Unit Secretary 6 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, enters all appropriate nursing orders into PowerChart and maintains paper charts.
• Maintains supplies, prepares reports, and maintains unit records under the direction of the charge nurse or department manager.
• Assists and prioritizes non-clinical aspects of admission, discharge, and transfer of patients, including coordinating hospital-to-hospital transfers.
• Assesses patients, signs and completes forms, and communicates patient needs to appropriate caregivers.
• Answers patient call lights promptly and courteously, referring visitors and ancillary staff to the appropriate departments.
• Performs errands such as obtaining and returning supplies from Central Supply, Pharmacy, Lab, and Dietary.
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of patients currently on the unit and demonstrates polite and courteous phone etiquette.
• Restocks supplies in the department as needed.
• Demonstrates effective organizational skills and the ability to multitask.

Requirements

Minimum of High School or GED required. Intermediate computer knowledge: Uses Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Windows.