Emergency Room Tech Job Description
Emergency Room Tech Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Emergency Room Tech Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Emergency Room Tech
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, EMT, CNA, CPR, PCT, IV, ACLS, AHA, PALS, BCLS
Education for Emergency Room Tech
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the emergency room tech job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in Associates, Health, Paramedic, Education, Medical, Medical Terminology, Health Care, Certified Nursing Assistant, Patient Care, Medical Assistant
Skills for Emergency Room Tech
Desired skills for emergency room tech include:
Desired experience for emergency room tech includes:
Emergency Room Tech Examples
Emergency Room Tech Job Description
- Uses universal precautions 100% of the time
- Follows identified patient isolation requirements
- Performs good hand-washing techniques before, during, and after patient care 100% of the time
- Maintains exemplary clean and uncluttered patient environment
- Communicates in appropriate manner for patient level of understanding
- Maintains safe environment utilizing appropriate equipment and safety devices, based on patient’s age
- Performs procedures utilizing appropriate sized equipment and age parameters
- Demonstrates ability to recognize age specific parameters and implement age related care under the direction of the Registered Nurse
- Supports education by identifying and reporting patient/family responses to information
- Observes that restraints are tied properly
- Follows protocol for restraint use appropriate for scope of practice
- Reports any patient behavioral changes to the nurse
- Assists with patient ADL’s, toileting and feeding
- Observes and reports to the nurse skin integrity changes associated with restraints
- Responds immediately to patient attempting to leave bed
- Responds to call bells in a timely manner
Emergency Room Tech Job Description
- Perform personal care for patients and other assigned duties as assigned under the direct supervision and guidance of professional nursing personnel in assigned area
- Acts as unit clerk
- Ability to remain calm and focused during in stressful and/or emotionally charged situations
- Basic hands-on computer knowledge and MSOffice applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Formal training in radiology technology of AMA approved program
- Minimum of one year Radiologic experience
- Minimum one year CT experience preferred
- Registration by the ARRT (R)(CT)
- 1 hour of Hip & Knee Surgery Education within 6 months of hire date, then annually
- Serves as a departmental liaison for pre-hospital services
- EMT- certification or LPN license in Colorado
- IV certification and Current BLS certification required from American Heart Association
- Compassion, excellence, and a passion for what you do
- California Nursing Assistant (CNA) license OR has completed 2ndSemester of an RN program OR EMT Certification
- BLS certification, Dysrhythmia certification
- High School Graduate or equivalent, completion of a recognized Clinical Assistant
Emergency Room Tech Job Description
- Actively participates in the assurance of a safe environment
- Assists in the provision of support service to the ED, assisting in transports, obtaining supplies & drugs
- Provides supportive care to patients under the direct supervision of an RN
- Able to ventilate a patient with an ambu-bag and suction patients as needed which must be under the direct supervision of an RN or provider
- Performs electrocardiogram within the designated timeframe
- Assists patients to unclothe themselves and place patients on the monitor as indicated
- Responds to stroke alerts in the ED and safely transports patients as outlined in the policy
- Provides supportive care and comfort by answering patient call lights, anticipating patient needs, and reporting observations to the RN
- Obtains vital signs, weights, intake and output (I &O), and blood sugars
- Maintains cart and supplies on the unit required for daily operations
- Certified Nursing Assistant program with acute care experience OR
- Current BLS certification through AHA required
- Previous nursing assistant or emergency medical technician experience or a nursing student with 2 clinical rotation’s required
- Ability to establish constructive relationships with patients and other health care personnel
- Participates in purposeful Hourly Rounding
- Provides relief for the Health Unit Coordinator and the Quick Registration Technician
Emergency Room Tech Job Description
- Current Florida State Nursing Assistant or Emergency Medical Technician certification
- Basic electrocardiogram course (Preferred)
- Ability to float between assignments
- Basic hands-on computer knowledge and MS Office Word
- One hour of Hip & Knee replacement surgery education required within 6 months of hire date, then annually
- Provides direct patient care, as directed by RN, such as perform point of care testing, check vital signs and measurements, and collection of urine and stool specimens
- Stocks rooms with supplies and clean linen
- Other duties as assigned by RN or physician
- Demonstrates competence and proficiency in obtaining vital signs and weights
- Assists with application of splints, ice packs, catheter insertions, , as directed
- At least 2 years of experience as a paramedic
- Certification or license as a paramedic
- ACLS and PALS within 6 months of employment
- Minimum of two years experience as certified nursing assistant or patient care technician, and/or either EMT or EMT-I certification or completed first semester of a Bachelor of Nursing-Nursing program
- Skilled in completing electrocardiogram (or competency within one 30 days of hire)
- 12 Lead EKG Certification
Emergency Room Tech Job Description
- Assists with discharge of patients as requested by nursing staff
- Updates waiting patients to department crisis and/or extra busy time
- Notifies appropriate departments of special procedures that need to be done
- Orthopedic applications
- Sterile procedures
- Maintaining patient rooms and stocking supplies
- Under the general supervision of the Director of Emergency and Trauma Services, the EMT identifies and implements interventions that have less predictable outcomes
- The EMT is responsible for treatments as prescribed by the physician
- Through direct care, observation, and communication with the patient, collect and document patient admission and shift, behavioral and physical clinical data and observations
- Provide appropriate information to assist RN with admission and shift RN assessments
- Previous experience in nursing assistance (basic patient care), patient transportation, ordering and stocking inventory, other patient related activities or ER/EMT/Paramedic experience preferred
- Trauma Nurse Care Course (TNCC) (Preferred)
- This position is a12 hour, Per diem, Variable shift
- If hired with EMT certification, the certification must be kept current throughout employment
- High school or eqiuvalency required
- CNA work experience