Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech - Emergency Room

About the role

Location: 1202 Highway 60, Socorro, NM 87801-3914. Socorro General Hospital's Emergency Room is hiring a Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech to perform secretarial/clerical duties while acting as a communication center for the nursing unit. Performs advanced patient care procedures (such as initiation of intravenous therapy, splinting/casting, suturing, and reinforcement of patient education and care instructions as directed by the registered nurse or licensed provider, and/or perform advanced support‑procedures for the operation of the Emergency Department (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only). Operates patient monitoring systems. Supervised by: Charge Nurse and/or Nurse Manager/Asst. Nurse Manager.

Responsibilities

• Courteously greets and directs customers.
• Promotes/facilitates accurate and timely unit communication.
• Answers telephones and efficiently processes information.
• Redirects phone calls to the appropriate parties.
• Monitors patients and collects information for documentation in the patient record.
• Transports patients and documents action on patient record.
• Collects and records vital signs in patient record.
• Inserts (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only), and removes non‑medicated, peripheral intravenous therapy lines under the direction of a licensed Provider.
• Performs phlebotomy after appropriate training.
• Applies fiberglass splints, casts and traction devices.
• Performs bedside testing such as oximetry, ECG, Glucometry, urinalysis and other tests.
• Scrubs and sutures wounds under the direction of a licensed Provider (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only).
• Performs wound care and dressing changes.
• Prepares patients for surgery.
• Removes gastric and urethral tubes (under direct nursing supervision, when applicable and only after adequate training).
• Performs enemas and pericare.
• Performs other skills under the direction of a Nurse or Provider and after competency validation.
• Coordinates and maintains specific equipment and/or supply systems.
• Coordinates and maintains specific sterile processing systems.
• Operates patient monitoring systems specific to unit needs.
• Uses the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at the skill level commensurate with the responsibilities included in this description, as well as that of a Unit Secretary, when required.
• Ensures cleanliness of nutrition areas