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HomePatient Care Technician

Patient Care Technician (PCT)

Patient Care Technician Program Objective:
Upon completion of this program, graduates will possess the skill and hands on experience need to become entry level Patient Care Technicians, utilizing patients care skills in a variety of healthcare settings.following elements of the health care industry; planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and health, safety, and environmental issues.

Patient Care Technician Program Description:
This program is designed to prepare students in all of the relevant aspects of patient care including personal care, physical comfort, diagnostic testing specifically electrocardiography, phlebotomy, home health care needs, providing post operative care, geriatric care and other critical functions. Graduates of this program will be prepared to work at the entry level in hospitals, home health agencies, clinic, laboratories and other healthcare settings.

Upon completion of this program students will receive a diploma. Student may begin working in their field of training as soon as their diploma is received. The program also contains the Nursing Assistant / HHA curriculum which will qualify the students to sit for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam upon completion of the program.

 

Patient Care Technician Program Course Descriptions

 

This course concentrates in the concept of teamwork, time management, reporting, recording’s ethics and laws, end-of-shift report, safety and comfort, communication skills, and dealing with conflicts. Students will learn Federal and State laws as well as Agency policies to define the rules and functions of each health team member such as right and wrong conduct, legal limits, laws job description, and protecting patients and residents from harm.

This is an introductory course to the field of Medical Terminology, including basic word structure and the use of medical and technical dictionaries. Students will identify component parts of medical terms, analysis and reconstruction of terms with emphasis on spelling, definition and pronunciation.

Students will learn introduction to operative, diagnostic, therapeutic and symptomatic terminology of all body systems, as well as systemic and surgical terminology.

Nursing assistants make valuable contributions in providing health care. Nursing assistants are trained to care for people who are ill or need help in caring for themselves.

The care given is always under the guidance and supervision of licensed health care providers such as nurses or physicians.

This course is an introduction to the structure of the body including the respiratory, urinary, reproductive, and immune systems.

Students will be introduced to new vocabulary words used to describe specific location of a structure, an organ, and relative position of one body part to another. Students continue learning about diseases frequently diagnosed and treated in the Medical Office setting.

This course will be covering different nursing techniques: Body mechanics, bed making, wound care and, heat and cold applications.

Student will learn body mechanic means by using the body in an efficient and careful way, bed making as an important function to avoid body injuries, wound care to prevent infections or any further injury and state laws related to it, and heat and cold applications to promote healing, comfort and reduction in tissue swelling. Legal principles affecting the nursing assistant will be also covered in this course.

This course will introduce students to different nursing areas: Surgery, terminal illness, diseases, and basic needs for babies and mothers. Students will learn the different reasons why surgery is performed; differences between curable and non-curable illness and disease; and other than physical needs for babies.

This course is a continuation of Nursing Fundamental I (PCT105) in which the nursing assistant is required to participate in role playing and group assignments to reinforce techniques already learned pertaining to patient care. Students must take and pass Nursing Fundamental I (PCT 1005) in order to take this course.

In this course students will learn about vital signs and the three body essential process for life: body temperature, breathing and heart functioning. Students will be able to accurately measure, record and report vital signs.

Legal and ethical responsibilities as a patient care assistant will also be covered in this course. The students will learn specific techniques in how to care for a patient following proper guidelines already learned.

This course covers HHA laws, limitations in patient care, personal hygiene, grooming, and other important aspects of patient care.

Students will learn about the different problems and diseases affecting seniors as well as proper nutrition. Student will learn nursing procedures to meet patient’s hygiene needs, Role responsibilities and ethical standards, developing effective communication skills, Understanding differences: Individuals, families, and Cultures, Understanding human development and age-related health problems and late adulthood, and caring for the client who is terminally ill.

This course focuses on key terms and abbreviations, how rehabilitation and restorative care involve the whole person, complications to prevent, common reaction to rehabilitation, prosthesis, disability, restorative aides and restorative nursing care.

Students will be introduced to the disability aspect of the human body. Student will learn the nursing process to promote exercises and activity in all patients.

This course will emphasize in emergency care, defibrillation, adult, child and infant CPR, rescue breathing and epilepsy. Also, the rules of emergency care, in dealing with sudden cardiac arrest, hemorrhage, shock, seizures, burns, fainting, and emergency care for stroke patients. Also, HIV/AIDS. Students will learn what to do in case of an emergency.

Infections as a major safety and health hazard will also be covered in this course and Cause, spreading, precaution, prevention, and transmission of infections.

This course details the path of the blood through the heart. The conduction system of the heart and the components of the E.K.G. cycles are studied. Techniques of electrocardiography standardization and the procedure for recording and mounting a standard 12 lead electrocardiogram are also studied.

This course will teach students about current phlebotomy practice, infectious diseases and their preventions. Phlebotomy equipment usage, procedures for venipuncture, special collection procedures, and phlebotomy’s complications are also studied.

The Patient Care Tech Externship gives the student the opportunity to perform in a medical facility, and to become more familiar with the day-to-day situations and procedures that occur.

The following outline will give insight into the training the student has received. Please give the student the opportunity to perform as many of the procedures as possible.