Unit Secretary

Purpose of Your Job Position

The primary purpose of your job position is to prepare and compile records on nursing unit.

Job Functions

• General Responsibilities

• Residents Rights

• Safety and Sanitation

• Staff Development

• Unit Secretary Responsibilities

• Records information in clinical record as outlined by Solaris HealthCare standards

• Copies information, such as resident's temperature, pulse rate, and blood pressure from nurses' records onto resident's medical records.

• Records diet instructions.

• Keeps file of medical records on residents in unit.

• Prepares notice of resident's discharge to inform business office.

• Requisitions supplies designated by nursing staff.

• Answers telephone and relays messages to residents and nursing staff.

• Directs visitors to residents' rooms.

• Checks resident ID system, ID bands and/or resident pictures and obtains replacements as necessary

• Prepares name tags for doors and places on door upon admission and as needed

• Thins clinical records at least monthly

• Audits new admission charts, using the Quality Improvement audit tools

• Faxes orders to physicians, as requested

• Assembles and maintains complete admission and discharge/transfer packets for assigned units

• Schedules transportation to physician appointments or other appointments, as required. Arrange escort, as required

• Administrative Responsibilities

• Special Activities/Attributes

Education

High School graduate or equivalent required. Must have legible penmanship, knowledge of medical symbols, abbreviations, and terminology.

Experience

1-3 months previous working experience preferred.