Patient care technicians provide basic patient care and assist nurses and doctors who depend on them as a valued part of the healthcare team. Job satisfaction can come from knowing that you may be able to help people during a difficult time in their life. Home health services help adults, seniors, and pediatric clients who are recovering after a hospital or facility stay, or need additional support to remain safely at home and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. These Medicare-certified services may include short-term nursing, rehabilitative, therapeutic, and assistive home health care.
Recording patient temperature, respiration and blood pressure
Taking an EKG
Applying support stocking (TED hose)
Measuring body fluids input/output
Walking patients
Turning or repositioning bed-bound patients
Changing linens and clothing
Obtaining blood specimens per doctor’s orders
Transporting patients to physical therapy, x-ray or other treatment sessions.
The Role of a Patient Care Technicians.
Patient care provide basic care to people in hospitals, acute and long term care facilities, hospices and home health settings. Patient care technicians also record information and report any changes in a patient’s condition that may affect their recovery or current medical condition. They help patients bath, eat, dress and brush their teeth. Patient care technicians work together with medical staff to ensure the needs of their patients are met.
Job Responsibilities.
A typical day of a patient care technician may begin with helping patients get up in the morning. The setting in which you work will have its own rhythm and schedules, so your routine may not be exactly like this but may very similar. As a patient care technician, you may help someone shower, dress and eat their breakfast. You may also help deliver and collect meal trays and assist nurses with orienting new patients. Some others include:
Skills Needed for Patient Care Technicians.
The most basic requirement is compassion and a genuine desire to help people. Other skills you will use frequently are recording vital signs, updating patient charts, reading and following doctor’s instructions on a patient’s care plan (understanding medical terminology and anatomy), estimating percentages of patient meals consumed, listening to and communicating patient concerns to other medical staff, reasoning and critical thinking, following safety practices and procedures, using medical and diagnostic equipment and performing some routine office procedures.
Patient Care Taker Services.
