Patient care technician resume examples from 2025
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How to write a patient care technician resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A resume summary is your opening statement that highlights your strongest skills and top accomplishments. It is your chance to quickly let recruiters know who you are professionally - and why they should hire you for the patient care technician role.
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in patient care technician-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the patient care technician position.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical patient care technician skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a patient care technician resume:
- Patients
- Vital Signs
- Phlebotomy
- CPR
- Direct Patient Care
- Customer Service
- Blood Pressure
- Direct Supervision
- Patient Rooms
- Patient Treatment
- EKG
- Medical Equipment
- Patient Care
- Catheter
- Home Health
- Lab Specimens
- Rehabilitation
- Patient Care Tech
- Infection Control
- Patient Safety
- Physician Orders
- Hemodialysis
- IV
- Quality Care
- Compassion
- Telemetry
- Specimen Collection
- Restraints
- Oncology
- EMR
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the patient care technician.
How to write patient care technician experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are effective examples from patient care technician resumes:
Work history example #1
Rehabilitation Technician
Integra Seating
- Attended daily meetings with Byromville facility to keep them informed of patient progress with therapy.
- Offered one-on-one assistance to individuals with developmental disabilities Helped individuals achieve rehabilitation goals administered by the State
- Assisted the Rehab Technology Specialist with fitting adjustment and equipment modifications.
- Certified to perform Remote Feature Activation (RFA) on Avaya Communications Manager, Modular Messaging, and Audix.
- Documented vehicle repair orders from start of diagnosis to completion of repairs.
Work history example #2
Patient Care Technician
Christiana Care Health Services
- Performed EKG's and phlebotomy tasks Assisted in ventilator management and trach care Responsible for setting up various types of I.V.
- Performed basic physical assessments of newborns and infants.
- Assisted with administrative functions to support laboratory operations.
- Demonstrated a high degree of patience, reliability, and sensitivity to others.
- Participated in all required safety initiatives and maintained CPR certification.
Work history example #3
Patient Care Technician
Mount Sinai Health System
- Assisted oncology nurses in patient care, vital signs, intravenous medication, phlebotomy, EKG, patient observation.
- Performed EKG's, venipuncture and other phlebotomy procedures.
- Provided clients with communication assistance, typing their correspondence or obtained information for them.
- Worked on Child/Maternal Service and Med/Surg unit.
- Obtained specimens, weights, vital signs, EKG/Phlebotomy on patients III.
Work history example #4
Care Associate
In Home Health
- Accompanied client to and from dialysis clinicPrepared mealsCleaned residence:Performed errands
- Worked under General Surgeon RN's to coordinate care between patient and doctors.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of store policies regarding payments and returns.
- Instigated a second class international recall of bypass valves in DM350 Extracorporeal Hemodialysis machines (J&J).
- Started as a PCA 1 in the float pool.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from patient care technician resumes:
Master's Degree in nursing
Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2015 - 2016
Master's Degree in nursing
Central State University, Wilberforce, OH
1999 - 2000
Highlight your patient care technician certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your patient care technician resume:
- Patient Care Technician
- Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT)
- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
- Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician (CCHT)
- Certified Nurse Technician (CNT)
- Phlebotomy Technician (PBT(ASCP))
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
- Certified Patient Care Technician/Associate/Nurse Technician (CPCT/CPCA/CNT)
- Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA)
- Certified EKG Technician (CET)