Clinical Support Tech I ( HS Med Surg Nursing)

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance to physicians and other healthcare providers during routine examinations and procedures.
• Assists in the procurement of equipment and supplies.
• Critically reviews patient care documentation, noting any significant changes in the patient’s condition and reporting immediately to a registered nurse or physician.
• Performs a variety of clerical tasks, including organizing and prioritizing workload, greeting and directing visitors, researching information, transcribing physician orders, answering the telephone/patient call lights, and maintaining medical records.
• Conducts routine quality assurance audits, safety checks, and inventory of supplies.
• Provides administrative and clerical support, including PI audits and data entry.
• Offers clinical support assistance, such as cleaning the work area, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking supply inventory, re-stocking supplies, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, and assisting in the orientation of new employees and students.
• Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in the plan of care, including bathing, dressing, feeding, assisting with ambulation, measuring and recording vital signs, and patient height and weight.
• Measures and records vital signs, and patient height and weight.
• Makes specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, and/or postural drainage.
• Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and documents patient understanding of instructions.
• Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or healthcare providers.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED).
• Licensed as a Nursing Assistant I by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English language.
• Ability to develop computer skills if not competent.