MH Emergency Department Technician

Overview

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 supervision of a registered nurse. Brown University Health employees are expected to model the organization s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors:
Instill Trust and 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 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.

• 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

High School diploma.

Pay Range: $19.43-$28.36

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

Location: Morton Hospital - 88 Washington Street Taunton, Massachusetts 02780

Work Type: 32-hour evening, every other weekend/holiday

Work Shift: Evening

Driving

Required:

No

Union: 1199 Seiu United Healthcare Workers East