Emergency Department Technician

Lansing, Michigan

Employer: McLaren
Industry: Technical
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient care following hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and standards of care.

  • Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance.
  • Collects, records, and reports various patient data.
  • Obtains vital signs, blood glucose levels, bedside pregnancy testing, and reports changes in patient data to registered nurse.
  • Obtains blood specimens by venipuncture or micro collection techniques, and assists nursing staff in collecting specimens from intra-vessel catheters.


Required:

  • High school graduate or equivalent.
  • Specialized education requirements include both:
    • Acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or long term care nursing assistant course or completion of a clinical rotation while participating in an accredited nursing program or completion of medical training in a branch or the armed services
    • Completion of course with externship in phlebotomy or completion of an emergency medical technician program or completion of medical assistant program.
  • Recent patient care experience in acute care setting as nursing or medical assistant, EMT, or completion of a clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program.
  • BLS certification


Preferred:

  • Emergency Department experience.
  • Experience in specimen collection (i.e. phlebotomy), specimen processing and distribution.


Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.
Created: 2024-06-25
Reference: 23004594
Country: United States
State: Michigan
City: Lansing
ZIP: 48933

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