Job Description
Tenet Desert is seeking a Endoscopy Technician for a job in Palm Springs, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Endoscopy Technician
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours
- Employment Type: Staff
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Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and Level I Trauma Center with an innovative, patient centered and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.
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GENERAL DUTIES:
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This position exists to assist patients to overcome their anxieties regarding the G.I procedure, to assist the physician performing G.I procedure, to maintain a safe and clean environment, to maintain the equipment used in the G.I. Lab, and escort patients. These duties will be under the supervision of a Registered Nurse in accordance with established policies and procedures. Demographic information, limited Patient Health Information related to job function.
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Shift: 7a-3:30p THIS POSITION WILL TAKE CALL
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Hours: 7a-3:30p M-F
- Competently assisting physicians with procedures including Colonoscopy, EGD and ERCP.
- Manual cleaning and disinfection of endoscopes accompanied by complete and accurate documentation insuring patient and employee safety.
- DSD disinfection potency checks and documentation per protocol.
- Insuring equipment is in proper working order and following repair protocol as required insuring patient and employee safety.
- DSD disinfectant changes at proper intervals or when ever potency is not achieved. Which ever come first.
- Accurate and complete documentation of disinfectant changes as well as proper disposal of used disinfectant per manufacture instructions.
- Filter changes at proper interval accompanied by accurate and complete documentation.
- Stocking workstations and ordering supplies insuring that all workstations are stocked and restocked after use.
- 24 hour PH Monitor set up.
- Ability to competentently assists physicians with procedures while on-call.
- Patient transport.
- Linen ordering, stocking and organization.
- Participation in device inservices and ongoing education.
- Work under the direction of a RN.
Tenet Desert Job ID #2503028877. Posted job title: Endoscopy Tech Full Time Days