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Summary:

Assists with equipment management, patient transport, performance improvement activities and identifies and monitors patient rhythms and monitors and interprets EKGs

Schedule- 7am -7:30pm

Responsibilities:

1. Maintains an environment of safety for patients, self and others.

2. Assists with equipment management: troubleshooting, and routing for repair. Ensures availability of ultrasound devices IABP etc. and prepares for use.

3. Provides transport of patients to and from designated areas within the facility with service excellence and focus to the patient experience. Aids with transfer of patients from wheelchair, bed and stretcher.

4. Assists clinical staff with keeping rooms and central area, neat, clean and orderly, while making sure rooms are stocked with linens/supplies. Assists with inventory and dissemination of supplies.

5. Participates in QA with performance improvement initiatives.

6. Maintains appropriate communication with all coworkers and provides primary SBAR for patient handoff with prep and recovery units.

7. Properly identifies and monitors patient rhythms Monitors and interprets EKGs prior to and during procedures.

8. Uses Epic and Merge to document patients' status, delivery of care, and evaluation of the patient's response to care according to unit specific procedure and established protocols.

9. Assists with diagnostic and interventional procedures including responsibility for sheath pulls and groin management to ensure proper hemostasis.

10. Prepares patients for sterile procedures to include attaching EKGs, BP, pulse oximetry, oxygen and defibrillation pads.

11. Assesses and monitors patients' vitals and status prior to procedures.

12. Establishes Intravenous access and Foley placement when needed

13. Collects blood samples when needed in accordance with unit specific procedure and established protocols

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

• Requires high school diploma or general education diploma.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• Must have BCLS and EMT-P. ACLS required within 90 days of hire.

• EMT-P;ACLS;BCLS

Professional Experience Requirements:

• At least one year of paramedic experience.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

• LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clerical and clinical information and procedures. Ability to effectively communicate with staff, physicians, and patients/guests. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10?s and 100?s. REASONING ABILITY 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 usually standardized situations.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex Invasive Heart & Vascular

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range: $23.01 - $33.07 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.