Advanced Emergency Department Technician

About This Role

This night-shift role on a busy surgical ward involves providing direct patient care under the guidance of a registered nurse or designated healthcare professional. It suits a technician committed to compassionate, collaborative, and excellent patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide basic patient care and tasks, including care and comfort, vital sign measurement, personal care and hygiene, and assisting with mobility
• Perform lab draws, ECGs, and basic wound care under the direction of an RN
• Perform advanced patient care and tasks, including colostomy care, IV insertion, IV removal, and IV site care
• Transport patients on monitors
• Identify the need for and initiate CPR
• Perform foley catheter placement
• Identify patients in crisis or decline and alert the RN for further assessments
• Complete patient rounding as assigned
• Provide 1:1 patient safety companion service as needed
• Act as a liaison between the patient and nurse to report changes and concerns
• Provide high-level customer service to all patients, patient's families, community providers, visitors, and employees
• Provide accurate, precise, timely documentation as applicable to patient care
• Participate in handoff reports of pertinent information regarding patient and departmental needs upon arrival and when leaving
• Perform delegated tasks once competency has been validated
• Collect data within scope
• Complete patient screenings as applicable
• Promote quality and safety by seeking to continually improve processes and systems to enhance patient care delivery
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently, problem-solve, and resolve conflict while working under considerable stress
• Maintain knowledge of policies and procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned that are deemed necessary for department operations

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED (required)
• 1 year of experience as an LPN, ED Tech, or Advanced EMT (required)
• Computer literacy
• Ability to monitor patient conditions during treatment
• Ability to inform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care
• Ability to record patients’ medical history
• Sterile field step
• CPR
• Straight urine catheterization
• Ear irrigation
• Patient positioning
• Patient transport
• Customer service skills
• Patient care skills
• Phlebotomy
• Perform EKG
• Splinting