ED Tech/Unit Coordinator, Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, 7p-7a

Primary Location:

Mary and Elizabeth - UMC

Address:

1850 Bluegrass Ave
Louisville, KY 40215


Shift:

Nights 7P - 7A (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

• UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
• With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

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

Additional Job Description:

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)