What are the responsibilities and job description for the Unit Assistant - 8 E General Surgery position at McLaren Health Care?
Department: 8 E General Surgery
Daily Work Times: 7a-7p
Shift: Days
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 69
Benefits:
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.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Daily Work Times: 7a-7p
Shift: Days
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 69
Benefits:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
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.
Essential Functions and 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.
- 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:
- acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or
- long term care nursing assistant course or
- completion of an emergency medical technician program or
- completion of medical assistant program or
- 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.
- BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).
- Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.
- Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.
- Schedule: Part-time
- Additional Locations: Michigan, Lansing
- Requisition ID: 26002371
- Daily Work Times: 7a-7p
- Hours Per Pay Period: 69
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes