Position Summary:
To perform skilled tasks and prescribed procedures in the care of patients, under the direction of a licensed professional nurse; to perform routine nursing tasks, under the direction of a licensed professional nurse; and to perform duties supportive of nursing services.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care, performing delegated data collection, treatments and procedures in accordance with standards.
- Implements nursing directives communicated by the Registered Nurse, shift report, patient therapy profile, and nursing plan of care.
- Instructs patients and families as delegated.
- Responds to patient call bells, and notifies the Registered Nurse as necessary.
- Maintains the tidiness and cleanliness of patients’ rooms and patient care areas.
- Maintains designated equipment in appropriate working order, reporting needed repairs.
- Inventories and stocks designated instruments, equipment, and supplies.
- Maintains aseptic technique when handling sterile equipment/supplies and/or assisting with or performing invasive procedures.
- Handles clean and soiled linen, supplies, and equipment and disposes of waste materials in accordance with protocols and procedures.
- Ensures completion of requisition forms and/or patient charge forms when indicated.
- Documents pertinent observations and nursing procedures performed on the appropriate chart forms, in accordance with protocols and procedures.
- Reports patient problems, patient incidents or changes in patient status to a Registered Nurse or supervisor.
Requirements
- ER Tech needed to work rotating shfits.
- Successful completion of a planned program of study preparing participants to provide care to patients, current licensure as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a nursing student who has successfully completed Level I of Nursing clinical skills required.
- Successful completion of a unit clerk certificate program, or successful completion of at least 2 years in an accredited school of professional nursing, or one year previous experience as a unit secretary in a hospital setting preferred.
- Two years patient care experience preferred.
Location: Crozer Health · 7010 - Emergency Room
Schedule: FR =Full-time Regular, 0 =Rotating Shifts, 7p-7a with rotation