Health Unit Coordinator
Patient Care Support
Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients, answers patient call lights, schedules tests and treatments, provides access control to visitor entrance to secure units, performs telemetry duties, and may deliver medications from the delivery system to the RN.
Clerical Support
- Answers unit telephones and disseminates information appropriately
- Processes, organizes, files, and maintains patient and unit records
- Transcribes physician orders
- Affords as unit receptionist
- May organize, stock, and maintain supplies on the unit
Collaboration and Customer Service
Performs functions delegated by the nursing manager and charge nurse, demonstrates effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, and organization, and provides excellent customer service when responding to patient/family requests, physicians, nursing, and other ancillary services.
Skills
- Nursing
- Patient Care
- Office Administration
- Medical Records Management
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- Teamwork
- Computer Information
- Organizing
- Word Processing
- Computer Literacy
Minimum Qualifications
- Demonstrated clerical or customer service experience
- Previous experience as a secretary in a hospital setting
- Previous experience using electronic medical records (EMR)
- Experience using word processing software
- Basic understanding of medical terminology
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy
- This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients
- Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment
- Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment
- This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items
- Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
- May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time
Location
Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital
Work City: Billings
Work State: Montana
Scheduled Weekly Hours
36
Pay
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$18.40 - $23.92
Benefits
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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