ER Tech II - Emergency Department, General; part time

Position: ER Tech II - Emergency Department, The General (part time)

ER Tech II - Emergency Department, The General (part time)

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Job Purpose or Mission:
Works collaboratively with and under the direct supervision of a registered nurse to participate in the delivery of patient care for the improvement of quality of life for patients and families. Job is performed appropriately for the age population served as defined in the department's scope of care.

Performance Criteria CRITERIA A:
Everyday Excellence Values

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B:
Corporate Compliance

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

CRITERIA C:
Personal Achievement

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments.
• Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D:
Performance Improvement

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E:
Cost Management

• Effectively manages time and resources.
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource‑saving processes.

CRITERIA F:
Patient & Employee Safety

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

Job Functions

Performs direct and indirect patient care promptly and courteously as directed by registered nurse and/or physician to facilitate patient flow through the Emergency Department.

• Assists in the initial assessment and management of illness or injury to emergency patients in accordance with specified protocol and procedure.
• Reports changes in the patient's condition, in a timely and accurate manner, to the patient's primary nurse.
• Provides direct treatment care according to hospital policy (i.e., splints, ace wraps, dressings, connecting to monitors, urinary catheterization and skin preps) in conformity with recognized safe practices.
• Assists with the collection and transport of specimens in accordance with the universal precaution policy.
• Assists with the admission, discharge and transfer of patients to the unit.
• Performs effectively in emergency response situations in accordance with BRGMC policies and procedures.
• Assists patients with elimination (bedpan, urinal, portable commode, bathroom).
• Assists physicians with minor surgeries.
• Keeps patients and families advised of treatment processes and any delays in their treatment.
• Performs venipuncture for blood samples after documented competency.

Maintains patient records and charts to ensure an accurate record of the patient's medical…