Healthcare technician

A healthcare technician is an allied health professional who provides direct patient care with or without the supervision of registered nurses or other licensed healthcare providers.

Duties

Healthcare technician's primary position is to assist medical staff complete tasks around their assigned unit or clinic's and accommodate patient needs.

Where employed?

Healthcare technicians are typically found in specialty clinics, intensive care, emergency departments, or laboratory collection facilities.

Cardiology tech

Technicians will perform basic cardiology reports such as, EKG's and will have basic understanding of bodily function.

Sleep tech

A sleep technician performs sleep studies such as polysomnography

Clinical Laboratory Techs

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue, and other substances in a clinical laboratory.

Patient care tech

Patient Care Technicians (PCT), help provide basic care for patients in hospitals and residents of long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes.

Team

The technicians are an integral member of the unit-based healthcare team, they contribute to the continuity of care by decreasing fragmentation through decentralization of selected diagnostic and therapeutic treatment modalities.

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