Patient Care Tech Associate

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Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems.  In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities*

• Welcomes patients, families, and visitors to the unit
• Directs patients, families, and visitors to and from the waiting areas
• Routinely check with patients and families to meet their comfort needs
• Assist with the nourishment needs of patients per nursing instruction
• Set up activities at bedside to assist with patient comfort, i.e., video games, toys, etc.
• Facilitate transfer process, i.e., supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Facilitate discharge process, i.e., supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Respond to patient call lights
• Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity when providing care and interacting with patients and families
• Stock bedside carts and blanket warmers
• Clean and prepare bays before and after patients have occupied
• Maintain supplies and orderliness of nutrition areas
• Assure availability and operation of equipment
• Monitor numbers and availability of unit specific equipment and order as necessary
• Clean stretchers, cribs, wheelchairs, and children's toys with Virex or Bleach per protocol
• Organize and place crib, stretcher, and wheelchairs to their designated slots as assigned by charge nurse
• Deliver stretchers or cribs to CT, MRI, and Nuclear Medicine when requested
• Assure that all patient beds, cribs, and stretchers are equipped with an oxygen tank for transports
• Transport or assist transportation of patients from inpatient unit to preop area: gather supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Transport or assist transportation of patients from PACU to inpatient units: gather supplies, equipment, patient belongings
• Assist transport of patients from PACU Phase 2 to 2nd floor lobby
• Transport patients to off-site procedural areas i.e., UH Nuclear Medicine, CT, MRI UH OR/PACU
• Transport STAT blood samples from Mott preop/PACU to lab in UH when tube system is down

Required Qualifications*

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent. 
• Ability to read and write.

Desired Qualifications*

• Recent experience in an unlicensed assistive role in a patient care setting
• Demonstrated communication skills both written and verbal.
• Basic computer skills
• Course work in an Allied Health field

Work Schedule

8 hour shifts/week from 8a-430p. Rotating weekend obligation.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.