OB Technician - part time, nights - Mercy Jefferson

Maintains professional accountability and technical support for provision of patient care for the OB patients experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide a wide variety of duties related to patient care, clerical support and surgical assistance under the direction of Nursing and Medical Staff.
• 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.
• Aid 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.
• Support 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.
• Maintain calm and work efficiently and effectively through obstetrical emergencies, as part of the team.
• May be required to take call.

Requirements

• All duties are performed in a manner consistent with our mission, values, and Mercy Service Standards.
• Labor/Delivery/Nursery OB Tech position, 24 hours per week, Nights.

Qualifications

• 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).
• You may be asked to provide proof of education.

Certifications

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

Experience

• Surgical Technology experience required at hire or completion of a unit-based competency within ____ months of hire.

Other

• Must understand English both written and spoken, must be able to perform job-related functions safely and successfully, with or without reasonable accommodation required by federal, state, or local law.