Patient Mobility Technician – Physical Therapy, Inpatient
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $16 - $22 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Rust
About the role
- Assist with ongoing patient mobility including bed mobility/repositioning, transfers, and ambulation of hospital inpatients
- Provide emotional support to patients and their families
- Assist patients with feeding and activities of daily living, including toileting, bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Perform phlebotomy and other collection procedures appropriately and according to established procedures
- Process requisitions and enter test orders into the computer system; retrieve and print collection labels
- Receive, process and/or store specimens, centrifuging, splitting, acidifying, aliquoting, measuring and stabilizing
- Perform waived and moderate complexity testing where trained and competent
- Perform routine equipment maintenance and function checks; order and maintain supplies and inventory
- Ensure compliance with regulatory agencies and biohazard disposal as needed
- Assist clinical floor staff with stocking supplies, cleaning, patient transport and other tasks
- Greet and direct customers; promote accurate and timely unit communication; keep locator boards current
- Answer telephones, transcribe physicians orders, and process paperwork for admissions, transfers and discharges
- Maintain Medical Record completeness at discharge, correct census and bed status, and assemble patient charts
- Monitor, collect and record patient information including vital signs, weights, input/output
- Transport patients and document actions in patient record; participate in nutritional well-being and tray delivery
- Assist with activities of daily living, positioning and ambulation; report pertinent information to responsible nurse
- Insert and remove gastric and urethral tubes; perform enemas and disimpactions; remove peripheral IV lines
- Operate patient monitoring systems and perform bedside testing such as oximetry, ECG, glucometry, urinalysis
- Perform wound care and dressing changes; remove staples and sutures; assist with sterile procedures
- Apply and assist with oxygen delivery devices and restraints under RN direction
- Document all care in the patient record and use computerized documentation systems
- Deliver specimens to Laboratory, Microbiology and Pathology; transport x-rays, blood products and equipment
- Maintain cleanliness of nutrition areas, clean and store equipment, empty trash/linen/sharps, and inventory equipment
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- High School/GED
- Clinical experience OR completion of Unit Secretary course OR completion of self-study module (preferred)
- Must successfully complete competency verification before starting on assigned unit
- BLS required at time of hire