Patient Care Technician

Posted: 12-Mar-26

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Categories: Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 274894

• Welcomes patients, families, and visitors to the unit
• Directs patients, families, and visitors to and from the waiting areas
• Routinely check with patients and families to meet their comfort needs
• Assist with the nourishment needs of patients per nursing instruction
• Set up activities at bedside to assist with patient comfort, i.e., video games, toys, etc.
• Facilitate transfer process, i.e., supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Facilitate discharge process, i.e., supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Respond to patient call lights
• Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity when providing care and interacting with patients and families
• Stock bedside carts and blanket warmers
• Clean and prepare bays before and after patients have occupied
• Maintain supplies and orderliness of nutrition areas
• Assure availability and operation of equipment
• Monitor numbers and availability of unit specific equipment and order as necessary
• Clean stretchers, cribs, wheelchairs, and children's toys with Virex or Bleach per protocol
• Organize and place crib, stretcher, and wheelchairs to their designated slots as assigned by charge nurse
• Deliver stretchers or cribs to CT, MRI, and Nuclear Medicine when requested
• Assure that all patient beds, cribs, and stretchers are equipped with an oxygen tank for transports
• Transport or assist transportation of patients from inpatient unit to preop area: gather supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Transport or assist transportation of patients from PACU to inpatient units: gather supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Assist transport of patients from PACU Phase 2 to 2nd floor lobby
• Transport patients to off-site procedural areas i.e., UH Nuclear Medicine, CT, MRI UH OR/PACU
• Transport STAT blood samples from Mott preop/PACU to lab in UH when tube system is down
• Perform delegated clinical or laboratory procedures
• Monitor, set up and maintain the operations of clinical equipment.
• May monitor patient status, record and document vital signs.
• Stock and maintain inventory of specialized areas.
• May transport patients to and from designated locations.
• May assist with admitting and discharge procedures.
• May administer medications.
• Process patient care orders using the electronic ordering system may be required in certain areas.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Requirements:

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and write
• Recent experience in an unlicensed assistive role in a patient care setting
• Demonstrated communication skills both written and verbal.
• Basic computer skills
• Course work in an Allied Health field

40 hours per week; 4: 10-hour shifts; 6:00am-4:30pm or 8:00am-6:30pm.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires moderate standing/walking, as well as lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring of patients.