Medical Technician - Pearl Rd. Surgery Center
- Job Title
- Medical Technician - Pearl Rd. Surgery Center
- Job ID
- 27703826
- Location
- Middleburg Heights, OH 44130
- Other Location
- Description
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Job Purpose:
The Medical Technician is critical to the overall performance and efficiency of the surgery center. This position interacts with all of the various facets of the company, its patients, all center team members and physician offices.
Role and Responsibilities:
The Medical Technician is responsible for knowing the location of equipment and supplies and maintain equipment cleanliness. Stocks surgical supplies, keeps caps, masks, and shoe covers rocked, distributes clean linens to all appropriate areas. Assist patients to urinals, bedpans and emesis basins. Provide basic patient care-patient treatments (application of heat and cold, sterile dressings, incentive spirometry, indwelling catheter care, aspetic preparation of intravenous line and suction tubing, accucheck), monitor intake and output and obtaining and documenting vital signs and reporting any abnormalities to the supervising RN. Initiate CPR and other emergency measures as required. Transfer patients appropriately based on patient condition and procedure. Organizing Home going instructions. Answer telephones and transfer calls to appropriate person if necessary. Perform general delivery services for the facility and run errands as needed. Keep hallways free of clutter. Check/empty sharp containers throughout facility.
Qualifications:
Cooperative work attitude towards coworkers, management, patients, visitors and physicians.
Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies and general public.
Ability to make decisions and solve problem.
Requirements:
High school diploma or GED certificate.
Strong ethical and moral character references.
Basic Life Support certification.
Completion of an approved Patient Care Assistant course or certification of completion of an accredited health education program or one year on the job experience and education.
Preferred Skills:
Assistant/medical technician experience.
ASC experience.
Required Competencies
Excellent judgment, dependability, conscientious performance. Detail oriented. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathetic. High ethical standards. Mechanical ability and manual dexterity for operating complicated equipment.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, employee is required to walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must lift and/or move 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, speech clarity, climb, balance, and stoop, kneel, and bend.
Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to environmental risk of radiation exposure, and biohazard exposure.
