Emergency Dept Tech, UofL Hospital ED

** Position Summary and Purpose
** The Emergency Department Tech provides clinical patient care support in a caring, safe, and efficient manner, under the direction of a RN.
The Emergency Department Tech 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:

Under the direct supervision of a manager this position will provide Emergency Department Tech job including:

• Responds appropriately in lifesaving situations.  
• Measures and documents intake and output, heights and weights, and vital signs.  
• Applies, monitors, and documents restraint usage.  
• Performs safety checks q 15 min 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.

• Knowledgeable of key signs of distress which would require immediate placement of patient in ED during arrival at triage desk.

• 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.  
• Assists with admitting, physical examination, transferring, and discharging patients.

• 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.  
• 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.  
• Knowledgeable of supplies and equipment in trauma room. Stock trauma room in preparation for Level 1 and 2 trauma patients.

• Applies unsterile hot/cold packs/compresses, bandages, elastic stockings, etc. and documents.  
• Safely and correctly operates equipment (i.e. beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, hypo/hyperthermia unit, mechanical lifts, bed scales).  
• Receives oncoming and gives off-going reports.

• Adheres to Universal precaution, infection control, OSHA, and other regulatory policies and procedures.  Maintains safe work practices and follows facility safety procedures.  
• 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  
• Assist MD’s 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.

• Presents a pleasant, courteous, effective manner with telephone conversations and interactions with others. Locates providers for consults.

• Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged and transferred charts, checking for completeness.

• Performs safety checks on equipment and performs QA/QC on point of care testing machines.

• Handles desk communications properly and promptly, including responding immediately to intercom, pages and routing of messages to appropriate person.  
• 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…