Urgent Aid Tech - Urgent Aid, Registry, Rotating Shift
About The Position
UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital is seeking an Urgent Aid Tech for the Family Care Center in Calumet City. This is a 100% onsite 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 assist with patient care. Duties include quick triage, obtaining vital signs, respiratory therapy modalities, peripheral IV catheter insertion and removal, venipuncture and other specimen collection, laboratory testing, and instrument quality control and calibration. The role also includes urinary catheter insertion, applying and removing non-invasive cardiorespiratory monitors, EKG monitoring, basic wound care, assisting providers with exams including pelvic exams, and extremity splinting or immobilization. The Technician helps exceed the expectations of patients, providers, and guests by providing high-quality, cost-effective care and treatment professionally and compassionately, and participates in regulatory survey readiness.
Requirements
- Meet one of the following qualification pathways: 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/UA experience; be a graduate of an accredited Medical Assistants program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/UA experience; be a graduate of an accredited Certified Nursing Assistant program with certification and recent acute, critical care, or ED/UA experience; or have 3–5 years of recent commensurate experience.
- Have pre-hospital, ED, urgent aid, or critical care experience providing direct patient care.
- Have six months of recent full-time employment involving direct patient care in an acute or pre-hospital setting.
- Maintain 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.
- Perform 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-control checks and calibrations.
- Insert urinary catheters and apply or remove non-invasive cardiorespiratory monitors.
- Perform EKG monitoring, basic wound care, and extremity splinting or immobilization.
- Assist providers with examinations, including pelvic exams.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
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