These are some examples of job descriptions we have handpicked from real Patient Care Technician resumes for your reference.
Patient Care Technician
- I started as a patient care technician and worked towards becoming certified as a CCHT (clinical certified hemodialysis technician).
- In 2016 I was promoted to PCT in which I was responsible for training and mentorship of new staff.
- I was responsible to open and closer the clinic for operation.
- I mixed essential chemicals needed for safe dialysis treatment.
Patient Care Technician
- A year and a half experience at Fresenius as a Patient Care Technician helping patients receive regular dialysis treatments.
- Continuously making patients feel comfortable while monitoring for any medical complications and technical problems.
- Ensure that the dialysis machine is working properly and that blood is moving through the tubes.
Patient Care Technician
- Disinfect dialysis equipment and prepare the fluid used for each patient during dialysis.
- Insert dialysis needles into a patient’s arm veins and start the equipment.
- Inject patients with anticoagulants and change the speed or rate of dialysis as necessary during the procedure.
- Disconnect the patient from the equipment and apply dressings to the puncture area.
Patient Care Technician
- Answered patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs.
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Reviewed patients’ dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
- Measured and recorded food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
Patient Care Technician
- Engage residents in recreational activities, ADL’s (activities of daily living), and behavioral management.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and coordinate discharge planning.
- Routinely work one-on-one patients suffering traumatic brain injuries, developmentally disabled and dementia patients.
Patient Care Technician
- Ensures that necessary equipment and supplies are present in the patient rooms and on the unit.
- Assists in keeping patient environment, patient equipment and patient care areas/units clean, safe and orderly.
- Uses a clear, caring and respectful communication style with patients and families, nurses and other members of the health care team.
Patient Care Technician
- Monitoring residents comfort and safety while enhancing their stability to return to the community.
- Recording vital signs and reporting any new discolorations of the residents skin.
- Assisting 40 to 50 residents with daily living, personal hygiene, wound care, range of motion and walking, game activities, arts and crafts.
Patient Care Technician
- Maintain accurate records of patient care, condition, progress and concerns.
- Observe and document patient status and reported patient complaints to the RN.
- Read and record temperature, pulse and respiration.
- Respond appropriately to the physical, emotional and developmental needs of patients.
Patient Care Technician
- Implement behavioral interventions and modifications to adults, adolescents and children as per the treatment plan under the guidance of professional multidisciplinary treatment team.
- Teach independent living and self-help skills to individuals with serious mental disorders.
- When necessary, de-escalate crisis situations through appropriate therapeutic interventions.
Patient Care Technician
- Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.
- Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.
- Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
- Provide mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.
Patient Care Technician
- Assist nurses and physicians in all aspects of patient care, within four emergency room units comprised of trauma, critical care, and fast track.
- Assess patients’ needs on the basis of available data, observations and interviewing of patients, and document all chart data.
- Conduct patient assessments, obtain and record vital signs, perform phlebotomy, administer EKG’s and conduct glucose testing.
- Pick up and transport patient medications, solutions, syringes, gloves, gowns, masks, respiratory and ambu bags as per nurses’ and physicians’ request.
Patient Care Technician
- The most important role was to provide patient care and patient safety to the patient population I was assigned.
- I have become very skilled in venipuncture and very efficient in EKG performance.
- I do vital signs and understand my role as a patient care technician, alongside the other healthcare professionals, under different protocols.
