What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ward Clerk position at CASS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER?
CASS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Job/Position Description
Department Name: Med Surg
Title: Ward Clerk
EEOC Classification: Non-Exempt
Dimension and Description
Primary Purpose: To promote teamwork in performing clerical and receptionist duties at the nurses’ station while providing a safe environment. Performs other duties as assigned.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: No formal supervisory responsibility. The policies associated with the job’s purpose and essential responsibilities are set by others.
Routine Decision Making: Determines who to forward phone calls to.
Formal Supervisory Responsibility: No formal supervisory responsibility.
Required Knowledge: Medical terminology; knowledge of ancillary departmental procedures and staffing pattern.
Required Skills and Ability: Good computer skills; good communication skills; ability to operate general office equipment; customer service skills and good organizational skills.
Unusual Working Conditions: Risk of blood, body fluid contamination. Potential exposure to hazardous drugs and chemicals.
Education and Certification: High school education required. BLS preferred.
Age Specific Competencies: May provide care for infant (birth-2 yrs.), pediatric/child patients between (2 yrs-12 yrs.); adolescent patients between 12 to 18 years of age; adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.
Qualifications:Essential Responsibilities and Tasks
A. Maintains safe and comfortable unit. (90% of time)
1. Verifies correct diet with dietary staff prior to passing tray to patient.
2. Answers phone in a polite and friendly manner.
3. Take messages for patient, family, staff, and providers and delivers them within fifteen (15) minutes.
4. Cleanse nurse’s station with disinfectant daily prior to shift end.
5. Removes malfunctioning equipment from the direct patient care area immediately upon discovering a problem.
6. Completes a requisition for repair and sends electronic work request before the end of the shift, pass on any issues to the next shift for follow up and provides a copy to the director before the end of shift.
7. Ensures that callers requesting the nurse for patient information has the HIPAA passcode.
8. Keeps chart and patient identification tags out of public view, continually.
9. Provides patient name band, fall risk, allergy band, etc. to nurse immediately upon request and as needed.
10. Utilizes correct patient identification at all times.
11. Scan all medical documents into Meditech system in a timely manner.
12. Utilizing the ‘AIDET’ (Acknowledge, Introduction, Duration, Explain, Thank) model, conducts an appropriate introduction, reviews the plan of care, mutually sets attainable patient goals.
13. Assists in ensuring supplies are stocked and orders as appropriate.
C. Develops and promotes performance improvement initiatives. (10% of time)
1. Plans, develops and evaluates self-objectives, annually.
2. Participates in planning ways to solve problems and make improvements in the Medical Surgical unit, quarterly, and as needed.
3. Participates in implementing planned changes and activities to improve the Medical Surgical unit quarterly, and as needed.
4. Evaluates planned changes and activities to improve the Medical Surgical unit, quarterly, and as needed.
5. Attends unit staff meetings 5= 100%, 4= 81% - 99%, 3= 75% - 80%, 2= 50% - 74%, 1= <49% annually.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
TYPE OF WORK (Check One)
Sedentary Work: Lifting 10lbs maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers and small tools. Jobs are sedentary; if walking and standing are required only occasionally.
x Light Work: Lifting 20lbs maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10lbs. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job is in this category when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree or
Medium Work: Lifting 100lbs maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25lbs.
Heavy Work: Lifting 100lbs maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 50lbs.
Very Heavy Lifting: Lifting objects in excess of 100lbs with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing 50lbs or more.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS (Check those which apply)
x Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling).
x Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in hands or arms or on the shoulders.
x Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (including slapping, striking, kicking, and treadle actions).
x Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking).
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, ropes, and the like, using the feet and the legs and/or hands and arms.
Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on a narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces; or maintaining body equilibrium when performing gymnastic feats.
x Hearing: Ability to determine audible communication.
x Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist.
x Kneeling: Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees.
x Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine.
Crawling: Moving about on the hands and knees or hands and feet.
x Reaching: Extending the hands and arms in any direction.
x Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with the hand or hands (fingering not involved).
x Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (rather than with the whole hand or arms as in handling).
x Repetitive Motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
x Feeling: Perceiving such attributes of objects and materials as size, shape, temperature, or texture by means of receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips.
x Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
x Seeing: Obtaining impressions through the eyes of the shape, size, distance, motion, color or other characteristics of objects.
Including Major Visual Functions
x Acuity, far - clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.
x Acuity, near - clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
x Depth perception - ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.
x Field of vision - area seen up and down or to the right or left while eyes are fixed.
x Accommodations - adjustment of the lens of the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.
x Color vision - the ability to identify and distinguish colors.
WORKING CONDITIONS (Check those which apply)
x Inside: Worker spends approximately 75% or more of time inside.
Outside: Worker spends approximately 75% or more time outside.
In/Outside: Activities occur inside or outside in approximately equal amounts.
Extremes of Cold: Temperature sufficiently low to cause marked bodily discomfort unless worker is provided with exceptional protection.
Extremes of Heat: Temperature sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort unless worker is provided with exceptional protection.
Temperature Changes: Variations in temperature which are sufficiently marked and abrupt to cause noticeable bodily reactions.
x Wet: Contact with water or other liquids.
Humid: Atmospheric condition with moisture content sufficiently high to cause marked bodily discomfort.
Noise and Vibration: Sufficient noise, either constant or intermittent to cause marked distraction or possible injury to the sense of hearing and /or sufficient vibration (production of an oscillating movement or strain on the body or its extremities from repeated motion or shock) to cause bodily harm if endured day after day.
x Hazards: Situations in which the individual is exposed to the definite risk of the bodily injury.
Fumes: Smoky or vaporous exhalations, usually odorous, thrown off as the result of combustion or chemical reaction.
Odor: Noxious smells, either toxic dust, fumes, gases, vapors, mists or liquids which cause general or localized disabling conditions as a result of inhalation or action to the skin.
Toxic Conditions: Exposure to toxic dust, fumes, gases, vapors. Mists or liquids which cause general or localized disabling conditions as a result of inhalations or action to the skin.
x Infectious Disease: Risk of exposure to biohazard us materials, blood, body fluid contamination.
Dust: Air filled with small particles of any kind, such as textiles dust, flour, wool, leather, feathers, etc., and inorganic dust including silica and asbestos, which make the workplace unpleasant or are the source of occupational disease.
Poor Ventilation: Insufficient movement of air causing a feeling of suffocation; or exposure to drafts.
Identify and describe any additional physical demands or unusual working conditions that were not previously covered.