ER Tech, South Hospital, PRN

Address: 1903 W. Hebron Lane Shepherdsville, KY 40165 | Shift: Rotating (United States of America)

About the role

UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center. With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Responsibilities

• Measures and documents intake and output, heights and weights, and vital signs
• Applies, monitors, and documents restraint usage
• Performs safety checks per standard on high risk patients
• Responsible for obtaining timed cardiac markers on patients with life threatening heart disease
• Verifies all patients are registered by an admission specialist before discharge, corrects any errors in systems
• Performs and documents patient mobility and exercise, and comfort, rest, and sleep care needs
• Performs and documents patient hygiene, grooming, and dressing, skin and nail care, dietary, and toileting and elimination needs
• Transports patients, lab work, specimens, and blood
• Organizes equipment and supplies; assembles equipment; cleans and disinfects equipment; maintains disinfectant solutions per infection control policies; communicates with bio medical engineering for equipment malfunctions
• Stocks trauma room in preparation for trauma patients
• Applies non-sterile hot/cold packs/compresses, bandages, elastic stockings, etc. and documents their usage
• Safely and correctly operates equipment (i.e. beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, hypo/hyperthermia unit, mechanical lifts, bed scales)
• Performs venipuncture for specimen collection under the direction of the RN; appropriately labels and ensures delivery to the Clinical Laboratory
• Performs routine 12-lead electrocardiography testing under the direction of the RN
• Assists the RN or RT with the placement of nasal canula
• Assists MDs and NP/PAs with procedure set-ups including sterile fields
• Transcribes and enters physician orders, department orders and messages accurately into the computer; writes legibly and transcribes orders accurately; pages consults as needed; locates providers for consults, as needed
• Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged and transferred charts, ensuring completion
• Performs safety checks on equipment and performs QA/QC on point of care testing machines
• Updates the patients file and hospital billing system with information necessary to complete the collection cycle; obtains patient/guarantor signatures for the purpose of release of information
• Ensures that assignment of patient’s medical record number is accurate according to patient information received
• Ensures that the ordering, attending, referring, and primary care physicians are documented in the hospital computer system (SMS) correctly
• Provides care/support to patients with orthopedic injuries i.e. splint,