Emergency Department Technician To provide intermediate technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas in the Emergency Department.
Essential Job Functions:- Collects, reports and documents data. Takes vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
- Performs and reports Point of Care Testing.
- Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient's plan of care.
- Provides for patients' personal hygiene: Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning and superficial wound care, assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient and the patient with a urinary catheter, and provides ostomy care.
- Assists with patient feeding.
- Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.
- Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of the patient.
- Assists the healthcare team by preparing patients and chaperoning during examinations/procedures or assists with other patient treatments.
- Provides for patient safety related to age and condition. Assists with patient restraints and maintains precautions. Collects, reports, and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and unusual patient and family behavior.
- Cares for the patient from a correctional environment.
- Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records at all times.
- Provides and maintains a clean, safe environment, free of obstacles, and conducive to a professional environment.
- Performs and/or assist others in proper aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures.
- Communicates clearly and professionally to Nurse Clinicians, Charge Nurses, and all multidisciplinary team members.
- Notifies Charge Nurse and on-coming staff when equipment is missing or broken.
- Follows-up with Charge Nurse and Equipment Manager
- Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies
- Assist with patient requests for other hospital services.
- Sets up Labor & Delivery tables for ER Deliveries.
- Sets up and provides assistance with minor operating procedures.
- Sets up and provides assistance with area specific diagnostic procedures.
- Participates in and supports quality improvement activities.
- Demonstrates acceptable productivity and practices cost containment.
- Salary commensurate with experience.
Equal Employment OpportunityUTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
