Unit Secretary Job at King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland

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Responsibilities

• The Unit Secretary provides clerical and other support services to maximize the ability of nursing personnel to provide patient care.
• Provides telephone coverage for the nursing station, routing incoming and outgoing calls, taking messages, and covering the desk for stat procedures.
• Serves as a resource person for inquiries from other departments.
• Responds to public inquiries by directing them to the appropriate person.
• Greets all patients, visitors, employees and physicians upon arrival to the unit.
• Monitors patient call lights and informs nurses of patient needs in a timely manner.
• Prepares and compiles patient’s charts and other records, maintains the patient’s medical record with required forms, and prepares the admission chart.
• Accurate registration of supplies and equipment and enters correct discharge information into the computer system.
• Retrieves old medical records, prints admission package, and prepares transfer of patients by obtaining old charts from medical records, transfer form with labels.
• Maintains up-to-date assignment board, bulletin board, and other communication sources.
• Initials and files all diagnostic reports in appropriate location in chart after review by the charge nurse.
• Establishes, organizes and maintains functional work environment on the units and consistently maintains unit supplies.
• Assists with on-the-job training and orientation of new unit secretaries.
• Accepts reassignments to other units and/or alternate shifts.

Education & Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Must type 35 correct words per minute.
• Related experience and/or training is preferred.

Working Environment

• Works indoors in an office/clinic setting.
• The noise level is usually moderate.
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation.

Physical Demands

• Constantly required to maintain a stationary position behind a computer.
• Frequently required to move about inside the department.
• Constantly required to communicate telephonically and face to face with colleagues and customers.
• Constantly required to operate a computer and telephone.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds; frequently required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.