Emergency Services Technician 1 - (Nights)

FMOLHS Career Portal; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

FMOLHS Career Portal is seeking an Emergency Department Technician to assist the charge nurse and support emergency outpatients. Responsibilities include patient transport, basic care, and coordinating with nurses during shifts.

The role requires phlebotomy experience, CPR training, and ability to work in a fast-paced hospital environment, with duties across the ED setting.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum one year phlebotomy experience.
• Experience in emergency department desired but not required; CPR training required.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients within the hospital and to vehicles.
• Assist with basic patient care including positioning and hygiene.
• Respond to call lights and communicate patient needs to nurses.

Skills

Phlebotomy

CPR

Teamwork

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Jackson, MS, United States

Job Description

Under the direct supervision of the charge nurse, assists with emergency outpatients and performs approved duties. Reports to the Nurse Manager, Charge Nurse, and/or Shift Supervisor.

Responsibilities

Job Function :

• 1. Transports patients using wheelchair or stretcher within the hospital and to and from vehicles. 2. Assists those patients requiring help with ambulation. 3. Provides general and basic patient care, such as positioning patients, lifting and turning, assisting in use of bedpan, commode, and urinal or bathroom. 4. Answers and responds to call lights or uses intercom to determine patient needs, and advises nurse of needs beyond scope of position. 5. Cleans and changes stretcher linen between patients and as needed during patient visit. 6. Empties dirty laundry. 7. Labels, bags, and delivers samples to lab per hospital protocol. 8. Assists patients to dress and undress and cares for patient belongings, including bagging and labeling same. Cares for valuable according to policy. 9. Restocks linen and supplies in exam rooms, fills blanket warmer, and provides general cleaning. 10. Answers phone calls, calls consulting physicians as directed by physicians and other staff members, makes appointments as directed by physicians or other staff members. 11. Reviews charge sheets and enters charges into AS-400. 12. Provides direct observation for confused or psychiatric patients. 13. Performs routine, uncomplicated treatment procedures such as splinting limbs, wound cleansing, taking vital signs, chaperones pelvic and rectal examinations. 14. Sets up for suturing and procedures, dismantles procedure set appropriately. 15. Immediately reports any observed changes in condition or behavior of patients and documents any care given. Immediately reports any unusual incidents to primary nurse, charge nurse, or nurse manager. 16. Responsible for daily checking and stocking of treatment rooms and procedural carts to ensure more efficient patient treatment. 17. Standard precautions are exercised with all patients and procedures. 18. Patients are appropriately identified prior to any intervention per hospital protocol. 19. Knowledge of institutions fire/safety/infection control programs is consistently demonstrated in practice. 20. Annual mandatory training activities are completed within established time frames. 21. Performs other duties as assigned or directed and within the scope of abilities.
• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty. Lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds with or without assistance. Transferring, repositioning patients. Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeing, and crouching for patient care functions. Visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties required. Optimal auditory acuity required. Manual dexterity involving the handling of equipment and instruments or needles is essential to performing assigned duties. Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment. Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests. Physical conditions are clean, neat and well lit. Maybe subjected to unpleasant sights and odors, stressful situations and hazardous or infectious agents where judgment as to precautions need to be taken is essential. Climate control and ambient temperature variances may be experienced. Exposure to limited amounts of hazardous chemicals or substances and infectious disease processes are a possibility. Hours of duty maybe irregular or unexpectedly extended due to emergency circumstances. Direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply. Personal protective equipment is made available and must be worn.

Qualifications

Education :

• A high school diploma or equivalent required.

Work Experience :

• Experience in emergency department desired but not required. Previous experience as an Emergency Room Technician or Operating Room Technician is preferred. Current CPR review required. Employee must demonstrate ability to recognize patients' individual needs based on medical conditions, age (infants, pediatrics, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged and geriatric), limitations and planned procedures. Requires ability to work well with others and to function in stressful situations, along with the ability to perform some special skills and operate special equipment.

Skills Abilities :

• Minimum one year phlebotomy experience required, preferably in a hospital or health care setting. In lieu of one year experience, successful completion of an approved phlebotomy training program may be accepted.

FMOL Health team members will only communicate with job applicants using official @fmolhs.org email addresses. If you receive any message regarding job opportunities or your application from a non @fmolhs.org email address, do not respond and report the message as phishing / spam and delete it.

• Job Identification 50357
• Job Category Clinical_Care
• Locations 969 Lakeland Dr, Jackson, MS, 39216, US
• Job Shift Evening/Night & Every Other Weekend Rotation
• Job Function Emergency Services
• Worker Type Employee
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Requisition Schedule Full-Time
• Hours of Schedule (e.g. M-F 8a-5p) 7p-7a
• Department Emergency Department-St Dominic Main Campus
• FMOLHS Company Code St Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital

FMOL Health team members will only communicate with job applicants using [e-mail] addresses. If you receive any message regarding job opportunities or your application from [e-mail] address, do not respondand report the message as phishing / spam and delete it.