OSU Unit Clerk - PT

About the role

The OSU Unit Clerk - PT position at Bronson Methodist Hospital is available for external applicants only. This role requires employees to provide direct patient care and must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and compiles records on the nursing unit
• Coordination of unit communication systems (phones, nurse call system, hospital information systems)
• Relaying information
• Maintaining optimal public relations
• Aiding in maintaining supplies, equipment, and overall unit environment
• Other duties as assigned by the Unit Leadership

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required for those hired on or after 6/1/2017
• One to three months related experience and/or training preferred
• Previous healthcare experience preferred
• Ability to successfully complete the organization's competency requirements for English, writing, spelling, and reading comprehension
• Ability to successfully complete the hospital’s orientation, core orientation, and unit-specific orientation
• Working knowledge of medical terminology
• Ability to input and retrieve data from the organization's computerized systems
• The organizational skills to maintain records and orderly filing systems and to manage multiple processes simultaneously
• Effective communication skills with patients, visitors, and all members of the care delivery team

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate effectively with patients, visitors, and all members of the care delivery team
• Work which produces very high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand/eye coordination for sustained periods of time
• Regular lifting of light-weight objects (i.e., 20 pounds or less)
• Assisting with heavier tasks such as assisting in lifting and moving patients
• Minor straining or fatiguing positions must be assumed, and some fatiguing physical motions are required
• Coordinates the flow of information throughout the unit/department for all staff
• Answers telephone and nurse call system and provides information or relays messages to patients, visitors and medical staff
• Distributes mail, newspapers, and flowers to patients
• Compiles census of patients, maintains records and distributes information in accordance with unit/department procedures
• Coordinates with the charge nurse to insure smooth, efficient and timely patient flow into, through and out of the department
• Responsible for performing clerical duties and processing equipment and staff requests relative to department needs
• Records name of patient, address, and name of attending Physician to prepare medical records on new patients
• Keeps file of medical records on patients in unit
• Gathers/inputs/retrieves information into various computerized systems
• Transports patients and guests to locations within facility, under direction or as needed
• Stocking to facilitate patient care in unit assigned to
• Takes admission paperwork to room, facilitates and completes Medicare/important message, and other assigned paperwork as directed by RN
• Manage incoming Tubes from tube station and deliver meds or other items to the RN
• Work with transport to monitor elevator bays for beds/carts
• Assists in monitoring Environment of Care
• Other duties as assigned (passing water, getting towel) attending to patient and family needs
• Maintains unsupervised access to the unit medication room(s) for stocking and/or retrieving supplies
• Hold and cuddle stable newborn infants under the direction and supervision of the RN (OB Mother Baby/Antepartum only)
• Manage incoming tubes from tube station and deliver meds or other items to the RN/medication cart (BMH ONLY)
• Function as a Patient Safety Assistant for suicide precautions only, which includes, Safe patient handling required
• Observation and prevention of unsafe patient behavior/activity
• Communicating with the responsible R.N. about patient status and pertinent input to facilitate care planning
• Accompanies patients for diagnostic tests occasionally
• Maintains a clean and orderly environment
• Uses correct body positioning, proper body mechanics to avoid injury, utilizes safe work practices (e.g. pushing vs. pulling, patient transfer/lifting devices, etc.) and uses personal protective equipment when necessary

Skills

• Medical terminology
• Computerized systems
• Communication skills
• Physical stamina and coordination
• Safe patient handling

Benefits

Details not specified in the provided job posting.

Pay

Details not specified in the provided job posting.

Schedule

Third shift, part-time, 24 hours per week.