What are the responsibilities and job description for the MULTI-CARE TECH - CARDIOTHORACIC STEP-DOWN UNIT position at East Alabama Health?
Summary
- EAMC MISSION
- At East Alabama Medical Center, our mission is high quality, compassionate health care, and that statement guides everything we do. We set high standards for customer service, quality, and keeping costs under control.
- POSITION SUMMARY
- Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education. Utilizes standards, guidelines, protocols, or pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information to continuously improve care and practice to enhance outcomes. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development. Will provide care as a team with the nurses such as but not limited to:
- Obtaining vital signs
- Obtaining Blood Glucose readings
- Helping patient with mealtime feedings
- Bathing
- Patient restroom assistance and cleaning
- Ambulation of the patient
- Grooming
- Lifting, turning, and repositioning of patients in beds and chairs
- Blood draws for patient labs
- Collaborating with nurses, MDs, and other patient care specialties
- Emptying and obtaining wound or surgical drain output
- Wound or surgical incision site dressing changes
- POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum Education
- High School Diploma or 10 years of relevant experience
- Minimum Experience
- No prior experience is required.
- EAH will provide on the job training: medical terminology class, phlebotomy clinical, BLS class, and 1-on-1 training with an MCT in your department.
- Required Registration/License/Certification
- BLS must be obtained within 90 days of hire date. EAH will provide.
- Preferred Education
- N/A
- Preferred Experience
- 1 year or more of Med/ Surg MCT experience.
- Preferred Registration/License/Certification
- N/A
- Other Requirements
- N/A