Emergency Technician - UnityPoint Health

Are you looking for a challenging and fast-paced job where no two days are the same…ever? St. Luke’s Cedar Rapids Emergency Department has been providing compassionate care to our community members of all ages (birth to end of life) 24 hours a day, 365 days per year for the last 140 years.  One minute, you may care for a patient with a sore throat.  The next minute you may be caring for a critically ill patient from a major motor vehicle collision.  Our Emergency Department team members are experts in critical care and stabilization.

Why choose UnityPoint Health St. Luke’s Emergency Department?

• Develop and refine strong critical thinking skills ensuring the best patient outcomes
• Learn to quickly adapt to urgent situations, work autonomously, and think at a higher level
• Treat a variety of injuries, illnesses, and complications while working with patients of all ages and backgrounds.
• You will have the opportunity to work with a large collaborative healthcare team.  The team includes a supportive nursing leadership team, nurses, paramedics, patient care technicians, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, board certified emergency medicine doctors, social work, care coordination, pharmacists, and physical therapists.  We are also the community site rotation for EM residents from the University of Iowa
• Opportunity for lifelong learning
• Level 3 Trauma Center
• Accredited Chest Pain Center with Resuscitation with ACC
• Accredited Primary Stroke Center
• Four time Magnet Hospital
• Led the UPH system for best patient satisfaction with NRC for 3 years

Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum (TNCC) and other certifications offered

Why UnityPoint Health?

• Culture – At UnityPoint Health, you matter. Come for a fulfilling career and experience a culture guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what's right for the people we serve.
• Benefits – Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options like 401K match, paid time off and education assistance that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment – We’re committed to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
• Development – We believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is an essential part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.
• Community Involvement – Be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

    Hear more from our team members about why UnityPoint Health is a great place to work at https://dayinthelife.unitypoint.org.

Patient Care

• Partners with the RN and other healthcare team members to achieve patient care outcomes and goals of care, as identified in the plan of care.
• Obtains records and/or accurately enters data into the EMR, as identified in the PCT Scope of Practice. Competency validation and documentation of skill performance is required.
  • Vital signs per department policy
  • Weights
  • Intake and output
  • Intentional Rounding
  • Other appropriate patient observations
• Performs specific tasks as directed by the RN and other healthcare team members, following competency validation.
  • Perform blood glucose testing
  • Empty waste devices (urinals, hats, bedpans) promptly and record I & O if applicable
  • Perform bladder scans
  • Set up simply oxygen therapy (nasal cannula), ability to change from wall to portable oxygen tank    
  • Perform pulse oximetry
  • Assist with safe patient handling
  • Assist with patient transport via wheelchair or stretcher
  • Perform linen changes
  • Delivers water, coffee, ice, and/or other nourishments as needed
  • Returns soiled food trays to cart
  • Promptly responds to call lights
  • Assists with prompt room turnover between patients
  • Provides assistance to health care team members as required
  • Perform and transmit EKG’s house-wide on nights
  • Insert foley catheters (NOT to insert Caude catheters)
  • Remove IV catheters
  • Maintain ultrasound and scopes
  • Stock patient care rooms
  • Stock carts
  • Provide 1:1 sitting with Behavioral Health (BH) patients
  • Transport admitted BH patients with Security to inpatient units
  • Transport stable patients
  • Transport monitored patients who have not had chest pain in the department and are not on IV medications or receiving blood        
  • Set up/assist with procedures
    • Suturing
    • Casting
    • Pelvics
    • Lumbar Punctures
• May assist with responsibilities of the Unit Secretary, per department expectations and appropriate competency validation.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living.
  • Assist with patient ambulation, with or without assistive devices
  • Application of Ortho Appliance
• Provide Crutch fitting and education
• May assist in transporting medications that are not controlled substances from pharmacy delivery devices to medication storage areas on patient care unit, as well as transporting medications from patient care unit to pharmacy.
• Demonstrates an awareness of patient and personal safety.

Effective Communication

• Demonstrates good verbal and written communication skills with patients, families, healthcare team members and other customers. Verbal communication is clear and precise. Written communication is legible, if handwritten, and done in a timely manner using approved abbreviations.
• Verbally presents factual, concise, and timely information and/or patient care data to the RN, the healthcare team, patients and/or family members in a professional manner.
• Real-time EMR documentation is done in accordance with hospital and unit policies.
• Hand-offs will be done with attention to detail and with safety as a high priority. Hand-offs are utilized to communicate patient treatment and assessment information, patient education needs, goals of care and other quality care measures at each change of caregiver or setting of care.
• Collaborates with healthcare team to provide patient care.
  • Consults with RN and/or other healthcare team members, as appropriate.
  • Obtains instruction and supervision, as necessary, when implementing new or unfamiliar tasks or duties.
  • Complies with established department routines, policies and procedures.

Compliance

• Continually maintains and strives to enhance personal technical and clinical competence in all job related duties.
• Participates in mandatory education and department staff meetings, per established guidelines.
• Participates in shared governance and performance improvement activities at department and/or organizational level.
• Complies with established safety goals, infection prevention and risk management policies and procedures.

• High School diploma or GED
• Maintain current BLS certification
• Crisis Prevention Intervention Training (CPI)
• hends fluent English
• Be able to complete a basic computer course on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) through in-hospital training
• Must successfully complete in-hospital orientation and competencies.
• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.