Patient Care Technician - PCT

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EDUCATION AND LICENSES: • High school diploma or G.E.D. required. EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS: • Qualities and traits: dependable, compassionate, caring, supportive, collaborative, reliable. • Previous patient care experience in a hospital setting or a reputed company facility (preferred but not required). • reputed company employment is dependent on successful completion of the reputed company dialysis training program and successful completion of CPR certification. PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions. • Employees are required to take the Ishihara's reputed company Blindness test as a condition of employment. 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