Patient Care Technician (PCT) - Beto Unit

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Patient Care Technician (PCT) - Beto Unit - ( 2601842 ) Description The mission of Correctional Managed Care is to address the healthcare needs of underserved patient populations within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD). JOB SUMMARY: Provides basic technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas. EQUIPMENT: Standard patient care supplies, equipment and mechanical devices. - Collects, reports and documents data: vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens. - 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. - Assists with feeding. - Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility. - Assists with patient safety related to age and condition. - Assists with patient restraints, patient specific safety precautions, collects, reports and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and usual patient and family behavior, an...