Emergency Room Tech/Unit Coord, Jewish Hospital, ED, 7p-7a

Job Title: Emergency Department Tech/Unit Coordinator

The Emergency Department Tech/Unit Coordinator provides clinical patient care support in a caring, safe, and efficient manner, under the direction of a RN. The employee also performs other functions including clerical duties, admitting and discharging patients in multiple computer systems, phlebotomy, EKG lead placement, trauma care, and respiratory functions.

Essential Functions:

• Measures and documents intake and output, heights and weights, and vital signs
• Applies, monitors, and documents restraint usage
• Performs safety checks per standard on high risk patients
• Responsible for obtaining timed cardiac markers on patients with life threatening heart disease
• Verifies all patients are registered by an admission specialist before discharge, corrects any errors in systems
• Performs and documents patient mobility and exercise, and comfort, rest, and sleep care needs
• Performs and documents patient hygiene, grooming, and dressing, skin and nail care, dietary, and toileting and elimination needs
• Transports patients, lab work, specimens, and blood
• Organizes equipment and supplies; assembles equipment; cleans and disinfects equipment; maintains disinfectant solutions per infection control policies; communicates with bio medical engineering for equipment malfunctions

• Stocks trauma room in preparation for trauma patients
• Applies non-sterile hot/cold packs/compresses, bandages, elastic stockings, etc. and documents their usage
• Safely and correctly operates equipment (i.e. beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, hypo/hyperthermia unit, mechanical lifts, bed scales)
• Performs venipuncture for specimen collection under the direction of the RN; appropriately labels and ensures delivery to the Clinical Laboratory
• Performs routine 12-lead electrocardiography testing under the direction of the RN
• Assists the RN or RT with the placement of nasal canula
• Assists MDs and NP/PAs with procedure set-ups including sterile fields
• Transcribes and enters physician orders, department orders and messages accurately into the computer; writes legibly and transcribes orders accurately; pages consults as needed; locates providers for consults, as needed
• Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged and transferred charts, ensuring completion
• Performs safety checks on equipment and performs QA/QC on point of care testing machines
• Updates the patients file and hospital billing system with information necessary to complete the collection cycle; obtains patient/guarantor signatures for the purpose of release of information
• Ensures that assignment of patient's medical record number is accurate according to patient information received
• Ensures that the ordering, attending, referring, and primary care physicians are documented in the hospital computer system (SMS) correctly
• Provides care/support to patients with orthopedic injuries i.e. splint, crutch training and assists physician.
• Performs wound care irrigation

Other Functions:

• Responds appropriately in lifesaving situations
• Handles desk communications properly and promptly, including responding immediately to intercom, pages and routing of messages to appropriate person
• Takes all necessary steps to ensure safeguarding of patients clothing and valuables
• Keeps track of all equipment and supplies used; notifies appropriate persons regarding broken or lost equipment and missing supplies
• Adheres to Universal precaution, infection control, OSHA, and other regulatory policies and procedures; maintains safe work practices and follows facility safety procedures
• Assists with admitting, physical examination, transferring, and discharging patients
• Receives oncoming and gives off-going reports
• Assists in orientation of new employees, as necessary
• Uses A.I.D.E.T. when communicating with patients, families, visitors, co-workers and customers
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct
• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education:

• High School diploma or GED/equivalent (required)
• Completion of a recognized Clinical Assistant, Medical Assistant or EMT Training Program, or Nursing Students who have completed Fundamentals of Nursing Course from an accredited school of nursing (preferred)

Experience:

• Previous experience in ED (preferred)

Certification:

• Certification as a Nursing Assistant (C.N.A), Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) (preferred)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA)(required)