Emergency Room Tech
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Overview
Emergency Room Technician Emergency Department
Full Time 72 Hours Per Pay Period Day Shift
Morristown Hamblen Overview:
MorristownHamblen Healthcare System has167 licensed beds and 23 emergency suites. The hospitaloffers outstanding ancillary services including Laboratory Radiology and Therapy our Breast Imaging Center of Excellencewomen can have their annual mammograms biopsiesand can meet with a nurse navigator if needed. The Womens Center offers six newly remodeled labor and delivery suites and has a secure nursery for the care of our newborns. It serves an eightcounty region in the Lakeway Area and is equipped with modern technologies and expert staff to provide the best possible patient care. Learn more about our amazing facility at Department:
Our 23bed Emergency Department is equipped with the latest technology including computerized patient trackingRadiology Servicesinside the ER and easy access toSurgeryIntensive Care and other vital areas of the hospital. We are equipped with the only Heart Cath Labs in the Lakeway Area. The Emergency Department is also the areas only Designated General Pediatric Emergency Facility offering specialized equipment and advanced training and certification in caring for emergencies involving children.
Position Summary:
Functions as a specialized direct patient caregiver in the Emergency Department performing tasks to assist nurses and providers. Performs handson care specified technical tasks and coordinates communications on the unit.
Responsibilities
- Enters and updates the ED tracking board promptly to communicate with staff.
- Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
- Take and record temperature pulse respiration rates blood pressures oxygen saturation weights heights and intakeoutput measurements.
- Completes all items / activities on TECH CHECKLIST of DAILY ACTIVITIES as applicable.
- Orders patient care supplies and keeps patient care supplies stocked in proper amounts in rooms carts and other areas as appropriate.
- Cleans and wraps instruments to transport to sterile processing with ability to correctly identify and replace proper surgical instruments on appropriate trays.
- Assists in maintaining a safe environment which may include checking equipment daily for proper function and reporting equipment that is out of order appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
- Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
- Sets up suction equipment and checks for proper function.
- Promptly answers patient call lights and responds to patient requests.
- Reports observed changes in patient condition to nurse or provider.
- Assists with transportation of patients to other areas of the facility.
- Prepares wounds for provider as directed. Cleans and dresses wounds appropriately.
- Application of splints.
- Applies immobilizers and ace bandages; fits patient for crutches.
- Performs tasks such as ROM assists with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients plan of care.
- Assists provider with pelvic exams.
- Assists in triage with vital signs.
- Ambulates and assists patients in and out of bed into wheelchairs and transport when necessary (on oxygen if required).
- Empty canisters urine bags bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
- Provides general care such as positioning lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and antiembolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
- Collects urine stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
- Performs phlebotomy. To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers maintenance of labdraw supplies rotating and restocking.
- Performs INT removal per nursing or LIP direction.
- Performs suture / staple removal at nurse or LIP direction.
- Performs EKG.
- Employs all established infection control policies including standard precautions transmissionbased isolation precautions OSHA standards safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
- Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for agespecific needs of the population served.
- Helps maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
- Follows policies procedures and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
One 1 years experience as an EMT HUC LPN MA or PCA/CNA OR must meet licensure requirement below.
Licensure Requirement:
CPR required. If less than one 1 years experience must have current EMT registry or license LPN MA or CNA certification at time of hire/promotion or be a student in an accredited nursing education must have successfully completed fundamental clinical skills portion of the program 1st semester of clinicals). CNA MA EMT or sucessful completion of first year of nursing school preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
