Unit Secretary 4 NN

About the role

The Unit Secretary position at NCH plays a crucial role in ensuring high-quality patient care. This role facilitates and coordinates physician orders, maintains supplies, and assists with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and coordinates physician orders, entering all appropriate nursing orders into PowerChart and maintaining paper charts.
• Maintains supplies, prepares reports, and keeps unit records under the direction of the charge nurse or department manager.
• Affords assistance and prioritization to non-clinical aspects of patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, including coordinating hospital-to-hospital transfers via various means.
• Assesses and signs all forms, ensuring they are complete and properly labeled.
• Answers patient call lights promptly and courteously, notifying the appropriate caregivers of patient needs.
• Prioritizes patient requests and communicates them effectively to the right resources.
• Welcomes and directs visitors and ancillary staff, referring them to other departments or units within the NCH Healthcare system as necessary.
• Performs errands as needed, such as obtaining and returning supplies from Central Supply, Pharmacy, Lab, and Dietary.
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of patients currently on the unit.
• Displays polite and courteous phone etiquette, capable of clear communication with others.
• Organizes tasks effectively and manages multiple responsibilities simultaneously.

Requirements

Minimum requirements include a High School diploma or equivalent, along with intermediate computer skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Windows.