Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.

• Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data. Reports changes in patient/resident condition.

• Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

• Transcribes physician orders and notifies appropriate parties of orders and consultations.

• Schedules procedures with other departments.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.

• Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.

• Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:

o acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or

o long term care nursing assistant course or

o completion of an emergency medical technician program or

o completion of medical assistant program or

o completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.

• Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).

Preferred:

• Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.

• Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

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Unit Assistant - 8E General Surgery