Multi Skilled Technician (Flexible Staffing Unit) - DAYS

Overview

Float Pool: The independence to seek out and discover new specialties and patient experiences in your nursing career awaits you at CentraState Medical Center. The Float Pool provides a way to gain broad exposure to a variety of patients on our highly specialized units. Partner with your staffing coordinator to design a schedule that meets your lifestyle, while playing the important extra hands role on a unit. Our Float Pool Nurses are welcomed and feel the satisfaction of providing help for healthcare teams practicing compassionate and quality patient care.

 

CentraState Medical Center has an employment opportunity available for a Multi Skilled Technician Float Pool (MLT). The Multi Skilled Technician (MLT) Multi Skilled Technician provides skilled technical assistance to licensed professionals by performing assigned duties and services required to deliver quality patient care. Follows established standards, JCAHO, and CSHS policies and procedures. A patient focused care model utilizing a multidisciplinary approach is used as the method to deliver care in the department.

Responsibilities

• Provides considerate respectful care focused upon the patient's individual need.
• Affirms the patient's right to make decisions regarding his/her medical care, including the decision to discontinue treatment, to the extent permitted by law.
• Demonstrates the ability to obtain information and interpret information in terms of the needs of the age of patients cared for.
• Successfully completes life-span education as appropriate.
• Correctly performs all scheduled and assigned tasks while continually observing patient needs.
• Accurately checks exterior of code cart each shift.
• Verbalizes/performs understanding of 1:1 precautions and documents appropriately.
• Always answers patient call lights in a timely manner.
• Provides basic nursing care, including partial and/or complete direct personal hygienic care to patients (i.e.: bathing, feeding, diversional activity) and assists patients with activities of daily living.
• Provides partial and/or complete direct personal hygienic care to patients.
• Correctly makes occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Assists with the elimination needs of the patient while providing privacy and dignity.
• Correctly feeds patients.
• Performs tasks to maintain patient mobility.
• Accurately performs simple wound care and ostomy care.
• Correctly empties drainage bags and maintains accurate intake and output documentation.
• Accurately performs incentive spirometry and pulse oximetry.
• Provides appropriate interventions for pain as directed by nurse and reports outcomes.
• Correctly sets up and maintains oxygen equipment for the Emergency Department.
• Accurately maintains feeding tubes.
• Accurately collects and documents patient data (TPR, I&O, specimen collection, height and weight) utilizing learned technical skills under the direction of the RN. Accurately documents patient data and comfort rounds in Wellsoft system.
• Accurately obtains and documents temperatures, pulses, respirations and blood pressure.
• Collects blood specimens through venipuncture and/or capillary finger stick.
• Accurately performs bedside glucose monitoring, and calibration of Accucheck and enters data.
• Retrieves blood from the Blood Bank.
• Performs post mortem care.
• Participates in preparation and intervention of diagnostic or therapeutic patient care with practitioner.
• Follows CentraState policy regarding restraint application, documentation and observation.
• Properly performs electrocardiograms.
• Performs pain (5th vital sign) screening as indicated, notifies the RN immediately of patient's report of pain or discomfort, and provides    appropriate non-pharmacologic interventions as directed by RN.
• Accurately measures and documents intake and output.
• Reports patient intake and output to nurse.

Qualifications

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience:

• One year of recent experience working as a PCT within an acute-care hospital setting
• EKG experience required
• Phlebotomy experience preferred

Certifications:

• BLS certification (American Heart Association only) required.
• Phlebotomy certification preferred.
• EKG certification preferred.
• EMT certification preferred.
• *Glucose, Phlebotomy, and EKG certifications are provided by CentraState during orientation.
• Strong professional, organizational, and interpersonal skills to effectively relate with all members of the healthcare team

About Us

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