Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech - Operating Room
About the role
Location: 2400 Unser Blvd SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124. Full-time (FTE 1.0), non-exempt, day shift.
Make a difference! Presbyterian Rust Medical Center's Operating Room is hiring a Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech to perform secretarial/clerical duties while acting as a communication center for the nursing unit. Performs advanced patient care procedures (such as initiation of intravenous therapy, splinting/casting, suturing, and reinforcement of patient education and care instructions as directed by the registered nurse or licensed provider, and/or perform advanced support-procedures for the operation of the Emergency Department (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only). Operates patient monitoring systems. Supervised by: Charge Nurse and/or Nurse Manager/Asst. Nurse Manager.
Responsibilities
- Courteously greets and directs customers.
- Promotes/facilitates accurate and timely unit communication
- Answers telephones and efficiently processes information.
- Redirects phone calls to the appropriate parties
- Monitors patients and collects information for documentation in the patient record.
- Transports patients and documents action on patient record.
- Monitors patients and collects information for documentation in patient records.
- Collects and records vital signs in patient record
- Inserts (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only), and remove non-medicated, peripheral intravenous therapy lines under the direction of a licensed Provider.
- Performs phlebotomy after appropriate training
- Applies fiberglass splints, casts and traction devices.
- Performs bedside testing such as oximetry, ECG, Glucometry, urinalysis and other tests.
- Scrubs and sutures wounds under the direction of a licensed Provider (CDS Emergency Departments and PresNows only).
- Performs wound care and dressing changes.
- Prepare patients for surgery.
- Removes gastric and urethral tubes (under direct nursing supervision, when applicable and only after adequate training).
- Performs enemas and pericare.
- Performs other skills under the direction of a Nurse or Provider and after competency validation
- Coordinates and maintains specific equipment and/or supply systems.
- Coordinates and maintains specific sterile processing systems
- Operates patient monitoring systems specific to unit needs
- Uses the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at the skill level commensurate with the responsibilities included in this description, as well as that of a Unit Secretary, when required
- Ensures cleanliness of nutrition areas and general unit.
- Cleans and stores equipment.
- Empties trash, linen bags and sharps containers