HLHS 221 - Patient Care Technician Prep

1. Identify and describe basic physiological, psychosocial, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual components of patient needs to improve quality and safety of patient care.
2. Demonstrates the ability to safely discontinue peripheral IV’s.
3. Explain the difference of clean and sterile/aseptic technique.
4. Demonstrate the ability to perform dressing changes.
5. Demonstrate the ability to perform ostomy care.
6. Describe the 5 Rights of Delegation.
7. Demonstrate ability to prioritize patient care.
8. Identify and report situations involving substance abuse.
9. Identify and report situations involving the suspicion of domestic violence/intimate violence.
10. Identify therapeutic communication practices in the delivery of quality patient care.
11. Describe Joint Commission patient safety guidelines.
12. Describe fundamental principles of documentation and use of technology including the electronic health record.
13. Document patient care using EHR.
14. Describe the disease process and define the top 10 diseases in the acute setting.

Provision of basic patient care under the direction of nursing staff

Appropriate set up of equipment and safely perform patient care relating to the care of a patient requiring:

• O2 therapy modalities
• skin breakdown measures
• compression boots
• bed scale weight
• feeding tube
• orthotic or prosthetic devices
• safe removal of peripheral IV’s
• dressing changes
• ostomy needs

Monitor and accurately recording electronic vital signs and intake and output

Admission, transfer, and discharge responsibilities

Assist in the provision of rehabilitation care needs

Perform dressing changes and identifying pertinent wound characteristics

First aid and rapid response conditions

Vital signs

Identifying pain

Documentation of patient care using EHR

Use of technology in health care

Substance abuse

Abuse/neglect

Operational standards
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