SAH ED Technician

Overview

SUMMARY: The Emergency Room Technician performs various patient care activities and related non-professional services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comfort of patients, under the ultimate direction and supervision of a registered nurse. Brown University Health employees are expected to model the organization s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, guiding everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors:
Instill Trust, Value Differences, Patient and Community Focus, and Collaborate.

• Coordinates patient care activities for all ER patients including departmental flow, logging, setup for procedures, documentation, discharge instructions, and coordination of other professional services as directed.
• Removes sutures/staples after the wound is assessed by the physician.
• Applies slings, ace wraps, cervical collars, wrist and knee immobilizers.
• Applies posterior splints to include, but not limited to: sugar tong splints, thumb spica splints, ulnar gutter splints when directed by the physician.
• Measures patients for crutches.
• Performs skin scrubs on dirty wounds prior to laceration repair.
• Provides wound care, applications of OTC ointments, Gelfoam, Silvadene, and applies aseptic or sterile dressings.
• Assist with gastric lavage as directed.
• Performs EKGs on critical and non-critical patients.
• Performs phlebotomy on patients.
• Determines a patient s oxygen saturation by using a pulse oximeter.
• Documents vital signs and all interventions on the Emergency Department Clinical Record and signs full name.
• Considers age-specific needs according to scope of service:
  Neonate, Child, Adolescent, Adult, Geriatric.
• Initiates crutch walking teaching.
• Reviews preprinted instructions with patients and refers all questions to the physicians.
• Sets up sterile instruments for procedures, being aware of applying sterile technique and its principles.
• Rinse, reassemble, and make ready Central Supply equipment for return to CSR.
• Orders, maintains, keeps track of inventory of ER supplies.
• Applies safety principles in testing and maintaining oxygen tanks.

• Required Qualifications: More than one year s experience as a technician in an emergency room preferred.
• Previous phlebotomy experience and/or EKG experience preferred.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Education: High School diploma. BLS required.

Pay Range: $19.44-$28.38

Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Saint Annes Hospital - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721

11:00pm-7:30am, every other weekend & every other holiday

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