Patient Care Technician (PCT), Inpatient- Surgical Services- FT Evening
Posted Aug 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This role requires you to be on the Wisconsin CNA registry. Tell me about your CNA training and where you have used it.
What they are checking: Confirming they meet the requirement and have real hands-on experience behind the credential.
Tell me about a time you had to work with a nurse whose style was very different from yours.
What they are checking: Ability to take direction and adjust, since PCTs work under several RNs and LPNs.
Tell me about a time you had to tell a nurse you were overloaded.
What they are checking: Willingness to ask for help instead of silently skipping care when the floor gets busy.
What would you do
You are on evenings. How do you help patients settle for the night while keeping up with care?
What they are checking: Understanding the evening shift rhythm, including pain, toileting and fall risk at bedtime.
A patient's dressing looks soaked through when you go in. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they report immediately to the RN rather than changing or ignoring it themselves.
A patient in pain keeps pressing the call light. How do you respond each time?
What they are checking: Patience and the habit of relaying pain to the nurse instead of brushing it off.
About the work
What do you watch for in a surgical patient in the hours after they come back to the floor?
What they are checking: Awareness of post-op warning signs like bleeding, low blood pressure, breathing changes and confusion.
How do you help a patient out of bed for the first time after surgery?
What they are checking: Safe mobility technique, including checking with the nurse, dangling first and watching for dizziness.
How do you collect a specimen and make sure it gets to the lab right?
What they are checking: Careful labeling and handling, since specimen errors can delay surgical patients' care.
How do you keep treatment areas and rooms clean and ready between patients?
What they are checking: Infection control habits that matter even more around fresh surgical wounds.
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