Nurse Technician - 4 Tower/Medsurg/Tele/Oncology - Full Time/Days - Req# 2080698400

p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Job Objective/span/u/strongstrongspan style="font-size:11pt":/span/strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt"The Nurse Technician performs various patient care activities and related non-professional services necessary in caring for the personal needs, safety and comfort of patient and assists in maintenance of a safe and clean environment under the supervision of the Registered Nurse./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Duties and Responsibilities:/span/u/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"1.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Provide patient care which includes accurate observations of the patient needs, reporting patient symptoms and needs to the Licensed Nurse./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"2.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"High Degree of Involvement with patients and family members./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"3.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Maintains Proper Body Alignment at all times./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"4.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Assists in providing general routine patient care based upon the Registered Nurse’s assessment and plan of care, adhering to accepted policies and procedures./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"5.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Performs basic patient care tasks such as hygiene, making occupied and unoccupied beds, provide oral care, peri care and hair care, assist with elimination, assist with feeding and feeding patients when necessary./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"6.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Assist with patient movement including range of motion, turning patients every 2 hours and positioning them in bed and assisting to the chair when applicable./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"7.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Transport patients by gurney, bed or wheelchair./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"8.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Removal and application of restraints./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"9.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"    /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Replace telemetry batteries and patches as requested./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"10.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Prevent skin breakdown./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"11.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Vital signs including pain level/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"12.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Assist with maintaining accurate intake and output/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"13.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Participate in hourly rounding to assess patient needs and safety./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"14.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Assist in the facilitation of a quiet environment./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"15.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Procedures related to elimination including foley care, colostomy care, urostomy care and including but not limited to appliance emptying and changing./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"16.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation as requested. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"17.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Perform Electrocardiograms/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"18.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Ambulation with assistive devices such as crutches, walkers or gait belts./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"19.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Care of tubes and drains including Jackson Pratt, hemovac and pleurovac./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"20.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Use of equipment including intermittent compression devices, traction, scales and cast care./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"21.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Surgical skin preparation/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"22.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Perform errands to facilitate work flow ie: take specimens to lab/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"23.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Operates technical equipment safely and appropriately./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"24.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Demonstrates knowledge regarding special needs and behaviors of age specific groups./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"25.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Documents accurately in the electronic medical record, restraint record, belongings list. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"26.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Demonstrates knowledge of legal aspects of care, knowledge of legal documents pertinent to unit/area of care./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt"27.span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"  /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Knowledge of the computer system in use. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Non-Essential Duties:/span/u/strong/p ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"li class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Assist in special projects/assignments as needed/span/li/ul p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: /span/u/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Knowledge/span/u/strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"li class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Knowledge of basic nurse technician skills/span/li/ul p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Skills /span/u/strong/p ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"li class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Clear and concise communication skills /span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Skills obtained through completion of a basic nursing aide course or the basic nursing modules in the Registered Nursing or Licensed Vocational Nursing programs at a community college /span/li/ul p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Abilities/span/u/strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/p ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"li class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, clinicians, and other health team professionals/span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Ability to accept responsibility for accuracy and response times to emergent and non-emergent requests.         /span/li/ul p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt"strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"a name="_Hlk194662908"/astronguspan style="font-size:11pt"AVMC Values: All AVMC employees will effectively demonstrate these values:/span/u/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"uspan style="font-size:11pt"span style="text-decoration:none" /span/span/u/p ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"li class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Patients Come First – We listen actively and communicate with our patients and families, placing safety as a top priority./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Accountability Ownership – We fully complete tasks, are transparent, effectively communicate, and recognize that what we do reflects on us./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Teamwork – We build trusting relationships, promote a sense of community, and are respectful of everyone.  Success is about the whole team./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Integrity Honesty – We tell the truth at all times, speak up when something is wrong, and do the right thing when no one is looking./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Excellence – We take pride in our work, are goal-oriented, and on a never-ending quest for top tier quality./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Initiative Innovation – Our can-do attitudes, creativity, and resourcefulness empower us to improve the patient’s experience, solve our own problems, make timely decisions, and look for opportunities to add value./span/lili class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size:11pt"Tenderness Compassion – We have genuine empathy, show kindness, and encourage and advocate for each other./span/li/ul p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24pt;text-align:justify"span style="font-size:11pt" /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Education and Experience:/span/u/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Education/span/u/strongstrongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'symbol'"·span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"         /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"High school diploma or equivalent/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'symbol'"·span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"         /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Possess and maintain a current California License as a CNA is preferred/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Experience/span/u/strongstrongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'symbol'"·span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"         /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Minimum one year experience in an acute care setting preferred/span/p p class="MsoNormal" /p p class="MsoNormal"stronguspan style="font-size:11pt"Required Licensure and/or Certifications:/span/u/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'symbol'"·span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"         /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Possess and maintain current certification in American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health care Providers/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.25in"span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'symbol'"·span style="font:7pt 'times new roman'"         /span/spanspan style="font-size:11pt"Maintain annual competences including successful completion of the annual skills requirement./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:22.5pt"strongspan style="font-size:11pt" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"a name="_Hlk194662945"/astronguspan style="font-size:11pt"AVMC Conduct/Com