This position provides technical skills and communicates effectively with supervisors, department staff, physicians, and ancillary staff.
The demands on this position are very dynamic due to rapid changes in medical procedures, technical knowledge, instrumentation, equipment, and policies and procedures. This position ensures that equipment is working properly before procedures, cares for equipment after procedure, and is responsible for reporting equipment that is not working properly or is broken.
Other related duties and flexible hours may be requested. This position has the freedom to rotate work areas and duties as needed and/or directed.
Incumbent must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, motor/sensor, psychosocial, and safety appropriate to the neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, geriatric, and trauma patient population served and meet standards of quality as measured by the unit/department age specific competency standards.
Requires completion of a medical terminology course, or a passing grade on a medical terminology test.
Requires the ability to perform a twelve lead EKG.
Must have successfully passed the unit clerk skills checklist, the tech. skills checklist during orientation and annually maintain competency as verified through completion of Competency Day in the respective department.
Requires successful completion of trauma pathway. (We can provide a pathway for the PICU tech)
Must successfully complete trauma technician skills checklist, which includes but not limited to trauma documentation, maintaining cervical spinal immobilization, assisting in various trauma related procedures, appropriate chain of custody for gunshot or stab wound patients, and designation of appropriate trauma staff.
This position does provide patient care.
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