Unit Secretary - Acute MedSurgical A Job at CHRISTUS Health in New Braunfels

Overview

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Summary is provided under the direction of the Registered Nurse, performing clerical and non-nursing duties on the nursing units, including acting as a receptionist for the unit, transcribing orders, requesting items for patient care, and assisting with maintaining patient, unit, and hospital records.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a receptionist for the nursing unit; answers the telephone, takes and delivers messages, and answers inquiries for patients, families, physicians, and visitors, including answering patient call lights.
• Maintains an orderly environment in the nursing station.
• Sorts and delivers interdepartmental mail.
• Maintains unit records and admission/dismissal log books.
• Prepares and transcribes physician orders for verification by a registered nurse.
• Reviews and organizes patient charts with all forms properly identified.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, transfers, discharges and death, notifying appropriate departments and staff, and assembling chart forms.
• Completes requisition forms and enters orders into the computer for central supply items, and diagnostic or therapeutic patient services.
• Routes charts and/or lab work to other departments as required for diagnostic and therapeutic services; assembles dismissal charts and routes them to Medical Records.
• Maintains stock supplies in the unit and reports requests for par level changes and/or non-stock needs.
• Assists with maintenance of equipment, routes broken equipment to Maintenance, uses Meditech, Maintenance Log and Central Work Order to request repair; contacts Clinical Engineering when required.
• Requests diets and checks meal trays for accuracy; collects late trays from the dumbwaiter.
• Communicates effectively with team members and unit secretaries from other shifts; provides oncoming shift secretary with accurate report.
• Assures patient charges are appropriately entered; verifies and reconciles charges each shift.
• Responds to emergency situations according to defined procedures including infant security system alarms.
• Demonstrates competence to perform assigned responsibilities in a manner that meets age-specific and developmental needs of clients served by the department.
• Appropriately adapts assigned assessment, treatment and/or service methods to accommodate the unique needs of each client served.
• Demonstrates adherence to the core values of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Graduation from an approved unit clerk program or previous experience as a unit secretary is preferred.
• CPR certification is preferred.

Work Schedule

3 Days - 12 Hours

Work Type

Full Time