Emergency Department Technician

Mclaren-Health-Care; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care is seeking a nursing assistant to support nursing staff and assist in delivering patient care across hospital settings. Under RN supervision, you will respond to call lights, assist with mobility, hygiene, and daily activities while adhering to policies and standards.

You will collect data, obtain vital signs and lab specimens as needed, document findings, and report changes to the registered nurse.

Qualifications

• Recent patient care experience in acute care setting as nursing or medical assistant, EMT, or completion of a clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program.
• BLS certification is preferred.
• Phlebotomy exposure or training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provides routine patient care such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance.
• Collects, records, and reports various patient data.
• Obtains vital signs, blood glucose levels, bedside pregnancy testing, and reports changes in patient data to registered nurse.
• Obtains blood specimens by venipuncture or micro collection techniques, and assists nursing staff in collecting specimens from intra-vessel catheters.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs

Phlebotomy

Medical data recording

Team collaboration

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Acute care nursing assistant course

Long term care nursing assistant course

Clinical rotation in accredited nursing program

EMT program

Medical assistant program

BLS certification

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient care following hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and standards of care.

• Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance.
• Collects, records, and reports various patient data.
• Obtains vital signs, blood glucose levels, bedside pregnancy testing, and reports changes in patient data to registered nurse. Obtains blood specimens by venipuncture or micro collection techniques, and assists nursing staff in collecting specimens from intra-vessel catheters.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Specialized education requirements include both:
• Acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or long term care nursing assistant course or completion of a clinical rotation while participating in an accredited nursing program or completion of medical training in a branch or the armed services
• Completion of course with externship in phlebotomy or completion of an emergency medical technician program or completion of medical assistant program.
• Recent patient care experience in acute care setting as nursing or medical assistant, EMT, or completion of a clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program.
• BLS certification

Preferred:

• Experience in specimen collection (i.e. phlebotomy), specimen processing and distribution.

Additional Information:

• Daily Work Times: Varies
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

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McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.