Relieve Burnout, Retain Your Nurses & Elevate Patient Care

Schedule a call to discover how our Patient Care Technician Orientation Program can reduce nursing burnout.

Well-trained PCTs are pivotal to your organization’s smooth and successful operation, colleague job satisfaction, and patient care outcomes. Highly prepared patient care technicians help prevent overtaxed nurses, allowing a focus on top-of-license care.

We offer a PCT Orientation Program built on a patient-centered care framework, ensuring that employers can provide a consistent, high-quality orientation that standardizes competencies for new PCT hires across their organization.

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54%

of employers report that their newly certified patient care technicians are job ready.

63%

of nurses report being assigned to care for too many patients at a time.

24%

of acute care nurses' time is spent on activities that could be delegated

91%

of nurses in a 2023 study experienced moderate-to-high levels of burnout.

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How Our Program Helps

Our Patient Care Technician on-the-job training is aligned to key industry, regulatory, professional and facility standards to unify competencies across your PCTs and deliver the utmost quality of support for your nursing teams.

Deliver High Quality Nursing Support

Reduce nurse burn-out with skilled support from consistently well-trained PCTs:

Establish competency and preparation standards for all PCT new hires with a unified technology-driven program for onboarding across your health system
Prepare PCTs to bring top-notch support to your clinical teams with quality skills-based learning aligned by board-certified nursing professional development specialists
Accelerate PCT hospital and patient readiness with a special focus on communication, professionalism, and personability soft skills

Accelerate Competency Development

Accelerate and deepen competency development with innovative learning methods and real-time insights:

Promote deeper understanding with interactive learning interwoven across easily consumable content
Reduce non-productive hours, meeting new hires or re-trainees where they’re at with pre-test-driven adaptive modules
Enable PCTs to practice and apply knowledge and skills safely in a realistic virtual learning environment
Track and advance competencies with detailed competency checklists and step-by-step guides

Streamline Easier Reporting

Enjoy easy-to-pull compliance reporting with digital program alignment and employee analytics:

Our digital program management tool offers fast and easy cross-system reporting for unexpected audits with annually updated digital program alignment to key standards and competencies
Visualize employee progress and proficiencies with ready-to-pull individual, cohort, and facility analytics

How It Works:

Increase nursing productivity

at top of license with skilled support from consistently well-trained PCTs.

Increase PCT practice readiness

with new skills-based onboarding aligned to QSEN, TJC, NAHQ, and more.

Identify and grow PCT competencies

with new detailed competency tracking.

Accelerate effective PCT onboarding

with new innovative interactive learning adapted to competency needs.

Simplify reporting

with easy, digital competency alignment, and new ready-to-pull user, cohort, and facility insights.

Automate scalable PCT onboarding

with one digitized cross-system learning solution.

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1. Consultation & Digital Competency Alignment

Work with our board-certified professional development consultants to align orientation to key quality, professional, regulatory and tailored facility standards.

2. Online Learning With PCTO 2.0

Prepare new hires with engaging online skills-based learning modules covering everything from policies to clinical skills to communication and professionalism.

3. Utilize Competency Development Plans & Resources

Easily follow step-by-step plans to lead hands-on skills days strategically designed to develop key competencies.

"We spend a lot of money on orientation. A lot of non-productive time. Tools and resources to get them more productive quicker will be a financial win."

Director of Nursing

Who We Are

The National Healthcareer Association (NHA) is building the next generation of allied health professionals. From innovative learning solutions to certification and career development, NHA partners with individuals, educators and employers to elevate the learning experience, ensure practice readiness, and drive positive outcomes.

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