Emergency Room Tech

Covenant Health•Knoxville, TN

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This position functions as a direct patient caregiver, performing tasks to assist registered nurses. The Emergency Room Tech provides hands-on care, assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader. Parkwest Medical Center, Covenant Health’s flagship facility in West Knoxville, is a leading hospital in East Tennessee, known for its advanced cardiac care, comprehensive breast health, emergency, and critical care services. It is consistently recognized for its excellence in cardiology, stroke care, surgical procedures, and patient safety.

Requirements

Minimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience: One (1) year's experience as an EMT, HUC, LPN, MA, or PCA/CNA OR must meet licensure requirement below.
Licensure Requirement: CPR required.
If less than one (1) year's experience, must have current EMT registry or license, LPN, MA, or CNA certification at time of hire/promotion or be a student in an accredited nursing education program.
Student must have successfully completed the fundamental clinical skills portion of the program (1st semester of clinicals).

Responsibilities

Enters and updates the ED tracking board promptly to communicate with staff.
Documents and maintains patient records as appropriate.
Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, oxygen saturation, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
Completes all items/activities on the “TECH CHECKLIST of DAILY ACTIVITIES” as applicable.
Orders patient care supplies and keeps patient care supplies stocked in proper amounts in rooms, carts, and other areas as appropriate.
Cleans and wraps instruments to transport to sterile processing with the ability to correctly identify and replace proper surgical instruments on appropriate trays.
Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include checking equipment daily for proper function and reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen, and storing of supplies.
Gathers equipment for O2 set up, checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
Sets up suction equipment and checks for proper function.
Promptly answers patient call lights and responds to patient requests.
Reports observed changes in patient condition to the nurse or provider.
Assists with transportation of patients to other areas of the facility.
Prepares wounds for provider as directed.
Cleans and dresses wounds appropriately.
Applies splints, immobilizers, and ace bandages; fits patient for crutches.
Performs tasks such as Range of Motion (ROM), assists with ambulatory devices as specified by the patient's plan of care.
Assists provider with pelvic exams.
Assists in triage with vital signs.
Ambulates, and assists patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transports when necessary (on oxygen if required).
Empties canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins and records intake and output.
Provides general care such as positioning, lifting, or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal, or commode; preoperative supportive care; and anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
Collects urine, stool, and sputum specimens as ordered.
Performs phlebotomy, including correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating, and restocking.
Performs INT removal per nursing or LIP direction.
Performs suture/staple removal at nurse or LIP direction.
Performs EKG.