Patient Care Technician

Why limit yourself to one skill when you can master three? As a Patient Care Technician, you will learn a wide range of patient care skills-working side-by-side with physicians and nurses while attending to the physical and emotional needs of patients.

The Patient Care Technician program trains you to be a highly versatile and integral part of the medical team. Upon successful completion of the program, Patent Care Technicians are skilled in three areas: basic nursing, phlebotomy and electrocardiogram (EKG).

Because they are also responsible for observing and reporting any change in the patient’s condition, it is important that they are detail-oriented and patient-focused. Patient Care Technicians have many options when it comes to employment after graduation. In hospitals, they can simultaneously serve as Nursing technicians, EKG technicians and Phlebotomists. In extended care settings, such as skilled nursing facilities and home health, Patient Care Technicians may work as home health aids and nurse’s aids. Graduates may also be employed at blood banks, do research and work in testing laboratories.
    
Students in this program receive instruction in anatomy and physiology and will understand body function and related illnesses. They are taught the fundamentals of nursing and can provide basic nursing care at the technician’s level. The program also includes full instruction in the techniques of performing electrocardiograms (EKG’s) and drawing blood (phlebotomy). Upon completion, graduates are eligible to take the examination to be Certified Nurse Assistants in the State of Missouri.

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