EmergencyTech

## Job Summary As an Emergency Department team member at Corewell Health, you'll play a vital role in providing top-quality care to our patients. Under the supervision of an RN, you'll perform delegated patient care tasks and be expected to meet all established competencies. You'll be a vital part of our team, making a real difference in the lives of our patients and their families. ## Essential Functions * Performs routine bedside nursing activities including ambulating, moving and turning patients, assisting patients with bedpans or urinary devices, making patient beds. Responsible for bagging and labeling all patient belongings and completing the patient property record on all admitted patients. * Performs higher level of patient care tasks as prescribed by established competencies, and as delegated by the supervising professional Registered Nurse in accordance with departmental policies and procedures which includes starting saline locks, simple suture removal (excluding face or complex lacerations) splinting, phlebotomy which includes (children draws over the age of 2), vital sign measurement, records intake and output and restraint application. * Reinforces the patient teaching plan by providing clarification, explanation and/or demonstration to patients/substitute decision-makers regarding treatments, procedures and aftercare. * Applies and changes sterile and non-sterile dressing using appropriate techniques. Applies ace bandage or elastic stockings as required. Assists in performing catheterizations, gives enemas, urine and stool testing, glucometer and EKG functions. * Gathers subjective and objective patient care data; gathers information from primary and secondary source such as direct observation/measurement, patient/significant other interviews, and the medical record. * Documents accurate, complete and precise patient information, interventions and responses in the patient’s medical record. Performs discharge function under the direct supervision of t