What are the responsibilities and job description for the Unit Secretary II position at Prisma Health?
Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
Job Summary
Performs clerical duties including maintaining patient records, scheduling patients for tests/procedures, transcribing physician orders, ordering supplies, and acting as a liaison between physicians, nursing, hospital staff, families, guests and patients. Recognizes and reports arrhythmia and computer data to the Registered Nurse.
Essential Functions
Night (United States of America)
Location
Oconee Medical Campus
Facility
1064 Oconee Memorial Hospital
Department
10646403 ICU Medical
Share your talent with us! Our vision is simple: to transform healthcare for the benefits of the communities we serve. The transformation of healthcare requires talented individuals in every role here at Prisma Health.
Job Summary
Performs clerical duties including maintaining patient records, scheduling patients for tests/procedures, transcribing physician orders, ordering supplies, and acting as a liaison between physicians, nursing, hospital staff, families, guests and patients. Recognizes and reports arrhythmia and computer data to the Registered Nurse.
Essential Functions
- All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
- Maintains patient records; ensures that charts are current, complete and thinned as needed according to policies and procedures.
- Schedules diagnostic procedures, exams and special procedures in a timely manner.
- Transcribes physician orders.
- Orders, stores and maintains supplies.
- Acts as a liaison between physicians, nursing, hospital staff, families, guests and patients.
- Utilizes communication equipment and relays information to appropriate personnel.
- Informs physician and ancillary departments of patient admission, discharge, transfer or death in a timely manner.
- Recognizes and reports arrhythmia and computer data according to policies and procedures.
- Maintains proper documentation of patient records according to policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director or executive.
- Education - For US portion of this job requires unit secretary or on-the-job training or six (6) months of clerical or healthcare related experience or completion of a nursing fundamentals class. HS Diploma or GED preferred.
- Experience - No experience required other than that which is listed above.
- The US training/experience requirement will be waived if the applicant has successfully passed the Prisma Health arrhythmia exam.
- After hire, requires attendance of formal arrhythmia training class and successful completion of the Prisma Health Arrhythmia exam with a minimum passing score within 2 attempts.
- Successful completion of the arrhythmia exam must be completed within 30 days of hire.
- Arrhythmia competencies must be maintained on an annual basis if selected into a monitor tech role.
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Night (United States of America)
Location
Oconee Medical Campus
Facility
1064 Oconee Memorial Hospital
Department
10646403 ICU Medical
Share your talent with us! Our vision is simple: to transform healthcare for the benefits of the communities we serve. The transformation of healthcare requires talented individuals in every role here at Prisma Health.