GID Lab Technician / Diagnostic Treatment Center - Emory Healthcare

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6:30am - 5:00pm/ Full Time/ 40 Hours, 10 hour shift.

Salary range - $19.36- $26.36

We're seeking a GI Lab Tech for Emory Decatur Hospital responsible for being a capable certified technician who cares about the quality of their work an ensuring the safety for all patients. 

This individual will:    

• Assists the physician in performing all routine and complex gastro-intestinal diagnostic procedures.
• Orients and trains lower level technicians, provides pre and post-operative education to patients, reviews procedure schedule and makes suggestions to improve workflow.
• Deals directly with other hospital departments to schedule patient procedures, order supplies, or conduct in-service education to other staff members of the hospital.
• Performs techniques using specialized equipment such as endoscopes, light sources, and GID accessory equipment, cautery and photocoagulation, monitoring equipment, peritoneoscopy equipment, motility machines, or other related equipment; performs preventive maintenance on equipment and troubleshoots equipment problems.
• Knows inventory standards and location of equipment and supplies; communicates low inventory to manager and orders supplies from other departments.
• Properly disposes of broken equipment. Sets up and assists the gastroenterologist with procedures such as gastroscopy, dilatation, colonoscopy, electrocoaugtery, flexible protoscopy, anoscopy, peritoneoscopy, liver biopsy, sclerosis, motility, secretin studies, gastric analysis, small bowel endoscopy, transesophageal cardiography, or other procedures. Assists the gastroenterologist with specimen collection for biopsy, cytology, fecal, viral cultures, duedenal aspirate, and others. Operate EKG and other monitoring equipment, discontinue IV fluids, begin and assist in CPR, administer oxygen, monitor vital signs during endoscopy or recovery room procedures and notify the physician of any abnormalities or significant changes. Under nursing or physician supervision, may draw-up and administer medications.
  
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Two years Gastro-Intestinal Diagnostic Laboratory Technician experience.

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