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EMT - Emergency Department
Embark on a rewarding career with Hi-Desert Medical Center hospital. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.
At Hi-Desert Medical Center, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Career development and continuing education opportunities
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
Description
Shift: Days Rotating
Hours: 7:00a-7:30p
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview:
- Provides patient care within scope of practice and knowledge of department policy, procedure and job description Correctly prioritizes tasks and orders completing them within 20 minutes
- Provides self-directed assistance to team members. Gives and takes direction effectively
- All documentation is complete legible, correct and current
- Cleans and prepares treatment areas between patients
- Assures supplies and equipment is in correct working order
- Identifies and intervenes on issues of patient, visitor and staff safety
- Keeps families informed appropriately
- Complaints are investigated and reported
- Takes and gives direction effectively
- Communicates problems appropriately in the correct forum
- Attends staff meetings, reads email and other key documents and responds to inquiries promptly
- Has department project, gives 2 department specific in-services/year and attends 12
- Accepts professional responsibility and accountability for professional actions
- Uses critical thinking skills in daily practice
- Promotes teamwork by participating with the healthcare team and communicates appropriately and effectively.
- Assumes responsibilities of Unit Coordinator when UC not on duty.
Qualifications
Position Qualifications:
- Physical Demands
- Assists with lifting and moving patients
- Moderate physical effort (lift/carry up to 25 lbs.)
- Occasional prolonged standing/walking
- Occasionally lifts supplies/equipment
- Occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching
- Working Conditions
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
- Regularly exposed to risk of blood borne diseases
- Occasional exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness)
- Handles emergency or crisis situations
- Performs emergency care
Minimum Education/Certification
- High School or equivalent
- Current EMT certification
- Current BLS certification
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Desert Care Network serves the healthcare needs of the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin regions in Southern California with three hospitals Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree. The hospital network provides advanced care with services such as comprehensive stroke care, a cancer center, a Level 1 Trauma Center and the only Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Coachella Valley. Desert Care Network is committed to healthcare equality. Join our team!
2503031039Pay Range: $24.00 - $27.43 hourly **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience
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