Telesitter Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor
• Previous healthcare experience
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written)
• Proficiency with desktop computer
• Demonstrate willingness to be a team-player and a self-starter
• Proficiency obtaining vital signs using manual processes

Responsibilities

• Obtain and document vital signs; inform nurse if vital signs are abnormal.
• Perform 12-lead EKG and hand to ED physician.
• Perform bedside blood sugar testing; inform nurse if result is abnormal.
• Measure and apply extremity splints as directed by nurse or physician.
• Instruct patient regarding safe crutch ambulation techniques with return demonstration by patient.
• Oral suctioning.
• Superficial wound care.
• Perform urethral catheterization.
• Prepare sterile trays.
• Apply dressings.
• Perform phlebotomy.
• Track, deliver, maintain, and retrieve telesitter carts.
• Troubleshoot telesitter cart connectivity issues and place an IT ticket if necessary.
• Perform safe room guideline checks upon initiation and upon every hand-off thereafter.
• Perform environmental rounds to ensure safe room guidelines are being maintained.
• Respond to remote telesitter escalation for face-to-face intervention.
• Notify Nurse and/or charge Nurse when face to face redirection is required.
• Transport patients via stretcher or wheelchair, ensuring patient safety.
• Transport unit supplies, equipment, and patient medications.
• Monitor patients in restraint / seclusion, performing frequency of monitoring as per policy.
• Document monitoring as per policy and notify nurse of abnormal findings or observation.
• Recognize cardiac rhythms and communicate findings to registered professional as appropriate (Site specific Kennestone ED).
• Provide accurate patient information for each monitor in use.
• Clean and maintain monitors and pumps in the monitor room.
• Assure patient care area is appropriately stocked.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Benefits

• Support to do more meaningful work
• Rewarding life