Emergency Department Technician - Grand Ledge

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance.
• Collections, records, and reports various patient data.
• Obtains vital signs, blood glucose levels, bedside pregnancy testing, and reports changes in patient data to registered nurse.
• Performs Foley catheterization for both male and female patients, uses bladder scanner for patients to estimate bladder contents.
• Ambulates and transfers patients, cleans and restocks patient rooms, and performs decontamination procedures.
• Administers enemas as directed, performs specific orthopedic procedures, and sets up suture trays, instruments, and other equipment.
• Participates in emergencies; performs CPR, spiking IVs, slaving monitors, pacing/defibrillation, and airway management.
• Transports patients to and from departments for testing and to inpatient units, exchanges and maintains portable O2 tanks in department, and answers ambulance radio/phone on priority 2 and 3 calls.
• Assures patients “Last Known Well Time” when appropriate, downloads incoming EKGs, and presents to ED physician at time of retrieval.
• Cleans wounds promptly upon patient placement within department pod, gathers anticipated supplies needed to address patient wounds, performs simple dressing changes, cleans trays and equipment, and assists in application and removal of backboards and cervical collars of trauma victims.
• Performs breathalyzers when ordered, places Saline Lock in patient as ordered by Physician, PA, or standing order, discharges IVs as directed by registered nurse, and assists in setting up and monitoring continuous bladder irrigation.
• Empties and records outflow, reports off to oncoming shift for patient continuity, checks on patients for needs, locks down elevators during Code Red pages, stocks patient rooms, line cart, and suture carts in assigned rooms, and assists in stocking other areas of department when assigned area is completed.
• Performs thorough cleaning of stretchers and patient rooms during downtime according to procedure, responds to emergency calls to the parking lot and ambulance bay to bring patient in, precepts new employees once competent in role, rounds to rooms at shift change to ensure stocking accuracy, and department readiness.

Required

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Recent patient care experience in acute care setting as nursing assistant, EMT, completion of a clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program, or completion of the US Armed Services medic program.
• BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).

Preferred

• Emergency Department experience.