Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech - Cardiac Progressive Care

About the Role

Presbyterian Hospital's Cardiac Progressive Care Unit is hiring a Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech to perform secretarial/clerical duties while acting as a communication center for the nursing unit. This role also involves performing specific patient care procedures under the direction of a licensed Nurse and/or support-procedures for the operation of a Nursing or Clinical Department. The position operates patient monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Courteously greets and directs customers.
• Promotes/facilitates accurate and timely unit communication.
• Keeps locator boards current.
• Answers telephones and efficiently processes information, including accurately transcribing physicians' orders.
• Communicates and processes necessary paperwork/information for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Responsible for ensuring the Medical Record is complete and in order at discharge.
• Maintains correct census and bed status report.
• Assembles patients' charts and organizes them daily by filing pertinent reports and adding blank forms as needed.
• Maintains and accounts for office supplies for the unit.
• Assists in maintaining nursing unit cleanliness and orderliness.
• Technician Duties: Monitors, collects, and records information in the patient record.
• Collects and records vital signs, weights, and other patient data.
• Transports patients and documents action in the patient record.
• Participates in the nutritional well-being of patients through tray delivery, assistance with patient set-up, and feeding.
• Accurately records input and output.
• Assists with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, positioning, and ambulation.
• Communicates information pertinent to the end of shift summation before leaving the unit.
• Rounds on patients and families frequently to assess and address personal needs, concerns, or comfort-related issues.
• Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes. Performs enemas and disimpactions. Removes peripheral, intravenous therapy lines. Performs phlebotomy on certain units after specific training.
• Operates patient monitoring systems specific to unit needs (e.g., cardiac and fetal heart monitoring). Performs bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometry, urinalysis, and other tests.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes. Removes staples and sutures. Assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures. Assists with application and removal of restraints under the direction of an RN.
• Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered without altering settings or determining rates. Assists patients with portable or wall oxygen and assures proper storage of E cylinders.
• Documents all care provided in the appropriate place in the patient record. Assembles patient charts. Posts laboratory and other results in the patient chart. Uses the computerized documentation system at the skill level commensurate with the responsibilities included in this description.
• Delivers specimens to Laboratory, Microbiology, and Pathology. Transports x-rays, blood products, and equipment.
• Ensures cleanliness of nutrition areas and the general unit. Cleans and stores equipment. Empties trash, linen bags, and sharps containers. Stocks medical supplies, linens, and paper goods. Inventories equipment as required. Processes broken equipment as directed. Maintains equipment logs as required.
• Performs other functions as required.

Qualifications

• High School/GED.
• Clinical experience OR completion of Unit Secretary course OR completion of self-study module preferred.
• Must successfully complete competency verification before starting on the assigned unit.
• BLS required at the time of hire.

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities.
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern).
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications, and various lead roles (for eligible positions).
• Malpractice liability insurance.
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department.
• EPIC electronic charting system.
• Access to a fun, engaging, and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges, and more.

Location: 1100 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106-4930
Type of Opportunity: Full-time
FTE: 0.90
Work Shift: 12 Hour Nights (United States of America)

Presbyterian Healthcare Services is a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan, and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees, including more than 1,600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses. Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care), and Commercial health plans. AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke-free campuses.

Compensation Pay Range: $16.37 - $24.89