• Job Description

  Req#: R-45541

  Position Title

  BH 42 Unit Secretary - Weekend

  Bell Hospital

  Position Summary / Career Interest:

  The Unit Secretary acts as a liaison, greets visitors, patients, health care team members in a courteous, customer focused manner. Ensures patient charts are organized, accurate and complete per hospital chart order. Initiates breakdown of chart and completes discharge checklist. Monitors electronic record for: new orders, consults for completion, accurate treatment teams, patient status, new results, and advance directives. Completes order entry for equipment, advance diet, and transport orders. Orders patient supplies and unit equipment as needed. Monitors and updates inventory and downtime bin. Enters dietary intake. Assists with safety and environmental rounds, monitors cleanliness and assists with infection prevention efforts.

  Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

  • Answers telephone and triages calls to unit, calls for consults, support, and ancillary departments as needed.
  • Assists in monitoring patient disposition at all times as they leave or return to unit,using log.
  • Assists with non-patient care needs as needed or requested by unit staff (turning offlights, delivering mail, delivering flowers, etc.).
  • Completes needed filing. - Ensures call light system is updated with patient assignments each shift
  • Informs Admitting of discharges immediately upon patient leaving unit if needed.
  • May be required to provide constant observation.
  • Routinely maintains work area in a neat and orderly fashion.
  • Schedules follow-up appointments for patients.
  • Transports items to ancillary departments as needed and pick up any items if required.
  • Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
  • These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

  
  Required Education and Experience

  • High School Graduate

  
  Required Licensure and Certification

  • Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA) Heartsaver CPR/AED or BLS

  
  Knowledge Requirements

  • Completion of Medical Terminology class preferred

  Time Type:

  Part time

  Job Requisition ID:

  R-45541

  We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.

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• About the company

  The University of Kansas Health System, commonly known as KU Med and formerly known as The University of Kansas Hospital, is a nonprofit, academic medical center located in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, with branch hospitals and education centers...

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