ED Observation Unit Tech- Full Time, Days

Baptist Health; Louisville, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Louisville, KY, seeks an Observation Unit Tech to support nursing staff and perform selected clinical and clerical tasks in the Observation Unit.

The role includes assisting with EKGs, venipuncture, splint applications, and patient care activities, while handling unit secretary duties under RN supervision.

Full-time position with 36 hours weekly, requiring high school diploma and BCLS certification within 90 days.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent with health care experience.
• BCLS certification within 90 days of hire.
• Complete hospital-based monitor tech training within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Performs desk duties in a clerical role with high accuracy at the nurses station.
• Answers phones using proper etiquette; logs calls and relays messages to nursing staff.
• Assists with patient care: EKGs, splint application, crutch training, and specimen collection.
• Cleans, stocks, and maintains unit; notifies resources for broken equipment.
• Ensures safe environment and maintains unit census awareness.

Skills

Monitor tech duties

Clerical tasks

EKG support

Venipuncture

Crutch training

Phone etiquette

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

BCLS certification within 90 days

Hospital-based monitor tech training within six months

Job description

Summary Job Description: Weekly Hours: 36 Shift: 1st Status: Full Time Job Summary: The Observation Unit Tech assists the nursing and medical staff by performing selected procedures and tasks for the care of the Observation Unit patients. They also perform duties as Unit Secretary/ Monitor tech, thus having both a clinical and clerical aspect to their role. All functions must be within the scope of training and instruction received and is under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Performs desk duties in a clerical role with high levels of accuracy. Serve as monitor tech for the unit Answers phones utilizing proper telephone etiquette Screens phone calls and forwards requests and messages appropriately Enters calls utilizing the call log Answers call lights and relays messages to appropriate nursing personnel Acknowledges and assists all internal and external customers upon arrival at the nurses station Ensures ongoing and accurate awareness of unit census and patient needs
2. Provides care appropriate to the observation population and maintains the environment of care. Assists in patient care with EKG’s, splint application, crutch training and other patient care as assigned or identified. Performs and documents appropriate patient procedures according to hospital policy and procedure. Performs duties that enhance organization of patient care on the unit. Cleans and stocks the department when time allows between patients. Notifies appropriate resources upon identifying broken, missing, or equipment out of stock. Maintains a safe environment in patient care. Obtains blood specimens via venipuncture and labels specimens appropriately.

Minimum Education, Training, and Experience Required:

1. High School diploma or equivalent with recent experience in a health care setting providing patient care.
2. BCLS certified with in the first 90 days.
3. Complete hospital-based monitor tech training within six months of hire.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement:

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.