Compassionate Patient Care & Unit Coordinator

uoflhealth; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

UofL Health in Louisville, KY is hiring a Patient Care Assistant/Unit Coordinator to support on the Mary and Elizabeth - UMC unit. This role performs clerical duties and clinical patient care under licensed nursing personnel, using professional communication with staff, patients, families, and visitors.

Responsibilities include transcribing orders, maintaining medical records, verifying intake and vital signs, assisting with mobility and hygiene, and ensuring HIPAA compliance and safety on the

Qualifications

• Transcribes and computes physician orders accurately.
• Assembles patient medical records and maintains proper order of charts.
• Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged/ transferred charts, checking for completeness.
• Handles desk communications and routes messages promptly to the appropriate person.

Responsibilities

• Measures and documents intake and output, heights and weights, and vital signs.
• Applies, monitors, and documents restraint usage.
• Collects urine, stool, and sputum specimens.
• Performs and documents point-of-care testing.
• Performs and documents patient mobility and exercise, and comfort, rest, and sleep care needs.
• Performs and documents patient hygiene, grooming, and dressing, skin and nail care, dietary and toileting/elimination needs.

Skills

Documentation

Communication

Vital signs

Specimen collection

Point-of-care testing

Job description

UofL Health in Louisville, KY is hiring a Patient Care Assistant/Unit Coordinator to support on the Mary and Elizabeth - UMC unit. This role performs clerical duties and clinical patient care under licensed nursing personnel, using professional communication with staff, patients, families, and visitors.

Responsibilities include transcribing orders, maintaining medical records, verifying intake and vital signs, assisting with mobility and hygiene, and ensuring HIPAA compliance and safety on the