Health Unit Coordinator

15800 Brighton Community Hospital Association dba Platte Valley Hospital; Brighton (CO); On-site; USD 34,385,000 - 45,526,000; Full time

Job summary

15800 Brighton Community Hospital Association dba Platte Valley Hospital is seeking a Health Unit Coordinator to support unit organization and patient care. The role involves coordinating patient, nursing, physician, and office clerical activities with rotating shifts.

Essential duties include patient admission/discharge, unit record maintenance, order transcription, and delivering strong customer service to patients, families, and staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications include demonstrated clerical or customer service experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients and telemetry duties.
• Transcribe physician orders and manage unit records and receptionist tasks.
• Support nursing leadership with teamwork, prioritization, and responsive patient service.

Skills

Nursing Support

Office Administration

Medical Records Management

Electronic Medical Records

Teamwork

Computer Literacy

Job description

Job Description

Under the direction of nursing leadership, the Health Unit Coordinator facilitates unit organization and patient care by assisting in the coordination of patient, nursing, physician, and other healthcare provider office and clerical activities. This position will be working rotating shifts.

Essential Functions

• Patient Care Support: Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients, answers patient call lights, schedules tests and treatments, provides access control to visitor entrance to secure units, performs telemetry duties, and may deliver medications from the delivery system to the RN.
• Clerical Support: Answers unit telephones and disseminates information appropriately, processes, organizes, files, and maintains patient and unit records, transcribes physician orders, acts as unit receptionist, and may organize, stock, and maintain supplies on the unit.
• Collaboration and Customer Service: Performs functions delegated by the nursing manager and charge nurse, demonstrates effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, and organization, and provides excellent customer service when responding to patient/family requests, physicians, nursing, and other ancillary services.

Skills

• Skills Nursing Patient Care Office Administration Medical Records Management Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Teamwork Computer Information Organizing Word Processing Computer Literacy

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated clerical or customer service experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as a secretary in a hospital setting
• Previous experience using electronic medical records (EMR) Experience using word processing software Basic understanding of medical terminology

Physical Requirements

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.) May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time. For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location and Hours

Location: Platte Valley Hospital Work City: Brighton Work State: Colorado Scheduled Weekly Hours: 24 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $20.00 - $26.48

Benefits

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