Emergency Room Licensed Vocational Nurse LVN - The Golden Triangle

Job Description

Description:

Join Our Team at Exceptional Emergency Center – Golden Triangle Region!

Locations: Port Arthur & Orange

Are you looking for an exciting career in emergency medicine? Exceptional Emergency Center offers a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with top-tier benefits, competitive pay, and amazing incentives! Join a team that values compassion, excellence, and teamwork while providing high-quality emergency care to the Golden Triangle Area.

Why Work with Us?

Competitive Pay & Shift Differentials

Sign-On & Retention Bonuses

Flexible Scheduling Options

Comprehensive Benefits & 401(k) Matching

Supportive & Collaborative Work Culture

Come be a part of Exceptional’s premier freestanding emergency center and make a difference every day!

The Emergency Room Tech provides technical support for physicians and nurses in the Emergency Center. The purpose of this position is to assist and support the nursing and medical staff of the Emergency Department, to perform patient care, and environmental tasks, and manage supplies and equipment to ensure the patient-focused, cost-effective operation of the department. The Emergency Room Tech will also be responsible for assisting the RN with performing education and observing chemical tests on patients or control specimens by clinical staff using the lab and correctly record appropriate results and uses and maintains all laboratory equipment correctly.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Performs vitals, blood draws, IV insertions, EKGs on patients when indicated.

Provides direct nursing care to assigned patients.

Participates in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the nursing care given. Performs admission, discharge, and transfer procedures.

Uses the nursing plan of care in daily assignments, able to review, and, under supervision, modify the plan of care.

Demonstrates ability to observe and record the signs, symptoms, and behaviors including the physiological status of patients, presents proposed revision of interventions, and desired outcomes.

Delivers the designated nursing interventions to assigned patients that are consistent with the stated medical plan of care.

Notifies appropriate nursing and medical staff of changes in patient status; recognizes patient care priorities, multidisciplinary treatment plans, and potential patient care crises.

Follows physician's orders in the delivery of nursing care.

Always maintains patient’s privacy and confidentiality of patient health information.

Safely and properly administers medications and treatments.

Executes written physician's orders for assigned patients.

Assembles equipment and supplies for various diagnostic or treatment procedures in the specialty service area; performs or assists others with procedures or treatments.

Adheres to required infection control, isolation procedures, and aseptic techniques in the delivery of patient care.

Documents nursing care in all assigned patient records.

Adheres to internal controls established for department.

Performs related duties as required. Requirements:

Qualifications Education & Experience

Licensure as a Licensed Vocational Nurse in the State of Texas.

Current BLS Certification

Language/Math/Reasoning Ability

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situation

Computer Skills

Basic computer skills

Physical Demands

Requires visual acuity to inspect and analyze work close to the eyes and ability to hear sound with or without correction; Ability to climb, stoop, kneel, reach, stand, walk pull, push lift, and able to exert up to 40 pounds of force occasionally and/or upto 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects

Moderate physical activity performing somewhat strenuous daily activities of a primarily administrative nature

The physical demands for this position include adequate vision, hearing, and repetitive motion

Ascending or descending stairs, ramps and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms

Substantial movements (motion) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers in a repetitive manner

Bending legs downward and forward by bending leg and spine

Standing, particularly for sustained periods of time

Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion

Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving object horizontally from position to position

Work Environment Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation

Full-time