About this role
Job Summary:
Performs selected nursing functions under the direction of the Registered Nurse. A credentialed non-licensed healthcare provider employed by Erlanger is responsible for direct and/or indirect care.
Education:
Required:
Will consider a nursing student (RN or LPN) within one year of graduating from an accredited nursing program.
Preferred:
Experience:
Required:
Medical background
Preferred:
Position Requirement(s): License/Certification/Registration
Required: BLS completed prior to going to the unit/department and to be maintained going forward.
Preferred:
Department Position Summary:
The employee must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. The employee must be able to care for patients requiring dressing changes, vascular checks, monitoring respiratory status, urine outputs, chest tubes, Vac-Pac's, glucose monitoring, etc. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span possessing the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the unit's policies and procedures.
Other facts
About Erlanger Health System
Erlanger, named among "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report, is a non-profit, academic teaching center affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Chattanooga. Erlanger is also a Level-One Trauma Center for adults and the only provider of tertiary care services for the citizens of an entire four-state region, encompassing southeast Tennessee, north Georgia, north Alabama and western North Carolina. With a history that dates back more than a century, Erlanger is recognized as one of the nation's finest public hospitals and a leader in healthcare.
The Erlanger hospital system includes Children's Hospital at Erlanger (CHE), the only academic medical center in the tri-state region devoted solely to children and is a Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Center (CRPC)— the highest designation in the state for pediatrics. CHE has a full range of pediatric subspecialists, as well as a pediatrics ER, ICU, and Level III neonatal intensive care unit, providing the highest level of care in the region for premature and sick infants.
Each year, more than one million people are treated by the team of healthcare professionals who are part of Erlanger.
What you'll do
- The Nurse Tech 1 performs selected nursing functions under the direction of a Registered Nurse, providing direct and indirect patient care. Responsibilities include monitoring patient status and performing various medical tasks as outlined in the unit's policies and procedures.
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