Roxborough Memorial Hospital · 9 hours ago
Unit Secretary - Telemetry
Roxborough Memorial Hospital is a community hospital dedicated to quality, compassion, and community service. The Unit Secretary plays a crucial role in supporting the ICU by facilitating communication, transcribing orders, and assisting nursing staff with indirect patient care.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
The Unit Secretary is directly accountable to the Director of ICU and indirectly to the Charge Nurse and/or House Supervisor
The Unit Secretary is an unlicensed person who performs indirect patient care in the department setting
Facilitates the communication needs of the department
Transcribes physician orders from records (in the absence of CPOE and EMR clinical documentation system) with notation and signature by nursing staff
Prepares and complies records on the ICU
Orders supplies for the unit, prepares and completes each patient's chart for necessary forms needed on a daily basis
Able to assist nursing staff for duties involving indirect patient care
Qualification
Required
High School Diploma or Equivalent or relevant experience required for all new hires, effective April 2014
Current BLS (AHA) certificate within 6 months of hire and maintain current
Preferred
Basic dysrhythmia training on hire preferred
Medical terminology preferred
Experience using computers for word processing, database management preferred