Facility: 1800 Parkway Center

Join Our WEST Float Team at WellStar!

Are you ready to make a difference? Join the WellStar Enterprise Support Team (WEST) in our Float Pool! This exciting opportunity allows you to work across various facilities based on staffing needs, utilizing your unique skills to provide exceptional patient care wherever you’re needed most.

Why Join Us? As a member of the WEST Float Team, you'll:

• Impact Lives: Play a vital role in delivering high-quality care across the WellStar network.
• Diverse Experience: Float to different units, expanding your clinical expertise and gaining valuable experience.
• Supportive Environment: Work collaboratively with a dynamic team committed to excellence.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Patient Care Support:

• Take and document vital signs, promptly notifying nurses of abnormalities.
• Perform 12-lead EKGs and report results to ED physicians.
• Conduct bedside blood sugar testing and inform nurses of abnormal readings.
• Apply extremity splints, provide crutch ambulation training, and assist with basic wound care.

Aseptic and Technical Procedures:

• Assist with urethral catheterization, sterile tray prep, dressing changes, and phlebotomy.

Telesitter Facility Liaison:

• Manage and troubleshoot tele-sitter carts, ensuring seamless operation and connectivity.
• Perform safety checks and respond to remote tele-sitter escalation for face-to-face intervention.

Patient Transport & Equipment Handling:

• Safely transport patients, equipment, and medications across departments, utilizing proper body mechanics.

Monitor & Observe Cardiac Activity:

• Recognize cardiac rhythms and report findings to the nursing team.
• Maintain and clean cardiac monitors and pumps.

Patient Monitoring & Documentation:

• Monitor patients in restraint or seclusion, ensuring policy compliance and documenting observations.
• Keep patient care areas stocked with necessary supplies.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other duties as needed to ensure efficient delivery of patient care.
• Comply with all WellStar Health System policies, standards, and ethical guidelines.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED required.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of direct patient care experience in an Emergency Department.

Certifications:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association, required.