Endoscopy Technician jobs in Colorado

• Communicates processes and planned treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
• Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patients preparation for their procedure and continued care upon discharge.
• Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and/or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
• Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
• Conducts comprehensive health history interviews, determines when consultation by anesthesia or other specialist is required.
• Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence based practices, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
• Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; protection of natural reflexes until emergence from anesthesia; prevention of dehydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate point of care diagnostic testing; and plans interventions accordingly.
• Verifies patient identification; patients understanding of planned procedure by cross reference to signed consent; correct procedure site, side, & supplies; allergies and special needs before proceeding with planned procedure.
• Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing within the medical record. Acknowledges medical and surgical history, known allergies and patient presentation on admission to establish baseline. Conducts assessment and re-assessments before and following treatments, medications administered, and patient condition at time of transfer of care.
• Optimize patient experience by administering to careful planning and preparation for surgery/procedure based on physician orders, keeping patient comfortable and informed of preparation activities. Anticipates patient needs, case flow and organizes work flow to maintain efficiencies and time management.
• Consistently performs hand hygiene practices for the prevention of infection.
• Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and time management to optimize work flow.
• Concurrently participates in facility quality assessment and performance improvement activities identified by the organization.
• Protects patient privacy during direct patient contact and abides to HIPAA standards upholding the privacy and security of PHI and ePHI.
• Other responsibilities may be assigned.
• Recognizes all customer relations as vital to future business relationships and reputation.
• Interaction with customer is focused for the attainment of quality, safety and accomplishment of the expected outcomes.
• Conserves organizational resources, including supply consumption; judicious fiscal responsibility; and budgetary restraints.
• Develops cost saving measures and appropriations of essential resources and services.
• Responds appropriately to requests made by customers (Patient, Family, Physician, Peer, AHP, Industry Representative, Guest) in a prompt and effective manner.

Pay: From $43.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 – 24 per week

Medical specialties:

• Cardiology
• Critical & Intensive Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Medical-Surgical
• Surgery
• Telemetry

Physical setting:

• Outpatient

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Differential pay

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• BLS and ACLS certification (Preferred)
• Colorado STate Board of Nursing License (Preferred)

Work Location: In person