Unit Secretary, 2nd FL MedSurg

Hours: 28-Hours Evenings 2:45pm - 10:15pm

$18.50 - $29.42

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Essential Functions

• Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance then finds someone who can.
• Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
• Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
• Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients visitors and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort and minimize risk and injury.
• Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
• Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
• Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
• Provides clerical support to clinical staff (e.g. maintains unit files organizes patient care record prepares admission and pre-op charts etc).
• Under direction of nurse makes all appropriate arrangements for outside services transfers and ambulance services in a timely manner.
• Appropriately prioritizes tasks adjusting to changing workload as necessary (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources recognizes emergency situations etc.).
• Maintains clean and safe work environment (identifies and/or removes safety hazards).
• Performs thorough timely and accurate transcription of physicians orders (including entering into Meditech OE module where utilized).
• Performs support functions to manager/director such as payroll copying typing etc.
• Participates in the learning for colleagues and self (e.g. assist with orientation of new staff in-services educational programs etc.).
• Coordinates patient testing by calling ancillary departments upon request.
• Creates copies and distributes mail and materials necessary for projects and daily activities.
• Facilitates communication between the nursing unit and other departments so that everyone involved has current and accurate information as to patients care.
• Facilitates transfers and admissions through retrieving and copying medical records and sending and receiving faxes so that documents arrive before or at the same time as patients.
• Assists with facilitating room turnover to reduce the wait time of admissions.

Statement of Other Duties

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Functional Demands

Physical Requirements

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) and handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands).

Organizational Expectations

Behavioral Attributes

The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation concern for order flexibility initiative self-confidence customer service oriented interpersonal effectiveness teamwork analytical thinking and information seeking.

Job Requirements

Minimum Education

• High School diploma or the equivalent required

Minimum Experience

• Experience in Healthcare setting preferred

Required Skills

• Experience with medical terminology preferred.
• Computer skills preferred