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Creating Life Better Here Starts With YouAt San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.The Patient Care Tech (PCT) is an integral part of a patient-focused team who use their knowledge, skills, and energy to carry out the sacred task of helping others. They serve as the communication hub for the patient care environment and are responsible for creating and maintaining a care environment conducive to healing.Required Behaviors:As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.Required Qualifications:High school diploma or GEDNursing assistant experience or certification; if no nursing assistant experience or certification, completion of nursing assistant or patient care tech programBasic Life Support (BLS) Certification within two (2) weeks of hireLegible printingClear speaking voiceTyping/computer skillsMature, courteous deportmentDrivers license free of violation for SJRIRPreferred Qualifications:Medical terminology required prior to unit orientation or documentation of formal class within three (3) yearsPrevious experienceMulti-language abilityDuties and Responsibilities:Demonstrates commitment to professional growth and development for self and othersCollaborates with all team members to provide skillful, supportive care for all patientsCommunicates pertinent information to members of the patient care teamSupports and participates in performance improvement activitiesProvides quality internal and external customer servicePossesses communication skills strong enough to participate with the team, manage conflict, and work successfully with the publicHas ability to perform accurately and quickly in a busy, stressful environment, setting priorities as to dutiesDeals with the emotional stress of caring for dying and chronically ill patientsPerforms other duties as assignedEach employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:Meets OSHA training requirementsPotential exposure to blood and bodily fluidsIntermittent or prolonged standing, walking, and sittingEffectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and familiesAccepts the risk of job-related illness and injury which may cause long-term health problemsRepetitive motions (i.e., wrist/hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.)Able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds using approved hospital transport devices

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