ED Tech/Unit Coordinator, Medical Center Southwest, PRN

UofL Health•Louisville, KY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The ED Tech/Unit Coordinator provides clinical patient care support in a caring, safe, and efficient manner under the direction of a registered nurse. The role also performs clerical duties and supports patient admissions and discharges in multiple computer systems, phlebotomy, EKG lead placement, trauma care, and respiratory functions. The position is based at UofL Health Medical Center Southwest in Louisville, Kentucky, and is listed as PRN. The role includes direct patient-care tasks such as measuring and documenting vital signs, intake and output, height, and weight; supporting patient mobility, hygiene, comfort, and safety; transporting patients and specimens; and assisting with procedures and wound care. It also includes equipment and supply management, specimen collection, electrocardiography, accurate clinical documentation and order entry, patient registration and billing-system updates, and communication with providers and other team members. The employee must follow infection-control, safety, regulatory, privacy, and company policies.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED/equivalent.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Nice To Haves

Completion of a recognized Clinical Assistant, Medical Assistant, or EMT training program, or nursing students who have completed a Fundamentals of Nursing course at an accredited school of nursing.
Previous Emergency Department experience.
Certification as a Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.), Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

Responsibilities

Measure and document intake and output, height, weight, and vital signs.
Apply, monitor, and document restraint use and perform required safety checks on high-risk patients.
Obtain timed cardiac markers for patients with life-threatening heart disease.
Verify patient registration before discharge and correct errors in relevant systems.
Perform and document patient mobility and exercise, comfort, rest, sleep, hygiene, grooming, dressing, skin and nail care, dietary, toileting, and elimination needs.
Transport patients, laboratory work, specimens, and blood.
Organize, assemble, clean, disinfect, and maintain equipment and supplies; report equipment malfunctions and coordinate with biomedical engineering as needed.
Stock the trauma room in preparation for trauma patients.
Apply and document non-sterile hot or cold packs, compresses, bandages, and elastic stockings.
Operate patient-care equipment safely and correctly, including beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, temperature-control units, mechanical lifts, and bed scales.
Perform venipuncture under RN direction, label specimens appropriately, and ensure delivery to the Clinical Laboratory.
Perform routine 12-lead electrocardiography under RN direction.
Assist an RN or respiratory therapist with nasal cannula placement.
Assist physicians and advanced practice providers with procedure set-ups, including sterile fields.
Accurately transcribe and enter physician and department orders and messages; page consults and locate providers as needed.
Set up admission charts and disassemble discharged and transferred charts, ensuring completion.
Perform equipment safety checks and quality assurance/quality control on point-of-care testing machines.
Update patient files and the hospital billing system with information needed to complete the collection cycle; obtain patient or guarantor signatures for release of information.
Ensure accurate assignment of patient medical record numbers and correct documentation of ordering, attending, referring, and primary care physicians in the hospital computer system.
Provide support to patients with orthopedic injuries, including splinting and crutch training, and assist physicians.
Perform wound-care irrigation.
Respond appropriately in lifesaving situations and handle desk communications promptly, including intercoms, pages, and message routing.
Safeguard patients’ clothing and valuables; track equipment and supplies and report broken or lost equipment and missing supplies.
Follow universal precautions, infection-control, OSHA, regulatory, and facility safety policies and procedures.
Assist with patient admission, physical examination, transfer, and discharge.
Receive and give off-going reports and assist with orientation of new employees as needed.
Use A.I.D.E.T. when communicating with patients, families, visitors, coworkers, and customers.
Maintain compliance with company policies, procedures, standards of conduct, and HIPAA privacy and security requirements.
Perform other duties as assigned.