Tech, BV Emergency Room

DHR Health - US:TX:Brownsville - Nights

Summary:

POSITION SUMMARY:

Assist clinical team members by performing a variety of duties for patients within the patient focused care system and under the direction/supervision of a registered nurse. Including, but not limited, to phlebotomy, splinting, assisting with procedures and transporting of patients.

POSITION EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS :

• High School graduate/GED preferred
• Must maintain an active license as C.N.A, CECA, EMT, EMT Intermediate, PCT or graduate of a Medical Assistant program in the state of Texas.
• Current BLS certification required upon hire
• Graduate of an accredited college providing paramedic or related training preferred.
• Must be able to be sensitive to cultural and bilingual issues.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Ability to read, write and speak English
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of nursing, administration, and physicians
• Prefer hospital experience

JOB KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE :

• Two (2) years experience as ED Technician or related preferred.
• Able to adjust and/or troubleshoot monitoring equipment, and computer equipment.
• Requires reasoning ability and good independent judgment.
• Requires working with frequent interruptions.
• Exhibits tact, enthusiasm, and patience.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• High degree of competency/experience in general.
• Requires good communication and organizational skills.
• Requires reasoning ability and good independent judgment.

Responsibilities:

POSITION RESPONSIBILITES:

• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others. Considers mission, vision and values in developing services, standards and practice
• Ordering paper products and medical supplies for unit.
• Maintaining log of assignments for ER techs, and assigning room duties at start of shift.
• Actively participates directly with patient care and ensures a safe and comforting environment
• Responds to patients needs in a timely manner.
• Transports patients as needed.
• Welcomes patients and assists in the admission process.
• Pre-Triage functions including vital signs, notification of arrival and transporting patients to triage
• Performs/Assists with positioning patients and transferring patients from bed to chair or wheelchair or stretcher.
• Cleaning and assembling bed for next patient.
• Observes intravenous lines for adequacy of fluids and operations and reports any non-functioning line as observed with visual inspection.
• Performs oral suction with yankauer.
• Establishes patient setup/connection tasks including NIBP, SaO2, and EKG.
• Applies icepacks.
• Able to prepare IV fluids for licensed personnel via spiking & priming for protocol
• Performs 12 lead ECG.
• Performs vital signs using a variety of equipment
• Performs shave preps on patients.
• Obtains weights and basic patient information as necessary.
• Provides clerical duties as needed, including looking up labs and radiology results.
• Order entry as needed
• Performs blood glucose monitoring.
• Maintains appropriate stock levels of supplies and forms in the emergency department.
• Uses resources in an efficient and cost effective manner.
• Orients new hires to floor
• Participates in developing other staff
• Maintains and develops competencies
• Maintains and promotes a team spirit through active cooperation and collaboration.
• Assists in interdepartmental service coordination
• Participates in the Performance Improvement and Utilization.
• Assumes a role in the maintenance of the patient-focused care delivery system.
• Maintains a neat, organized work area in emergency department.
• Assembles patient chart with appropriate labeling of all chart forms.
• Maintains organization of charts to facilitate location of data and placement forms.
• Posts labs on chart
• Applies skills as delegated such as phlebotomy, setting up trays, dressings and splinting per policy.

Other information:

LINES OF REPSONSIBILITES :

(Chain-of-command)

1. Registered Nurse 2. Charge Nurse 3. Director

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principals including: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Service.

AGE SPECIFIC :

Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirement relative to his or her age.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: (ADA) :

A. Essential Duties : Indicated by bold print within performance standards, preceding individual numbered criteria.

The following table provides physical requirements that will be associated with, but not limited to, this position:

B. Working Conditions : The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air-conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents.

C. Occupational Exposure: This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III (although situations can be imagined or hypothesized under which anyone, anywhere, might encounter potential exposure to body fluids). Person who performs these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

D. Aptitudes : HIGH 1 2 3 4 5 6 LOW

Intelligence: General learning ability: The ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. 3

Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them, and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly. 3

Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. 2

Spatial: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understands relationships of plane and solid objects. Frequently described as the ability to “visualize” objects or two or three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms. 2

Form Perception: Ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines. 3

Clerical Perception: Ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material. To observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation. 2

Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly. 3

Finger Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with fingers in placing and turning motions. 3

Manual Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with hands in placing and turning motions. 3

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination: Ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. 3

Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive and respond to similarities or differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different color. To identify a particular color, or to recognize harmonious or contrasting color combinations, or to match color adequately. 3

I have read and reviewed my job description with my supervisor or designee and I understand the job I am expected to perform.

If applicable ____________ certification will be completed within _________ time frame of hire/transfer date.

Employee Signature: ________________________________ Date: ____________________

Transfer/Hire Date Effective: ________________________.