ER Tech Full-time Days

About the role

Must be flexible with scheduling, rotating schedule preferred.

Responsibilities

• Triage all patients upon arrival to determine their location of treatment.
• Provide general patient care. This includes therapeutic and diagnostic intervention.
• Provide age and education-specific education to all patients.
• Assure a clean work environment. This may include duties often reserved for housekeeping services, such as emptying trash, mopping floors, and cleaning counters.
• Follow all company policies.
• Follow all HIPAA policies and procedures.
• Encourage a work environment that is friendly and respectful.
• Provide patients and their families with a customer-focused, friendly, reassuring, and open environment that encourages patient participation in health care decisions.
• Accurately interpret a physician’s instructions.
• Assist the physician on duty with the treatment of patients.
• Communicate with the physician regarding the patient's needs and client feedback, and the operations coordinator's observation.
• Administer medications.
• Collect specimens and conduct laboratory tests
• Review and uphold lab policies and procedures
• Collaborate with health team members to ensure the patient's well-being as evidenced by staff/client feedback.
• Support the efforts of team members
• Execute physician orders, including administration of medications, treatments, and IVs according to policy and procedure
• Observe and document the patient's response to pertinent medications.
• Prepare specimens and operate lab equipment.
• Review and uphold lab policies and procedures.
• 100% attendance at mandatory skills training yearly.
• Maintain all required professional certifications and licenses.
• Participate in any and all certifications of the facility.
• Maintain CEU’s
• Complete yearly assigned education on time
• Attend a minimum of four staff meetings and read and sign all minutes of meetings not attended.
• Patient education and discharge instructions.
• Follow infection control and OSHA safety guidelines.

Requirements

Current Paramedic and EMT-B certification with at least one year of work experience

Current BLS & ACLS certification (or 60 days upon hire)

High school diploma or general education degree (GED).

Qualifications

• Time management.
• Use of medical terminology.
• Performance of diagnostic procedures.
• Quality focus.
• Technical understanding.
• Dependability.
• Analyzing information.
• Effective patient communications.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals and follow HIPAA regulations.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Basic math skills including the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Completion of company provided laboratory testing education and competency.