Description:
Position Summary
The EMT, under the direction of the Registered Nurse, act as a member of the healthcare team to perform
delegated patient care duties in the department assigned.
The EMT holds shift accountability for providing care to patients in accordance with RN direction, Physician direction, and recognized techniques, standards of practices and hospital policy and procedures.
Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers of patients. Performs a variety of routine patient care procedures, treatments and care activities for patients in assigned area according to hospital policy and procedures. Treatments performed may include simple dressing changes, wound care, enemas, urinary catheter insertion and care, ice and elevation of wounds, placement on or removal from bedpan, providing food to/or feeding of patients, other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications:
Education
Required: Graduate of an Emergency Medical Technician Program
Experience
Preferred: Emergency Medical Technician experience
Certifications
Required:
Current EMT-Basic (EMT-B) or EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I) certification. BLS.
CPI required within 3 months of hire.
Obtain six (6) hours of continuing education yearly
Successful completion of orthopedic test where applicable.
Job: Emergency/EMT/Paramedic
Primary Location: Bartlett, Tennessee
Facility: Saint Francis Hospital - Bartlett
Job Type: Full-time
Shift Type: Days
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicants or employees race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
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Dallas, TX
Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a multinational investor-owned healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Through its brands, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partnerships, including United Surgical Partners International (USPI), the company operates a number of facility types. At the end of 2018, Tenet had 115,500 employees and operated 68 hospitals with approximately 17,935 licensed beds, 23 surgical hospitals, and 475 outpatient centers. The company subsequently sold three hospitals in the Chicago area in January 2019, bringing the total hospital count to 65.
Since its founding in 1967, Tenet has expanded significantly. Among other major acquisitions and formations, Tenet founded Conifer Health Solutions in 2008, MedPost Urgent Care in 2014, and in 2013 acquired Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., an investor-owned hospital company whose operations complemented Tenet's existing business. The acquisition created the third-largest investor-owned hospital company in the United States in terms of revenue and the third-largest in number of hospitals owned. In 2015, Tenet acquired USPI, which created the largest operator of outpatient surgery centers in the United States. In 2018, the company ranked 147th in the Fortune 500.