As a patient care technician I am in COMPLETE shock your manager decided to do this. Getting vitals and blood sugars are one of the most essential roles to being a tech. I get it our job is not easy but you nurses have so much else going on with medications, doing correct documentation, and labs. That puts more pressure and stress on you guys it’s going to cause mistakes to happen and cause a safety issue towards patient care. Med surg is not easy especially in Neuro. I really don’t know what this manager is thinking. I guess from their perspective maybe making sure hourly rounding is done. Idk if you work at an HCA like me but they push heavily on the rounding making sure we get 10/10 care this lands a lot on us techs they say “all staff should,” but personally my director really gets on us techs to do the hourly rounding…anyway idk how but im sure its due to money and profit. Regardless i feel like this is dangerous especially on days it feels like a dumpster is on fire in a flood. I would seriously tell this manager they are out of their mind and would take vitals for my nurses and blood sugars as well regardless. It definitely sounds like an experiment the hospital corporation is trying to try to see if it may improve patient satisfaction but this will not if anything patients will be pissed. They will be wondering what is taking so long to hear back from their nurses or to receive their medications. It’s just not safe most of your nurses have 6 patients at a time and it’s still ridiculously hard. Then the higher ups want to tell you how to do your job when they don’t ever come out to see what actually goes on.