ER Tech - Full-time

Position Summary:

To perform skilled tasks and prescribed procedures in the care of patients, under the direction of a licensed professional nurse; to perform routine nursing tasks, under the direction of a licensed professional nurse; and to perform duties supportive of nursing services.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care, performing delegated data collection, treatments and procedures in accordance with standards.
• Implements nursing directives communicated by the Registered Nurse, shift report, patient therapy profile, and nursing plan of care.
• Instructs patients and families as delegated.
• Responds to patient call bells, and notifies the Registered Nurse as necessary.
• Maintains the tidiness and cleanliness of patients’ rooms and patient care areas.
• Maintains designated equipment in appropriate working order, reporting needed repairs.
• Inventories and stocks designated instruments, equipment, and supplies.
• Maintains aseptic technique when handling sterile equipment/supplies and/or assisting with or performing invasive procedures.
• Handles clean and soiled linen, supplies, and equipment and disposes of waste materials in accordance with protocols and procedures.
• Ensures completion of requisition forms and/or patient charge forms when indicated.
• Documents pertinent observations and nursing procedures performed on the appropriate chart forms, in accordance with protocols and procedures.
• Reports patient problems, patient incidents or changes in patient status to a Registered Nurse or supervisor.

Requirements

• ER Tech needed to work rotating shifts.
• Successful completion of a planned program of study preparing participants to provide care to patients, current licensure as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a nursing student who has successfully completed Level I of Nursing clinical skills required.
• Successful completion of a unit clerk certificate program, or successful completion of at least 2 years in an accredited school of professional nursing, or one year previous experience as a unit secretary in a hospital setting preferred.
• Two years patient care experience preferred.