Unit Secretary - PACU - FT - Days - Augusta, GA

Core Responsibilities And Essential Functions

• Excellence in Customer Service by partnering with health care team, patient and family
• Protects rights and dignity of patient at all times. Builds relationships with the family. Maintains confidentiality.
• Participates in hourly patient rounding.
• Maintains paper medical record and scanning documents into electronic medical record as necessary.
• Solves patient concerns. Proactively offers assistance and comfort measures to patients and families.
• Presents self in positive and professional manner and show sensitivity to concerns and needs of others.

Work Shift Day (United States of America) Job Summary

Average work schedule is 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Some evening and weekend work may be required as needed.

Unit Secretary Functions

• Facilitates the provision of safe, age appropriate and culturally aware patient care by performing clerical and receptionist functions including computer order entry, retrieval of data, maintaining unit supplies, transporting supplies/equipment/patient medications, preparing and maintaining patient charts, providing customer service and acting as the central communication source on the nursing unit.

Team Work

• Supports initiatives of the Health care team.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds as scribe and facilitates outcome activities as needed.
• Performs charge reconciliation.
• Notifies nurse when physician has arrived on unit.
• Performs audits as requested.
• Performs staffing reconciliation in Smart Square.
• Completes and submits supply requisitions; accepts and stocks delivery.
• Places orders for durable medical equipment.
• Participates in unit performance improvement initiatives.
• Supports professional nursing practice through shared governance, evidenced-based practice and ethical accountability.

Communication

• Uses effective written and oral communication skills with patients, staff, physicians, family and visitors.
• Uses safety communication techniques.
• Plays physician and ancillary consults.
• Maintains computer and other related IT equipment.
• Reports when devices are not working properly.
• Acts as liaison between patients and diagnostic areas to determine anticipated times for tests/procedures; communicates with patient and updates white boards with information.
• Knowledgeable, maintains, and acts as unit expert regarding patient care documentation tools in the event of downtime.
• Unit super user for electronic documentation.
• Facilitates data recover during downtime.
• Communicates patient care concerns/problems/emergencies to the RN.
• Uses positive and respectful communication with all members of healthcare team, patients and families.

Safety and Infection Control

• Provides a safe environment for the unit operations.
• Consistent use of appropriate hand hygiene.
• Keeps patient rooms and unit areas clean and free of clutter.
• Follows appropriate PPE/Infection control policies.
• Reinforces the importance of universal precautions with patient and patients family.
• Operates Xenex machines after patient discharge.
• Performs environment of care rounds.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Minimum Education

High School Diploma

Required Minimum License(s) And Certification(s)

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

Required Minimum Experience

Less than 1 year clinical experience in acute care setting

Preferred Required Minimum Skills

• Ability to read, write and speak the English language.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate with other health care providers in the provision of patient care.
• Ability to multi-task essential.
• Ability to function in stressful and emergency situations essential.
• Strong detail orientation required.
• Computer skills required; Personal time management skills are required.
• Basic Computer Skills Required.
• Ability to enter information into an electronic medical record.
• Basic medical terminology required.