• Job Description

  Req#: 11279

  REGISTERED NURSE TECH

  Position: RN-T

  Department: Emergency Department

  Reports to: Department Director

  Created: 4/10/25

  Job Summary

  Provides quality care that is dependent on physician order or directed by the RN/LPN. Delivers nursing interventions based on professional judgment in response to individualized patient needs. Promotes restorative health and/or supportive care using the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.

  Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Professional Responsibilities:
     o Adheres to scope of hospital policy
     o Maintains profession and technical knowledge and pursues professional growth opportunities
     o Participates as an essential part of the nursing team, assists the RN/LPN
     o Keeps access to protected health information secure and confidential
     o Collaborates with the RN/LPN to address patient needs
     o Appropriately seeks help or guidance from supervisor or other resource people
     o Adapts to change and prioritizes work
     o Demonstrates reliable attendance, reports on time and is ready to work at beginning of shift
     o Completes assigned duties, willingly accepts assignments and assist others to complete work on time
     o Willing to support unit’s staffing needs by occasionally adjusting work schedule, staying late or working extra
     o Establishes a safe, compassionate, caring environment for patients and their family
     o Establishes a safe, supportive work environment that promotes teamwork

  1. Core Duties:
     o Provides patient care by collecting, monitoring, and reporting information and responding to basic needs
     o Promotes patient engagement by considering specific needs, values and preferences
     o Promotes continuity of care by reporting activities, incidences, and changing patient needs to next caregiver
     o Demonstrates infection prevention behaviors, consistent hand washing and use of appropriate PPEs
     o Recognizes safety risk and communicates to RN/LPN regarding falls, skin breakdown and injury
     o Contributes to the department’s performance improvement activities
     o Demonstrates competency in performance of skills
     

  Qualifications

  Education and Experience

  RN Tech I is a student that is currently enrolled in the ADN/BSN RN program of an accredited School of Nursing Program and continuing education toward nursing licensure. RN Tech I has completed their 1st semester and is in their 2nd or 3rd semester of the RN program.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • CPR Certification

  Minimum Requirements

  Essential Skill Competencies:

  • CPR Certification
  • Accu-chek
  • Preventive skin care
  • Aseptic wound care/ dressing change
  • Phlebotomy and Foley insertion/care is postponed until student/employee has reached RN Tech II or at the discretion of the director based on employee performance.

  Working Conditions

  Frequently Continuously Sit, Walk, Seeing (Visual), Stand, Reach, Listening, Lift, Carry, Simple Grasping, Squat, Distinguishing colors, Bend Body, Fluids, Kneel, Firm Grasping, Climbing Stairs, Forearm Rotation, Hazardous Materials, Lifting up to 10lbs, Lifting 10-50lbs, Carrying Up to 10lbs, Lifting > 50lbs with assistance, Push on wheels Up to 200lbs, Carrying 10 to 20lbs, Use of Wheelchair, Push on wheels 200-400lbs, Use of Stretcher, Pulling Up to 350lbs with assistance Use of Carts, Use of Computer Exposure

  Classifications: High exposure risk

• About the company

  South Central Regional Medical Center is a 285-bed, public not-for-profit hospital located in Laurel, MS founded in 1952. The hospital primarily serves a 4-county area: Jones County, Jasper County, Wayne County and Smith County. The primary focus of th...

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