About This Role
This night-shift post in the Emergency Department requires a versatile technician with skills in patient care, registration, unit clerk duties, and monitoring. The Emergency Department Technician performs various tasks delegated by a registered nurse, assisting the nursing staff in providing patient care while maintaining a clean, well-organized, adequately stocked, and safe patient environment.
Responsibilities
- Meet expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders
- Assist with admission, transfer, and discharges of patients
- Commensurate with training, observe patient's condition, recognize changes in patient status, and report findings to the RN
- Escort stable patients to other departments as required
- Clean, procure, and return equipment and supplies
- Assist with ordering and maintaining stock items
- Maintain competency to perform special procedures such as: venipuncture, splinting, staple and suture removal, nonsterile dressing changes, peak expiration flow rate, pulse oximetry, and crutch training
- As delegated, set up for Emergency Department procedures and assist the RN as directed
- As delegated by the RN, operate patient monitoring equipment, record rhythm strips, run 12 lead EKGs, biomarkers, and glucometer readings
- Perform phlebotomy, collect laboratory specimens as ordered, and insert saline lock under the direction of the RN
- Demonstrate competence to perform assigned patient care responsibilities in a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of patients served by the department
- Appropriately adapt assigned patient assessment, treatment, and/or care methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age specific and other developmental needs of each patient served
- Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, perform duties of a clerical and non-nursing nature on the nursing units, including serving as a receptionist for the unit, transcribing orders and requesting items for patient care, and assisting with maintaining patient, unit, and hospital records
- As a Patient Registrar, greet all patients as they arrive in a friendly, courteous, and professional manner; demonstrate and maintain a working knowledge of customer service principles, and departmental expectations regarding customer service
- Show concern for patient problems and ensure comfort of the patient while waiting to be registered or seen by the provider
- Document in the computer system all necessary demographic, insurance, and financial information
- Compile or retrieve scheduled reports from computer system
- Demonstrate adherence to the CORE values of CHRISTUS Health
- Perform other duties as assigned
