Patient Care Technician

• 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
• Stock and maintain inventory of specialized areas.
• 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
• May assist with admitting and discharge procedures
• Process patient care orders using the electronic ordering system may be required in certain areas
• Perform other related duties as assigned

• High school diploma, GED or 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

Two- 10 hr. shifts per week - 6am-430pm or 8am-630pm

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.