The Triage & First Aid nurse provides clinical management for acute, work-related, and non-work-related medical emergencies for employees in an automotive manufacturing factory.

• Works with emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to respond to acute medical emergencies. Most work will be conducted from a dedicated Triage and First Aid facility but may require field response to support on site EMT and/or Paramedic.
• Provides clinical assessment, triage, first aid treatment and/or stabilization, disposition (i.e., return to work or home; referral to emergency room, urgent care, or external physician appointment; referral to personal physician for non-work-related conditions) and limited follow-up for an array of medical emergencies and minor emergencies including but not limited to:
• Work-related: orthopedic trauma including sprains, fractures, and acute-onset pain; burns, contusions, abrasions, and lacerations; crush and amputation injuries; eye injuries including foreign bodies; chemical, thermal (heat), electrical, and other environmental exposures.
• Non-work-related: near syncope (fainting), loss of consciousness, chest pain, headache, seizures, shortness of breath, dizziness, fever, abdominal pain; anaphylaxis, hives; panic attack, acute confusion, and other psychiatric decompensation; diabetic emergencies.
• Obtains documents and communicates verbally and in writing: focused history of injury or illness, pertinent medical history, mechanism of injury and other circumstantial and historical information to differentiate work-relatedness from non-work-relatedness; return to work or follow-up instructions to: Emergency Medicine physician (supervisor); employee (patient), EMT, supervisors, health, and safety managers (EHS), and the Workplace Health staff (see below).
• As a Tesla employee, reports to and works under the direct clinical supervision of an Emergency Medicine physician (independent contractor, off-site) and administrative supervision of the Tesla Workplace Health (workers’ compensation, incident investigation, employee advocates, and administrative management) staff. Currently those working in this position report to the manager of Tesla Emergency Services.

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited, four-year college or university.

• Currently licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Texas, in good standing with no disciplinary actions.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in emergency room, urgent care, or similar acute care environments encompassing the scope of acute medical emergencies described above. Additional clinical experience in outpatient/ambulatory/flight settings including workplace or occupational medicine clinic is preferred.
• Current training in Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Current training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
• Experience with and knowledge of workers’ compensation and private medical insurance, and OSHA recordability criteria, is preferred but not requisite.
• Experience with documentation in an electronic medical record (EMR)