ED Technician

About This Role

This role involves performing various patient care activities and related non-professional services to support the personal needs and comfort of patients in the Emergency Room, under the direct supervision of a registered nurse. The ED Technician will contribute to the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care activities for all ER patients, including departmental flow, logging, procedure setup, documentation, discharge instructions, and coordination of other professional services as directed
• Remove sutures/staples after physician assessment
• Apply slings, ace wraps, cervical collars, wrist and knee immobilizers
• Apply posterior splints (e.g., sugar tong splints, thumb spica splints, ulnar gutter splints) when directed by the physician
• Measure patients for crutches
• Perform skin scrubs on dirty wounds prior to laceration repair
• Provide wound care, apply OTC ointments, Gelfoam, Silvadene, and apply aseptic or sterile dressings
• Assist with gastric lavage as directed
• Perform EKGs on critical and non-critical patients
• Perform phlebotomy on patients
• Determine a patient's oxygen saturation by using a pulse oximeter
• Document vital signs and all interventions on Emergency Department Clinical Record
• Initiate crutch walking teaching
• Review preprinted instructions with patients and refer all questions to the physicians
• Set up sterile instruments for procedures, applying sterile technique
• Rinse, reassemble, and make ready Central Supply equipment for return to CSR
• Order, maintain, and track inventory of ER supplies
• Apply safety principles in testing and maintaining oxygen tanks

Requirements

• High School diploma
• BLS certification

Qualifications

• High School diploma
• More than one year's experience as a technician in an emergency room preferred. Previous phlebotomy experience and/or EKG experience preferred.

Nice to Have

• More than one year's experience as a technician in an emergency room
• Previous phlebotomy experience
• EKG experience
• Basic computer knowledge

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications