Patient Care Technicians play a vital role in patient care, whether you’re working in a hospital, doctor’s office, nursing home, or long-term care facility. This course will provide the student with the knowledge and skills to be an integral part of a medical practice team. Patient Care Techs help patients with procedures such as taking vital signs, performing electrocardiography (EKG), blood draws (PHL) and other needs.
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Typical duties of a Patient Care Technician include:
- provide bedside care and advocate patients’ needs
- interact in daily communication with patients, nurses, doctors, and patients’ families
- conduct catheterizations, saline locks, and wound care procedures
- prepare, initiate and discontinue dialysis treatment of the patient in both hemodialysis and central venous catheters
- draw blood and insert intravenous catheters
- perform urinary catheterizations and nasogastric tube removal
- provide wound care, including the removal of sutures and staples
- operate dialysis equipment and readjust treatment parameters as defined by protocols and patient prescriptions
- perform emergency room skills such as splint and cast immobilizations, crutch training, throat cultures, urinalysis and oxygen therapy
Admission Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Driver’s License
- SS Card
What is included in my tuition?
- HIPAA Training & Certification
- HIV/AIDS Bloodborne Pathogens Course & Certification
- Lab Supplies
- CPR Certification Card (not the course)
- Student Liability Insurance
