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Patient Care Technician Specialist

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Description: Patient Care Technician Specialist

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The Patient Care Technician program will prepare you for an entry-level position as a Patient Care Technician. Emphasis is on technical skills necessary to perform personal care to complex patients, implementation of selected portions of care plan including respiratory services, rehabilitation services, EKG, and phlebotomy under the supervision of registered nurses. Skills of the program involve physical assessment and examination of patients, gait training, assistive device management and training, wound care assistance, transfer techniques of various types, therapeutic exercise for patients, range of motion exercise for patients, various patient care related skills, CPR and first-aide. Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive a certificate of completion and will be eligible for National Certification through the

Objectives:

Complete performance objectives for each course include conditions, student behaviors, and standards.

When students have successfully completed the Patient Care Technician Specialist program, they should be able to:

Demonstrate proficiency in all areas of Patient Care related to the competency skills required to perform patient care appropriately, safely and within accepted scope of practice, EKG related to the competency skills required for accurately and appropriately performing EKG procedures and Phlebotomy related to pre-analytical processes of laboratory testing, recognizing and adhering to infection control and safety policies and procedures.

Demonstrate the theoretical knowledge needed to assure the quality of Patient Care, EKG & Phlebotomy processes through appropriate quality control methods, thus contributing to the accuracy of patient care skills, ekg’s and laboratory test results respectively.

Exhibit the professional attitudes and behaviors that are necessary for gaining and maintaining the confidence of the health care community.

Meet requirements to take a national certifying examination for Patient Care Technician, EKG Technician and Phlebotomy Technician.

In the patient care technician program students will perform:

• 25 Live Stick
• 15 Live EKGs
• 4 Vital Signs and patient care skills on 5 subjects

Course Outline: Patient Care Technician Specialist

• Functional performance of an individual
• Concept of patient care
• Causes and risk factors of immobility
• Goal of patient care for residents  
• The patient care approach
• Patient care skills overview
• Regulatory compliance: long term care facility (Quality of Life & Care)
• Types of healthcare facilities and varying levels of care
• Medicaid and Medicare

• Occupational safety and health hazard administration OSHA
• What type of hazards do workers face?
• Healthcare safety hazards
• Latex allergy and prevention
• Chain of infection
• Mode of transmission
• Identifying potentially infectious patients
  • Contact precautions
  • Droplet precautions
  • Airborne precautions
• Breaking the chain of infection
• Hand hygiene
• Personal protective equipment
  • Types and functions of ppe
  • Selecting ppe
  • Order of donning and removing ppe
• Standard precautions
• What are blood borne pathogens
  • What can be done to control the blood borne pathogens
  • Post exposure to blood borne pathogens
  • Blood borne pathogen standards

• Civil law, Tort law
• What is standard of care?
• Negligence vs malpractice
• Basic elements of negligence
• Types of damages
  • Special damage
  • General damage
  • Punitive damage
• Criminal law, sources of laws, consent & its types, patient abuse & types
• Patients’ rights
• Patient self-determination act, advance directives, restraints (types)
• Scope of practice, good samaritan law and uniform anatomical gift act
• American with disabilities act (ADA)

• Muscular System Overview
  • Muscles & their Actions
  • Anatomical Movements
• Skeleton System Overview
• Nervous System Overview
• Heart Overview
• Vascular System Overview
• Integumentary System Overview
• Urinary System Overview
• Digestive System Overview
• Endocrine System Overview
• Pulmonary System Overview

• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Osteomyelitis
• Myofascial Pain Syndrome
• Tendinitis
• Bursitis
• Muscle Strain
• Scoliosis
• Kyphosis
• Torticollis
• Medial Epicondylitis (GF)
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Spondylolysis/listhesis
• Slipped Disc
• Whiplash Injury
• Sacroiliitis
• Types of Fractures
  • Open Fracture
  • Closed Fracture
• Hemophilia
• Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Anaphylaxis
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Gout
• Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Aseptic Necrosis
• Asthma
• Balance Disorder
• Vertigo
• Meniere's Disease
• Facial Nerve (bell’s palsy)
• Bipolar Disorder
• Urinary Incontinence
• Shoulder Bursitis
• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
• Cancer
• Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
• Cataracts
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
• Gallstones 
• Claudication
• Crohn's Disease 
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Compartment Syndrome
• Contact Dermatitis
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
• Diabetes
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Hyperglycemia 
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neuropathic Pain
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Orthostatic Hypotension
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease
• Paget's Disease
• Osteochondritis Dissecans
• Osteopenia
• Overactive Bladder
• Parkinson's Disease
• Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Pneumothorax
• Pneumonia
• Psoriatic Arthritis 
• Radiculopathy
• Raynaud's Phenomenon
• Sciatica
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Tennis Elbow
• Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• Urinary Retention
• Varicose Veins
• Vasculitis
• Paralysis
• Classifying Paralysis
  • Monoplegia
  • Hemiplegia
  • Paraplegia
  • Quadriplegia/Tetraplegia
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Fibromyalgia
• HIV

• Physical assessment techniques
• Medical Documentation:
1. SOAP Notes
• Temperature (Vital Signs)

• Heat production in human body
• Heat distribution in human body
• Stages of fever
• Assessment of body temperature
• Assessment sites

1. Oral temperature
2. Axillary temperature
3. Rectal temperature
4. Tympanic temperature
5. Forehead temperature
• Types of thermometer
• Electronic thermometer
• Tympanic membrane thermometer
• Temporal artery thermometer
• Chemical thermometer
1. Disposable chemical single use
2. Temperature sensitive strip
• Pulse (Vital Signs)
• Mechanism of pulse
• Major factors affecting pulse rate
• Application of pressure
• Pulse sites
• Assessment of pulse
• Rate
• Rhythm
• Volume
• Respiration (Vital Signs)

