Urgent Aid Tech - Urgent Aid, Registry, Rotating Shift
About The Position
UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital is hiring an Urgent Aid Tech for the Calumet City Family Care Center. This is a 100% onsite role, and the employee must be based in the greater Chicagoland area. With leadership from the Assistant Patient Care Manager, Manager, and Director of Urgent Aid, the technician provides patient care in accordance with unit-specific training, skills, and competencies. The role supports high-quality, cost-effective care and treatment delivered professionally and compassionately, contributes to patient, provider, and guest satisfaction, and participates in regulatory survey readiness.
Requirements
- Meet one of the following qualifications: graduate from EMT-B/EMT-P training and successfully complete the state exam; be a Licensed Practical Nurse with recent acute, critical care, or ED/urgent aid experience; be a graduate of an accredited Medical Assistants program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/urgent aid experience; be a graduate of an accredited Certified Nursing Assistant program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/urgent aid experience; or have 3–5 years of recent commensurate experience providing direct patient care in pre-hospital, ED, urgent aid, or critical care settings.
- Have six months of recent full-time employment involving direct patient care in an acute or pre-hospital setting.
- Hold current BLS certification through the AHA.
Nice To Haves
- Current ACLS and PALS certifications.
- Phlebotomy experience.
- EKG experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide patient care as directed for assigned patients.
- Assist with quick triage and obtain vital signs.
- Provide respiratory therapy modalities.
- Insert and remove peripheral IV catheters, perform venipuncture, and collect other specimens.
- Perform laboratory testing and instrument quality controls and calibrations.
- Insert urinary catheters.
- Apply and remove non-invasive cardiorespiratory monitors and perform EKG monitoring.
- Provide basic wound care, assist providers with examinations including pelvic exams, and perform extremity splinting or immobilization.
- Maintain annual certifications, including laboratory competencies.
- Collect and analyze quality metrics as assigned.
- Conduct DNV, survey-readiness, and Environment of Care rounds.
- Precept new staff as needed.
- Perform other assigned duties, including EKG and laboratory tasks.
Benefits
- Benefit options are available for eligible roles; the posting directs applicants to the UChicago Medicine benefits overview.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
