Nurse Tech - Capital Region ER - Full Time Mids
About The Position
The Nurse Tech supports patients in the Capital Region Emergency Services department by assisting with daily tasks, providing comfort, performing essential checks, and responding to patient needs. The emergency department is a fast-paced, diverse setting and a certified stroke and STEMI center, with 21 beds, six chairs for lower-acuity fast-track patients, and two psychiatric holding rooms. The role includes assisting nursing and ancillary staff with patient transfers and other care activities, maintaining an orderly environment, communicating with patients, families, visitors, and staff, and completing delegated duties in routine and emergency situations. The position is on-site at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Requirements
- Meet one of the following qualifications: be enrolled in a professional or practical nursing education program and have completed, or complete within 90 days, a Fundamentals of Nursing course; hold CNA certification or be registered for the CNA exam; provide proof of PCT certification; have direct patient-care experience within the past three years as a nursing assistant, EMT, or surgical technician; have completed within the past three years, or complete within 180 days, a UAP training program and clinical log documenting 100 hours of patient-care experience; be a nursing licensure candidate who was unsuccessful on state licensure examinations within the past three years; or have completed a nursing program outside the United States and be awaiting licensure examination in the United States.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of an active role, including ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 pounds.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, holidays, and during inclement weather.
Nice To Haves
- Additional license or certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
Responsibilities
- Assist nursing and ancillary staff with patient transfers between beds, stretchers, and wheelchairs; deliver patient meal trays; and assist with feeding as directed.
- Organize workload and manage multiple tasks while maintaining a clutter-free, orderly environment.
- Answer unit telephones promptly and accurately deliver messages and information to patients, families, visitors, staff, and personnel.
- Educate and train new staff members in Care Team Associate responsibilities.
- Perform duties delegated by nursing staff and unit management in routine and emergent situations.
- Reposition patients; place and remove patient equipment; provide daily hygiene care and simple non-sterile dressing changes; perform finger-stick glucose checks; and, as permitted, perform venipuncture to obtain blood samples.
- Maintain quality-control checks and deliver or retrieve lab specimens and supplies as requested.
- Enter information accurately and promptly into the bed-management system.
- Respond promptly to patient call lights and address patient needs using positive guest-relations skills.
- Obtain and document patient vital signs, intake, output, height, and weight as directed.
- Complete unit- or department-specific duties as outlined in department documents.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage starting day one.
- Generous paid leave and paid time off, including ten holidays.
- Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years.
- Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%).
- Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels, and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
