Job Summary:
Under the supervision of the Registered Nurse and physician, the ED Tech I is responsible for assisting the Emergency Department staff and physicians in providing patient care and assisting during emergency patient care procedures. As a unit-clerk/ monitor technician is responsible for interpreting and monitoring the patient’s cardiac rhythm status, providing a variety of clerical duties relating to the updating and organization of information in the Emergency Department; and directing the flow of communication between other units and departments.
Licensure and Certification:
- Current CA EMT/Paramedic certification AND Current CA Phlebotomy (CPT) certification; OR current CA Paramedic licensure
- Current BLS provider card
- MAB certification
Education:
- High School graduate, GED or equivalent.
- Medical terminology course completion preferred
- Basic Dysrhythmia recognition class
Experience:
- 12-Lead EKG experience
- Previous experience in comparable position highly desired
Knowledge and Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Proficient reading, writing, grammar and math skills
- EKG interpretation and dysrhythmia recognition
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Basic computer skills
Physical Demands – Patient Care:
- Continuous standing/walking and occasional/intermittent sitting.
- Continuous use of bilateral upper extremities in fine motor activities requiring fingering, grasping, and forward reaching between waist and shoulder level to handle/operate medical equipment/devices.
- Frequent reaching above shoulder level and overhead.
- Frequent forward bending, twisting, squatting and kneeling; occasional climbing.
- Occasional repositioning and transferring patients weighing up to 200 pounds between bed, chair, and gurney.
- Occasional lifting and carrying equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Occasional/intermittent pushing of gurneys, wheelchairs, bed and other medical equipment over tiled and carpeted surfaces.
- Continuous use of near vision to read medical equipment such as monitoring devices and reading documents and computer screens; hearing and verbal communication to interact with patients, co-workers, and other customers.
Key for Physical Demands
Continuous
66 to 100% of the time
Frequent
33 to 65% of the time
Occasional
0 to 32% of the time
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