Critical Care Technician - Emergency Dept - Full Time

About the role

The University of Miami's Emergency Department seeks a Critical Care Technician to conduct drug utilization reviews, consult on prescription orders, and assist patients and healthcare providers.

Responsibilities

• Conducts drug utilization review studies and consults with medical practitioners on prescription orders, patient reactions, and errors.
• Works closely with patients and healthcare providers to provide information and guidance about the effects of prescription drugs, and to help plan effective drug therapy programs.
• Maintains and cares for all equipment, including cleaning of intravenous pumps, poles, glucometer, and ultrasound machine with hospital-approved disinfectant, before and after use.
• Maintains patient areas with adequate supplies.
• Completes equipment log, reports broken equipment, and enters work orders for repair.
• Ensures medication refrigerator is clean, maintains refrigerator logs, and reports deviations in temperature range to supervisor.
• Collections vital signs and communicates abnormalities to appropriate senior staff members.
• Accompanies patients to the exam room for procedures.
• Prepares clinic rooms for procedures to assure all equipment and supplies are present.
• Assists with simple wound care and practices universal precautions per policy.
• Affords assistance in lifting, positioning, turning, and ambulating patients.
• Collects specimen of stool, urine, and sputum, and transports to laboratory.
• Reports any changes observed in the condition or behavior of patients to the assigned nurse.
• Transports patients to and from various areas as indicated.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Requirements

• Education: High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience required.
• Certification and Licensing: Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements (EMT/PMD).
• BLS-CPR, ACLS, PALS.

Qualifications

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Skills

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Benefits

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

Pay

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Schedule

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