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

Summary

 

Duke University Hospital- Adult Sleep Lab is seeking to hire a patient care technician. The patient care technician will perform a variety of specialized technical and supportive patientcare activities to assist medical professional personnel in diagnostic, therapeutic and research procedures. This position would be clinical setting up patients with home sleep tests, and helping with administrative things such as answering phone calls, communicating with external MD offices.

 

Work Schedule

 

Monday-Friday. 9a-5:30p

 

Work Performed

 

Patient care technician will determine, prepare and set up medical supplies and equipment for diagnostic, therapeutic and research procedures. Confer with patients to obtain information for chart and laboratory records, explain procedures, allay fears and elicit cooperation; ensure completion of patients' laboratory tests prior to examination by physician. Prepare patients for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to include obtaining specimens, taking vital signs and measurements, positioning patients and attaching equipment leads to specific body locations.

 

Assist physicians and nursing personnel during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to include handling instruments, calling out equipment readings and administering oxygen and opaque dyes; alert physician to patient discomfort. Operate equipment such as polygraphs, magnetic and video tape recorders and X-ray machines to monitor and obtain recordings of specific body functions; calculate, compile and record data obtained from graphs and numerical readings. Operate manual and automatic laboratory equipment to make qualitative and quantitative analyses of specimens. Calibrate and perform routine maintenance on equipment to ensure proper functioning; clean and sterilize instruments, supplies and equipment. Maintain inventory of supplies; reorder as required. Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein

 

Minimum Qualifications

 

Education

Work requires completion of a related 1 year technical school program.

 

Experience

Work generally requires two years of experience in health care specialties related to the specific position; two years additional years’ related experience may be substituted for the technical school.

 

Or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience
 

Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

N/A

 

 

 

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