Role Summary
EMT-B / EMT-A or Paramedic for Grifols Plasma Donation Center. Provide donor screening and medical assessment to determine donor suitability; build rapport with donors; ensure confidentiality; manage donor injuries and adverse events; educate donors on general health and counseling regarding test results. Requires current licensure as EMT/Paramedic or RN/LPN/LVN, with CPR certification. Location: Provo, Utah.
Responsibilities
- Perform physical examination and establish medical history to determine donor suitability
- Build rapport with donors to ensure overall customer satisfaction
- Ensure donor and staff confidentiality
- Responsible for donor awareness to potential hazards
- Provide donor education regarding general health and counseling regarding unacceptable test results
- Evaluate and manage donor injuries and adverse events
- Perform evaluations of any history of illness or medications to ensure continued donor suitability
- Assist in employee training
- Administer employee Hepatitis Vaccine program
Qualifications
- Required: Educated and currently certified/licensed in the state of employment according to state requirements as EMT, Paramedic, RN, LPN, or LVN. Current CPR certification.
Additional Requirements
- Work is performed both standing and sitting for up to 2 to 4 hours per day
- Bending and twisting of neck up from 1 to 2 hours per day
- Frequent hand movement with the ability to make fast, simple movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists
- Ability to make precise, coordinated movements to grasp and manipulate objects
- Frequent foot movement; may squat, crouch or sit on one's heels on rare occasion. Occasionally walks, bends and twists at waist
- Light lifting of 15lbs. with a maximum lift of 50lbs. May reach below shoulder height. Hearing acuity essential
- Color perception/discrimination, near vision and far vision correctable in one eye to 20/30 and to 20/100 in the other eye
- Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
- Works independently and within guidance of oral or written instructions
- Performs a wide range of tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions
- Relates sensitive information to diverse groups. Work is performed in a plasma center
- Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms
- Exposure to electrical office and laboratory equipment
- Exposure to extreme cold below 32 degrees F while performing functions in plasma freezers. Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments, gloves and cold-gear