HCSS Patient Care Tech II

**Galveston, Texas, United States**

Patient Care

HealthCare System Staffing

Requisition # 2506175

JOB SUMMARY: Per diem position.

To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas.

MAJOR DUTIES / CRITICAL TASKS:

· Collects, reports, and documents data. Takes vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.

· Obtains blood samples by venipuncture.

· Acquires 12 lead EKG.

· Performs and reports POCT.

· Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient’s plan of care.

· Provides for patients’ personal hygiene. Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assists with elimination, and cares for the incontinent patient and...