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type: 'JobPosting'
title: 'Patient Care Technician - MICU'
url: 'https://pepper.socialhost.dev/job/23360600/patient-care-technician-micu/'
job_id: '23360600'
organization: 'SFX Demo'
location: 'Erie, PA'
employment_type: 'Full-Time'
date_posted: '2024-10-09T09:15:02.573Z'
date_modified: '2026-05-18T09:14:00.66Z'
---

# Patient Care Technician - MICU

- Location: Erie, PA
- Employment type: Full-Time
- Category: Patient Care Support
- Shift: Variable
- Business unit: ST Health Hamot
- Pay: $16.94–$25.87 / hr
- Organization: SFX Demo
- Posted: 2024-10-09T09:15:02.573Z

## Description

**ST Health Hamot is hiring a Patient Care Technician to join the MICU!**

**If you’re passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!**

**This position is Full-Time, with rotating day and night shifts.**

**At least one year of direct patient care experience required.**

***Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.***

**Responsibilities:**

- Provides patient care, including assisting with procedures and activities of daily living.

- Assists with physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies.

- Provides feedback to the RN and reports changes in patient status.

- Performs ST Health core nursing assistant responsibilities (blood glucose, weights, vital signs, I&O, specimen collections, Foley care).

- Completes at least four of the following tasks: phlebotomy, 12-lead EKG, simple dressing, Foley catheter removal, point of care testing, bladder scan, straight catheter, IV catheter removal.

- Reports equipment malfunctions.

- Communicates effectively with other departments.

- Establishes professional and respectful interpersonal relationships.

- Contributes to unit activities (responding to call lights, passing meal trays, transporting patients).

- Receives and acts on feedback and direction.

- Identifies and communicates learning needs to the unit director.

- Takes action to improve knowledge, skills, and performance.

- Requests assistance in planning and prioritizing activities.

- Participates in self-review.

- Provides patient and family instruction under the RN's direction.

- May apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints per protocol.

- Communicates clearly and effectively with the healthcare team.

- Understands cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions.

- Supports workplace safety.

- Maintains productive relationships with colleagues and patients.

- Adheres to policies and procedures.

- Complies with safety policies and procedures, including standard precautions.

- Supports departmental changes and quality initiatives.

- Documents in the medical record according to procedures.

- Completes work in a timely and productive manner.

- Performs department clerical functions as needed.

- Achieves and maintains competency in advanced skills based on departmental needs (phlebotomy/venipuncture, peripheral IV removal, indwelling Foley catheter removal, basic arrhythmia, 12-lead EKG, NG tubes clamping and removal).

- Performs other assigned duties.

- High school diploma or equivalent.

- Must have one of the following:
- 1 year of general healthcare experience.
- 6 months as a ST Health Nursing Assistant/CNA with PCT competency achieved within 120 days of hire/transfer/promotion.
- Enrollment in PT/OT/PA program or related healthcare training program with completion of at least one clinical rotation.
- Completion of a bachelor’s degree in a health sciences field.

- Successful completion of ST Health patient care technician class.

- Successful completion of basic information system training.

- Microcomputer experience preferred

- Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing

- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Paramedic or currently enrolled in an EMT or Paramedic program preferred

- Access to medications limited to distribution to the nurse

**Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:**

- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

- ACLS preferred.

**ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**

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