Urgent Aid Tech - Urgent Aid, Registry, Rotating Shift

University of Chicago • Tinley Park, IL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital is hiring an Urgent Aid Tech for the Tinley Park Family Care Center. This is a 100% onsite registry position, and the employee must be based in the greater Chicagoland area. Under the leadership of the Assistant Patient Care Manager, Manager, and Director of Urgent Aid, the Technician uses the training, skills, and knowledge required by unit-specific competencies to support patient care. The role contributes to high-quality, cost-effective care and treatment delivered professionally and compassionately to patients, providers, and guests, and participates in regulatory survey readiness.

Patient-care duties include quick triage, taking vital signs, respiratory therapy modalities, peripheral IV catheter insertion and removal, venipuncture and other specimen collection, laboratory testing, instrument quality control and calibration, urinary catheter insertion, application and removal of non-invasive cardiorespiratory monitors, EKG monitoring, basic wound care, assisting providers with examinations including pelvic exams, and extremity splinting or immobilization.

Requirements

• One of the following qualifications: graduation from EMT-B or EMT-P training and successful completion of the state exam; Licensed Practical Nurse with recent acute, critical care, or ED/UA experience; graduate of an accredited Medical Assistants program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/UA experience; graduate of an accredited Certified Nursing Assistant program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/UA experience; or 3–5 years of recent commensurate experience.
• Recent pre-hospital, ED, urgent aid, or critical care experience providing direct patient care.
• Six months of recent full-time employment involving direct patient care in an acute or pre-hospital setting.
• 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.
• 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 work.
• Assist with triage, vital signs, respiratory therapy modalities, IV catheter insertion and removal, specimen collection, laboratory testing, instrument quality control and calibration, urinary catheter insertion, cardiorespiratory monitoring, EKG monitoring, wound care, provider examinations, and extremity splinting or immobilization.
• Participate in regulatory survey readiness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed