About this role
Join UPMC Presbyterian's Medical Telemetry Team!
- Nursing Assistants/Patient Care Technicians: Full-Time at 36 hours a week rotating day/night shifts, including weekend shifts
- Unit: 12 North Medicine Telemetry
About 12 North:
- 24 bed medicine telemetry unit with diverse patient care
Hepatology, transplant, pulmonary, infectious diseases
About the Role:
Patient Care Technicians provide routine patient care and support the department services in accordance with established policies and procedures. This role will be directed by nurses and/or physicians to ensure that the highest degree of quality patient care can be maintained at all times. Patient care duties may include, but are not limited to, ADLs (bathing, feeding, transporting, toileting, ambulating, turning and repositioning patients, and blood glucose), vital signs, simple dressings, EKGs, bladder scans, and all specimen collections.
UPMC's Nursing Support Career Ladder:
Our goal at UPMC is to help you build YOUR career, starting with our robust career ladder! A Nursing Support career at UPMC Shadyside maximizes your potential and advances you to wherever you’d like to go, ensuring that you are equipped with resources, mentors, and leadership along the way.
The UPMC Inpatient Patient Care Support Career Ladder offers opportunities for continued growth and advancement. Title and salary will be determined based upon education and patient care experience. The starting pay for a Nursing Assistant is $19.40.
Nursing Support Training:
There is a three-day training program required for all candidates who are hired without specific transferable inpatient/hospital experience or a completed nursing student clinical rotation. This training is in-person 7:30a – 4:00p (Tuesday – Thursday) of the first week of employment.
Responsibilities:
- Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
- Report equipment malfunctions to the appropriate department.
- Establish effective communication strategies and respectful relationships.
- Contribute to universal unit activities (e.g., responding to call lights, passing meal trays, transporting patients)
- Receive feedback constructively and identify learning needs.
- Improve knowledge, skills, and performance.
- Communicate effectively with the healthcare team.
- Demonstrate cultural understanding and safety awareness.
- Perform nursing core responsibilities for nursing assistants (ADLs, point-of-care testing, vital signs, etc.).
- Provide direct patient care as directed by RN.
- Maintain a safe patient environment.
- Distribute supplies and equipment.
Document in medical records and comply with safety policies.
- Successful completion of UPMC nursing assistant or EIC training program or Successful completion of UPMC patient care technician class.
- Knowledge of body mechanics and transfer techniques.
- Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) preferred.
- Access to medications is limited to the distribution of the medication to the nurse.
- Nursing Assistant:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Patient Care Technician:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 1 year of healthcare experience, OR completion of at least one clinical rotation as part of a nursing or PT/OT/PA program or related health care training, OR completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in a health sciences field.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Patient Care Technician - Senior:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 2 years of healthcare experience, OR 1 year of experience plus completion of at least one clinical rotation as part of a nursing or PT/OT/PA program or related health care training, OR 1 year of experience and completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in a health sciences field.
- Annual completion of a professional contribution to be determined after hire.
- Successful completion of Senior training class.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- ACLS preferred
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
- Act 34
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Other facts
About UPMC
UPMC is a world-renowned, nonprofit health care provider and insurer committed to delivering exceptional, people-centered care and community services. Headquartered in Pittsburgh and affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC is shaping the future of health through clinical and technological innovation, research, and education. Dedicated to advancing the well-being of our diverse communities, we provide nearly $2 billion annually in community benefits, more than any other health system in Pennsylvania. Our 100,000 employees — including more than 5,000 physicians — care for patients across more than 40 hospitals and 800 outpatient sites in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland, as well as overseas. UPMC Insurance Services covers more than 4 million members, providing the highest-quality care at the most affordable price. To learn more, visit UPMC.com.
What you'll do
- Patient Care Technicians provide routine patient care and support department services under the direction of nurses or physicians, performing duties such as ADLs, vital signs, simple dressings, and specimen collection. Responsibilities also include maintaining a safe patient environment, documenting in medical records, and contributing to universal unit activities like responding to call lights.
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