Unit Secretary - Adult Acute Care - Trauma/Surgery - 3 North (7 On / 7 Off)

Job Summary

To perform a variety of clerical tasks involved in preparing, maintaining, and processing patient, ward, and hospital data and records.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Records, verifies, and enters patients, and hospital information reflecting admissions, transfers, discharges, patient census, and other applicable data.
• Assembles temporary chart.
• Maintains accurate unit census in the bed tracking system.
• Answers patient signals, assesses patient's needs, and communicates request to pertinent individuals as necessary.
• Schedules appointments and arranges transportation for patients.
• Answers telephones, takes and delivers messages, and provides information to patients and family members.

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold.
• Occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Requires frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations.
• Occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking.

Work Shift

• Full time

Pay

• Hourly

FTE %

• 100

Time Type

• Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt

• No