Emergency Room Tech

Overview

Emergency Room Tech

Full Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Night Shift

Covenant Health is the region's top performing healthcare network. Each of our more than 10,000 employees, physicians, and volunteers are unified by one covenant: to put our patients first every day, to strive for excellence in everything we do, and to make Covenant Health the first and best choice in our region.

Cumberland Medical Center is a 189-bed hospital in Crossville, Tennessee, with more than 650 employees and 175 active physicians. It offers a full range of specialty services, including cardiology, gastroenterology, surgery, orthopedics, maternity services, cancer care, and advanced wound care.

Fully accredited by the Joint Commission, Cumberland Medical Center is an acute care hospital offering all private patient rooms as well as specialized services not usually found in the rural medical system. For seriously ill patients, advanced medical and surgical care is provided at CMC including telemetry monitored beds and an intensive care unit. Additionally, Cumberland Medical Center offers an outpatient imaging center, same day surgery unit, cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs, a sleep disorder center, breast center, cancer center, and hyperbaric medicine and wound center.

Cumberland Medical Center offers a unique, family-oriented healthcare setting in a rural environment. We strive to deliver exceptional care to our patients, their loved ones, and each other. We look forward to welcoming team-focused people to grow their careers with us!

Position Summary

Functions as a specialized direct patient caregiver in the Emergency Department, performing tasks to assist nurses and providers. Performs hands-on care, specified technical tasks, and coordinates communications on the unit.

• Enters and updates the ED tracking board promptly to communicate with staff.
• Document/maintain patient records as appropriate.
• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, oxygen saturation, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Complete all items/activities on the TECH CHECKLIST of DAILY ACTIVITIES as applicable.
• Order patient care supplies and keep patient care supplies stocked in proper amounts in rooms, carts and other areas as appropriate.
• Clean and wrap instruments to transport to sterile processing with ability to correctly identify and replace proper surgical instruments on appropriate trays.
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment, including checking equipment daily for proper function and reporting equipment that is out of order, handling linen and storing supplies appropriately.
• Gathers equipment for O2 set up; checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
• Promptly answers patient call lights and responds to patient requests.
• Report observed changes in patient condition to nurse or provider.
• Assist with transportation of patients to other areas of the facility.
• Prepare wounds for provider as directed; clean and dress wounds appropriately.
• Apply splints; apply immobilizers and ace bandages; fit patient for crutches.
• Perform tasks such as ROM; assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patient s plan of care.
• Assist provider with pelvic exams.
• Assist in triage with vital signs.
• Ambulate and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport as necessary (on oxygen if required).
• Empty canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
• Provide general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assist in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
• Collect urine, stool and sputum specimens as ordered.
• Perform phlebotomy with correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintain lab-draw supplies, rotate and restock.
• Performs INT removal per nursing or LIP direction.
• Perform suture/staple removal at nurse or LIP direction.
• Perform EKG.
• Adhere to infection control policies including standard precautions and OSHA standards; apply safety measures and proper body mechanics.
• Demonstrate knowledge and competency in…