PCU Technician

City/State:

New Rochelle, New York

Grant Funded:

No

Department:

MNR PCU And ICU

Bargaining Unit:

1199

Work Shift:

Day

Work Days:

DAYS VARY

Scheduled Hours:

7 AM-8 PM

Scheduled Daily Hours:

12.5 HOURS

Hourly Rate:

For positions that have only a rate listed, the displayed rate is the hiring rate but could be subject to change based on shift differential, experience, education or other relevant factors.

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Job Summary

The PCU technician is a member of a team dedicated to provide the highest quality care and services to our patients by assisting in such functions as maintaining a safe, clean, and functional environment; assisting with dietary aspects of care, transporting patients, and assisting visitors. As an integral part of the team, the PCU technician is responsible for activities, which promote patient focused care within the patient unit. The PCU Technician monitors patients' EKG and reports changes to patient's nurse. The PCU Technician sets patient up for Telemetry monitoring and discontinues telemetry as per doctors' orders. The PCU Technician cleans and maintains the integrity of Telemetry boxes and report broken Telemetry boxes to Bio-medical Engineering.

Essential Functions

• The PCU technician provides safe direct patient care under the guidance of the professional registered nurse.
• The PCU technician provides indirect patient care under the direction of the registered professional nurse and according to the goals and medical care plan of the patient.
• The PCU technician demonstrates expected conduct, behavior and accountability
• The PCU Technician supports the vision, mission, and values of the organization.
   
• Maintains responsibility and accountability for own practice.
   

Qualifications

• High School Required
• 1. Customer Service
  2. Identification of clinical alarms
  3. Use of patient care equipment; bed alarm and scale, geri chairs, stretchers, wheel chairs, bed, equipment for specialty unit.
  4. Body Mechanics
  5. Isolation Precautions.
  6. Safety precautions
  7. Aspiration Precautions
  8. Communicates with the use of AIDET
  9. Phlebotomy Skills
  10. EKG recording
  11. Blood pressure reading
  12. Unit based specialty skills need to perform job function efficiently.

Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.