       Mechanism of respiration

1. Phases of respiration
2. Types of respiration
3. Assessment of respiration
1. Respiratory Rate
2. Respiratory Rhythm and Depth
4. Respiratory abnormalities
5. Factors affecting respiratory rate
6. Cyanosis
7. Breath Sounds
1. Normal
2. Abnormal
• Blood Pressure (Vital Signs)
• Mechanism of blood pressure
• Pulse pressure
• Mean arterial pulse pressure
• Factors affecting blood pressure
• Blood pressure recording equipment
1. Sphygmomanometer
1. Mercury
2. Aneroid
3. Digital 
4. Cuff sizes
2. Stethoscope
3. Type of chest piece
• Korotkoff sounds of blood pressure
• Automated oscillometric blood pressure device
• Pulse oximetry
• Factors affecting pulse oximetry
• Measuring height and weight
• Body mass index
• Measuring head circumference in pediatrics
• Pulmonary function test
• Lung volume
• Lung capacities
• Spirometry
• Pulmonary function test objectives
• Pulmonary function test (steps)
1. Pulmonary function test : Points to consider prior to the test
2. Pulmonary function test: Points to consider during the test
3. Pulmonary function test: Points to consider post test
• Autoclaving and sterilization procedures
• Risk associated with autoclave

ii.    Phases of autoclave

1. Phase 1: Loading
2. Phase 2: Operating
3. Phase 3: Unloading

iii.   Spill clean up

• Positioning patients: Why is turning and positioning of a patient important?
• Positioning patients: Goals
• Positioning patients: How to prevent skin breakdown
• What are different patient positions?
1. Supine
2. Sidelying
3. Prone
4. Semi-fowler
5. Low fowler
6. High fowler
7. Lithotomy
8. Trendelenburg
9. Reverse Trendelenburg
10. Sims
11. Sitting
12. Long Sitting
• How to turn patient competency checklist
• Changing position from supine to prone
• Changing position from prone to supine

BED MOBILITY TECHNIQUES

• Supine to sidelying
• Supine to sit
• Patient positioning: post-position techniques
• While in supine position
• While in semi-supine position
• While in prone position
• While in right lateral position
• While in fowlers position
• While in orthopneic position
• While in sitting position

• Evaluation of range of motion
• Placement of goniometer
• Types of range of motion exercises
• Passive
• Active
• Active Assisted
• Range of motion goals
• Effect of joint immobilization
• Causes of decreased range of motion
• Contraindications of range of motion
• Precautions for performing ROM on patients with specific conditions
• General precautions for performing ROM  
• Few factors that affect body alignment and mobility
• Range of motion: specific to joints

• Spinal Column (Vertebral Column) Movements
• Shoulder Joint Movements
• Elbow Joint Movements
• Wrist Joint Movements
• Metacarpophalangeal Joint Movements
• Distal Interphalangeal Joint Movements
• Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Movements
• Hip Joint Movements
• Knee Joint Movements

1. Ankle Joint Movements

1. Performing range of motion 
2. Key principles while performing range of motion exercises
3. Types of range of motion
4. Illustration of joint movements
5. Illustrations of performing joint range of motions on each joint

Range of motion flow sheet (practice skills sheet)

• Gait terminologies
• Gait cycle
• Stance phase
• Swing phase
• Illustration of gait cycle

• General principles
• Types of weight bearing patterns:
1. Non-weight bearing (NWB)
2. Touch-down weight bearing (TDWB)
3. Partial weight bearing (PWB)
4. Weight bearing as tolerated (WBAT)
5. Full weight bearing (FWB)
• Types of weight bearing patterns with assistive devices
1. Partial weight bearing assistive devices
2. Non-weight bearing assistive devices
• Points to consider prior to choosing assistive devices
• Crutches
1. Disadvantages of axillary crutches
2. Measurement of axillary crutches
3. Types of gait patterns with axillary crutches
• Canes
1. Disadvantage of a cane
2. Measurement of a cane
3. Types of gait patterns with canes
• Forearm crutches
1. Disadvantages of forearm crutches
2. Measurement of forearm crutches
• Walkers
1. Disadvantages of using walkers
2. Measurement of a walker
• 4-point crutch walking gait
• 2-point crutch walking gait
• 3-point crutch walking gait
• Swing-through gait 
• Swing-to gait
• Ascending stairs and curbs
• Descending stairs and curbs

CLASS 12: ORTHOSIS/PROSTHESIS
Orthosis
Functions of an orthosis device:

1. Lower limb (LL) orthosis
2. Spinal orthosis
3. Upper limb (UL) orthosis

Prosthesis

1. Functions of a prosthesis device
2. An ideal prosthesis

Patient care for orthosis and prosthesis

CLASS 13: TRANSFER TECHNIQUES

1. Levels of assistance
2. Transfer

1. Dependent transfer
2. Assisted transfer
3. Independent transfer

• Safety consideration
• Sit to stand
• Stand to sit
• Preventing falls
• Assisting a fallen patient
• Identifying fall risk
• Managing the fallen patient
• To assess the fallen patient
• Transferring a patient from lying surface to another lying surface
• Transferring a patient from lying surface to another lying surface using equipment
• Illustration: Wheelchair to bed
• Illustration: Bed to wheelchair
• Illustration: Wheelchair to chair
• Illustration: Chair to wheelchair
• Illustration: Wheelchair to floor
• Illustration: Wheelchair to bed
• Illustration: Floor to bed
• Illustration: Floor to wheelchair
• Illustration: Floor to wheelchair (independent)
• Illustration: Wheelchair to floor (independent)
• Illustration: Sit to stand
• Illustration: Stand to sit