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Essential Functions:

Direct Patient Care

• Applies monitors and documents restraint usage

• Performs safety checks per standard on high risk patients

• Responsible for obtaining timed cardiac markers on patients with life threatening heart disease

• Performs and documents patient mobility and exercise and comfort rest and sleep care needs

• Performs and documents patient hygiene grooming and dressing skin and nail care dietary and toileting and elimination needs

• Applies non-sterile hot/cold packs/compresses bandages elastic stockings etc. and documents their usage

• Safely and correctly operates equipment (i.e. beds wheelchairs stretchers hypo/hyperthermia unit mechanical lifts bed scales)

• Performs venipuncture for specimen collection under the direction of the RN; appropriately labels and ensures delivery to the Clinical Laboratory

• Performs routine 12-lead electrocardiography testing under the direction of the RN

• Assists the RN or RT with the placement of nasal canula

• Assists MDs and NP/PAs with procedure set-ups including sterile fields

• Provides care/support to patients with orthopedic injuries i.e. splint crutch training and assists physician.

• Performs wound care irrigation

• Assists helicopter crew in transporting patient into hospital

Administrative Duties and Documentation

• Measures and documents intake and output heights and weights and vital signs

• Verifies all patients are registered by an admission specialist before discharge corrects any errors in systems

• Organizes equipment and supplies; assembles equipment; cleans and disinfects equipment; maintains disinfectant solutions per infection control policies; communicates with bio medical engineering for equipment malfunctions

• Stocks trauma room in preparation for Level 1 and 2 trauma patients

• Transcribes and enters physician orders department orders and messages accurately into the computer; writes legibly and transcribes orders accurately; pages consults as needed; locates providers for consults as needed

• Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged and transferred charts ensuring completion

• Performs safety checks on equipment and performs QA/QC on point of care testing machines

• Updates the patients file and hospital billing system with information necessary to complete the collection cycle; obtains patient/guarantor signatures for the purpose of release of information

• Ensures that assignment of patients medical record number is accurate according to patient information received

• Ensures that the ordering attending referring and primary care physicians are documented in the hospital computer system (SMS) correctly

Other Functions:

• Transports patients lab work specimens and blood

• Handles desk communications properly and promptly including responding immediately to intercom pages and routing of messages to appropriate person

• Takes all necessary steps to ensure safeguarding of patients clothing and valuables

• Keeps track of all equipment and supplies used; notifies appropriate persons regarding broken or lost equipment and missing supplies

• Adheres to Universal precaution infection control OSHA and other regulatory policies and procedures; maintains safe work practices and follows facility safety procedures

• Assists with admitting physical examination transferring and discharging patients

• Receives oncoming and gives off-going reports

• Assists in orientation of new employees as necessary

• Uses A.I.D.E.T. when communicating with patients families visitors co-workers and customers

• Maintains compliance with all company policies procedures and standards of conduct

• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times

• Performs other duties as assigned

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About the Unit

UofL Hospitals Emergency Department is a regional Level 1 Trauma Center and is the gateway for many of these patients. We care for over 70000 patients per year with a focus on trauma burn neuro high risk obstetrics psychiatric and pulmonary patients as well as caring for the student athletes of the University of Louisville. Our ED is a complex department with an ability to care for any level of acuity that crosses our threshold.