Emergency Department Technician – Clinical Secretary

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our ED Tech, you will provide crucial support and direct patient care in the fast-paced Emergency Department, ensuring efficient operations and compassionate assistance during critical moments.Every day you will expertly assist with patient admissions and discharges, perform vital signs and basic medical procedures, maintain a clean and organized environment, and meticulously document observations to support the nursing staff and physician team.To be successful, you will demonstrate outstanding adaptability, strong communication skills, and a calm, proactive demeanor, contributing significantly to timely patient care and a smooth-running ED.

• Consistently, accurately & timely: transcribes physician orders. 100% accuracy is the goal.
• Correctly transcribes orders in EHR system, and signs off orders per FHMC policy
• Correctly transcribes orders during downtime procedures.
• Notifies appropriate staff of medication and treatment orders.
• Consistently, accurately & timely: places patient stickers on patient charts, faxes orders to pharmacy, sends charts to medical records after discharge & adds chart forms as needed.
• Consistently, accurately & timely: files chart forms, duplicates medical records as needed, orders supplies & initiates follow-through with maintenance requests

Job Requirements

Required

• Successful completion of Emergency Medical Technician program
• Acute care and clinical secretary experience
• Completion of approved Unit Clerk class or equivalent
• Basic Life Support - CPR
• Certified Nursing Assistant: CA or Emergency Medical Technician: CA or Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

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