Unit Secretary/Nursing Tech - Progressive Care Unit 3

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 Medical Record being 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.
• Aids in maintaining nursing units cleanliness and orderliness.
• 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 patient record.
• Assists 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 (shaving, mouth care, foot care, pericare and bathing), 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. Reports information to responsible nurse for resolution when necessary.
• 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 (such as, cardiac and fetal heart monitoring).
• Performs bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometery, urinalysis and other tests.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes. Removes staples and sutures. Assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures.
• Affixes 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 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.
• Insures cleanliness of nutrition areas and 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 assigned unit.
• BLS required at time of hire.