Emergency Department Technician

About This Role

This Emergency Department Technician role supports registered nurses by providing direct and indirect patient care in an emergency setting. The position involves augmenting and performing various patient care duties to meet the total needs of patients, adhering to nursing policies and organizational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide age-appropriate care for the patient population served, considering growth and developmental phases, thermal regulation, nutrition, safety, and functional needs.
• Use appropriate resources for patients with special needs such as language barriers, sensory problems, altered cognition, cultural, and religious needs.
• Assist with patient care by preparing patients for exam and treatment, bringing patients into appropriate care areas as directed, and assisting with undressing or exposing areas for exams as protocols dictate.
• Integrate principles of infection control and infection prevention into practice.
• Stock patient rooms with supplies and remove outdated items.
• Set up equipment and procedure trays (using sterile and/or unsterile techniques) as necessary to assist physicians and physician assistants in preparation for suturing and other emergency department procedures (splinting and casting, pelvic examinations).
• Respond to Trauma, Stroke, and Code R activations, assisting with patient care.
• Bathe patients and provide assistance with hygiene.
• Change incontinent patients promptly and provide appropriate skin care.
• Empty bedpans, urinals, commodes, and assist patients to the bathroom.
• Distribute nourishments as scheduled.
• Measure and record intake and output.
• Position patients correctly, align and support torso and limbs as directed and per patient comfort.
• Transport patients via wheelchair or stretcher using safety measures appropriate for the patient and vehicle.
• Make hourly rounds for patient safety and customer service.
• Respond to patient call lights in a timely manner.
• Assist visitors to the unit in finding patient rooms, staff members, and other resources, checking with the RN as necessary for visitors.
• Properly collect and label specimen(s) for lab completion.
• Inventory patient belongings at admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Provide 1:1 patient supervision in a “Sitter” role for patient safety and suicide precautions.
• Communicate clearly and with courtesy with all members of the healthcare team, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
• Keep track of patient location, communicating to RN, other healthcare providers, and the patient’s family.
• Perform the following per policies and clinical protocols (but not limited to):