About this role
- Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance.
- Collects, records, and reports various patient data.
- Obtains vital signs, blood glucose levels, bedside pregnancy testing, and reports changes in patient data to registered nurse. Obtains blood specimens by venipuncture or micro collection techniques, and assists nursing staff in collecting specimens from intra-vessel catheters.
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- Specialized education requirements include both:
- Acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or long term care nursing assistant course or completion of a clinical rotation while participating in an accredited nursing program or completion of medical training in a branch or the armed services
- Completion of course with externship in phlebotomy or completion of an emergency medical technician program or completion of medical assistant program.
- Recent patient care experience in acute care setting as nursing or medical assistant, EMT, or completion of a clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program.
- BLS certification
- Emergency Department experience.
- Experience in specimen collection (i.e. phlebotomy), specimen processing and distribution.
Other facts
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
What you'll do
- The Emergency Department Technician provides support to nursing staff and assists in patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse. Responsibilities include routine patient care services, collecting and reporting patient data, and assisting in specimen collection.
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