OB Technician - Nights

Position Details

Nights, Full Time, 36 hours per Week
Mercy Hospital - W Memorial Rd Labor & Birth

Responsibilities

• Maintains professional accountability and technical support for provision of patient care for the OB patients experience.
• Under the direction of Nursing and Medical Staff, provide a wide variety of duties related to patient care, clerical support and surgical assistance.
• Works cooperatively with others as part of a team and recognizes the importance of unit goals.
• Performs designated clinical procedures and non-clinical support tasks essential to providing care to the patient and the success of the unit.
• May assist in operational support tasks including maintenance of patient records, bed control and turnover, patient registration, charge capture, ensuring adequate supplies, phlebotomy, transport of specimens, patient transport, obtain blood glucose, Birth Certificate entry, and other duties as assigned.
• Supports the nursing team and patients by providing supportive care and assistance with ADL's to newborns, childbearing and postpartum patients, pediatric patients, and others as assigned.
• Maintains calm and works efficiently and effectively through obstetrical emergencies, as part of the team.
• May be required to take call.

Qualifications

• Education: High-School Diploma or GED are required. This is a non-certified technologist position. May have attended and completed an accredited surgical tech program, but does not have an active Surgical Technologist Certification (CST).
• Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
• Experience: Surgical Technology experience required at hire or completion of a unit-based competency.