Job Description

With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation’s only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.  

 
Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Emergency Department (ED) Technician in the Emergency department , who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence.  

As a ED Technician , you will:

• Under the direction of the RN, performs technical duties and selected treatments, procedures and activities which contribute to safe and efficient delivery of patient care including insertion of intravenous lines/Heparin locks, EKG's (telemetry monitoring) and implement the patient plan of care.
• Assists with patient care, such as personal hygiene, special skin care, ambulation, transfer and treatment procedures, including enemas, ostomy care, oral suctioning, catheterization, bed making, and sterile dressings.
• Makes regular patient visits to provide all patients with quick response to their needs. Assists in ambulation and range of motion.
• Observes, documents and monitors vital signs. Measures and records intake (fluid/food) and output (bodily functions/bodily drainage).
• Practices infection control procedures and observes Standard Precautions (including appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment). Performs minor housekeeping tasks to keep patient areas clean.
• Collects specimens, including venipuncture, properly labels all specimens and assists nursing staff with proper requisitioning.
• Assists with obtaining basic patient information as part of the nursing history or ongoing assessment and reports abnormal values or changes in patients’ condition to the appropriate nurse or supervisor.
• Runs errands, procures equipment and sets up equipment.
• Assumes other duties and responsibilities that are related and appropriate to the position and area. The above responsibilities are a general description of the level and nature of the work assigned to this classification and are not to be considered as all-inclusive.

Qualifications include:

• High school degree or GED diploma is required.
• Completion of an approved health care training program beyond high school (i.e., CNA, EMT or PCT Training Program), preferred.
• Will accept candidates who have completed a practical nursing (LPN) or registered nursing (RN) “Fundaments of Nursing” course and acute care clinical which include skills specified in the PCT regulations; or
• Foreign Nursing education with proof of credentials evaluation by an organization recognized by the DC Board of Nursing, indicating equivalent education as an RN or LPN.
• Completion of an approved phlebotomy course is preferred.
• One (1) or more years hands-on experience as a Patient Care Tech, EMT or Paramedic is preferred;

Will also accept:

• Minimum of one thousand (1,000) work hours within the last thirty-six (36) months as a:
  • Navy or Air Force basic medical technician corpsman;
  • Air Force independent duty medical technician;
  • Army health care specialist;
  • Emergency medical technician; or
  • Paramedic.
• Nursing Student with completion of at least one year of clinical rotation also acceptable.
• National Patient Care Technician Certification (DC approved); or
• Certification through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT), preferred.
• Certification through the American Heart Associations in Basic Life Support Health Care Provider is required.    

Position Details:

• Job Type/FTE: Full-time (0.9 FTE)
• Shift:   Days (7:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.)
• Work Location:   Washington, DC
• Unit/Department:   Emergency Department
• CBA Code: (DCNA/2094/Non-union) : 2094-10
• Pay Range:  $17.50 - $27.84
  • Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility.

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