New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation: Patient Care Technician

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States.

We provide essential inpatient, outpatient, and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city’s five boroughs.Sea View Hospital and Rehabilitation Center and Home is a 304-bed long term care facility located in Staten Island’s lush Greenbelt.

Serving the metropolitan area, it is easily accessible from all points by car and bus.

Like many HHC facilities, Sea View has a long history.

It opened its doors in 1913 as a sanitarium treating individuals suffering from the most feared disease of the time, tuberculosis.

Today, the hospital is well-known for its long-term care brain injury unit, the first in New York State.

Patients undergo intensive rehabilitation with the goals of restoring motor and cognitive functions andmaximizing quality of life.

Seeking a Certified Nurse’s Aide to work at a Nursing Home in Staten Island, NY.

Full time and Part-Time (22.5 hours), 3:00pm 11:30pm 2 weekends a month includes 2 week training Must be able to travel to Staten Island, NY.

Job Requirements:Under direct supervision of a Licensed Nurse or other licensed professional staff, performs activities and procedures of a non-professional nature in direct/indirect care of patients and residents, or participates as a member of a treatment, nursing, medical or health care team in implementing appropriate regimens.Assists in recreational and rehabilitation activities designed to meet the assessed need, interests and capabilities of Patients/Resident; supervises patients/residents during field trips.Observes and reports changes in patient/resident and families condition, mental state and social behavior to medical and professional staff caring for patients/residents and participates in the assessment and/or care of patients/residents and families.Assists with the physical care and personal hygiene of selected patients/residents, consisting of, but not limited to, changing simple dressings, giving enemas and taking vital signs; prepares patient/resident for meals and feeds them if necessary; turning and positioning.Escorts ambulatory patients/residents and transports non-ambulatory patients/residents by wheelchair, stretcher, bed or stretcher bed, including those with intravenous apparatuses to all departments, clinics, diagnostic and therapeutic units, religious and recreation centers, and other areas within the facility and facility’s affiliation hospital; and explains nature of trips to patients/residents.Collects and delivers specimens, charts, X-Rays, regular and emergency requisitions for diagnostic tests and treatment; and performs other messenger duties as required.Provide for comfort needs of pMients/residents and assists them with all aspects and activities of daily living.Must perform related duties as assigned by the Charge Nurse, i.E.

monitoring of resident smokers etc.Maintains clinical competence by attending continuing education programs.

Attends annual mandatory in-service training.Assists in meeting resident/family emotional needs.Measures intake and output.Participates in Interdisciplinary Team Conferences when needed.Prepares patients/residents for examination by performing assigned procedures such as temperature, pulse, respiration, height and weight measurements and assists in the examination process.Prepares patients/residents and/or examination room for exam, treatment and/or procedures; sets up and arranges examination room.

Places or positions patients/residents on table, bed, stretcher, wheelchair, etc.

using Marisa lifters or other lifting devices, if necessary.Maintains, assembles and dismantles devices and equipment used in patient care.

Prepares and tests equipment for safe operation and transports various equipment and supplies.Changes linens and make beds.

Keeps patient/resident caie unit, utility, treatment, storage rooms, shower rooms, and recreational areas in a neat and orderly fashion.Assists in the care, storage and do inventory of patient/residents’ clothing and property.Maintains, controls, completes, processes and files patients/residents charts, records, transportation and time records, appropriate forms and documents.Assists in clinic, admission procedure and in regulation of visitors.Minimum Qualifications1.

Graduation from elementary school.2.

Successful completion of a basic skill training program for Nurse’s Aides, or its equivalent.3.

Current NYC CNA Certification.4.

1 year of Long Term Care Experience Preferred.5.

Demonstrates proficiency in performing technical procedures and operating equipment safely as indicated on the attached competency checklist.How to ApplyIf you wish to apply for this position, please apply online by clicking the “Apply Now“ button or go to: employment.Nychhc.Org and search job ID# 50660.SDL2017