MULTI-CARE TECH - CARDIOTHORACIC STEP-DOWN UNIT

EAMC MISSION

At East Alabama Medical Center, our mission is high quality, compassionate health care, and that statement guides everything we do. We set high standards for customer service, quality, and keeping costs under control.

POSITION SUMMARY

Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education. Utilizes standards, guidelines, protocols, or pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information to continuously improve care and practice to enhance outcomes. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development. Will provide care as a team with the nurses such as but not limited to:

Obtaining vital signs

Obtaining Blood Glucose readings

Helping patient with mealtime feedings

Bathing

Patient restroom assistance and cleaning

Ambulation of the patient

Grooming

Lifting, turning, and repositioning of patients in beds and chairs

Blood draws for patient labs

Collaborating with nurses, MDs, and other patient care specialties

Emptying and obtaining wound or surgical drain output

Wound or surgical incision site dressing changes

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education

High School Diploma or 10 years of relevant experience

Minimum Experience

No prior experience is required.

EAH will provide on the job training: medical terminology class, phlebotomy clinical, BLS class, and 1-on-1 training with an MCT in your department.

Required Registration/License/Certification

BLS must be obtained within 90 days of hire date. EAH will provide.

Preferred Education

N/A

Preferred Experience

1 year or more of Med/ Surg MCT experience.

Preferred Registration/License/Certification

N/A

Other Requirements

N/A