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I am a nursing student who happened to have a good Idea. That is why I am pursuing it. I am overseen by my unit manager and if these levels were implimented, the techs would recieve training for each new task. I'm am excited to get started. Does anyone else happen to have any ideas? Thanks so much. -Susan

Hello everyone! I am currently in my Junior year of nursing school and I work in a hospital in GA as a patient care tech. Being a student, I want our techs to be able to do more on our unit. I work on a floor that specializes in orthopedic and Neurological surgery. Currently, the techs are allowed to give baths, do vitals signs, take out foleys, take out staples, and spike bags, that is pretty much the extent of what we are allowed to do. In our hospital, techs in ICU and CCU are trained to do more advanced things (ie: put in foleys, do accu checks) I am trying to develop a similar training program on our unit and was wondering if any of you have any ideas of tasks that techs would be able to learn and could legally do. We thought of doing levels of techs. Do any of you have similar situations in your hospitals that you could tell me about? Thanks so much for you help. -Susan