Student nursing assistant vs patient care technician

Differences between student nursing assistant and patient care technician duties and responsibilities

Student nursing assistant example responsibilities.

• Insert straight catheters and manage Foley catheters.
• Manage memory unity within facility.
• Provide high-quality patient care within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation and nursing-home settings.
• Work with patients in a chemical dependent rehabilitation program and assess psychiatric patients in a therapeutic milieu floor.
• Provide high-quality resident care and assist with ADL.
• Obtain experience in performing 12 lead EKG tests.
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Patient care technician example responsibilities.

• Manage care and prepare medical records, transcription and supply orders.
• Manage daily care of high acuity patients with neurological trauma/disorders and post-surgery.
• Qualify to perform patient care responsibilities on catheter patients.
• Transport patients using wheelchairs and stretchers and assist patients to ambulate safely.
• Assist with transferring patients in and out of wheelchairs, recliners, and stretchers.
• Apply protective restraints safely and appropriately, assist in the admission, discharge and transfer of patients as needed.
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