Nursing Unit Administrative Coordinator

Crisp Regional Health Services; Cordele (GA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Crisp Regional Health Services in Cordele, GA seeks a Unit Secretary to provide administrative and secretarial support to the Nursing department. You will screen guests, transcribe orders, maintain files, and relay messages to nursing staff in a fast-paced hospital setting.

The role supports patient care operations, processes physician orders, maintains inventory, and assists with basic patient care tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Education: Requires a high school diploma or a GED state certification with an emphasis in Office Occupations and Administrative Skills.
• Experience: Requires up to three months of work-related experience or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Licensure, Registrations & Certifications: Requires and maintains a certification in Basic Life Saving (BLS). (If BLS certification is not current upon hire, it must be obtained within three (3) months of hire.)
• A Certified Nursing Assistant certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Screens guests and telephone calls and notifies the nursing staff, or records and relays messages.
• Establishes, maintains, and revises record keeping and filing system. Classifies, sorts and files correspondence, articles, records, and other documents.
• Gathers data unit records and prepares, completes, and/or processes reports, records, billings, etc. which require an understanding of both the Nursing department and CRHS policies and procedures.
• Opens, sorts, and distributes mail.
• Requisitions office supplies and distributes supplies when received.
• Transcribes physicians’ orders and routes them to appropriate departments.
• Completes manual requisitions as necessary.
• Enters, quires and retrieves data related to physician orders, unit inventory stock levels and drug discontinues and holds.
• Generates the surgery, radiology, and treatment sheets for each nursing unit.
• Tracks status of test results and files.
• Enters messages for physicians and all consultation requests into the system.
• Discharges patients from nursing units, places physician's patient summary sheets on patient charts daily
• Orders patient care and stock supplies for the patient care unit and maintains adequate unit supplies.
• Conducts a clerical review of patients’ medical records from admission through discharge, and for forwarding transcription and reports to HIM for retention.
• Prepares reports and compiles statistics as required.
• Assists the nursing staff in providing basic care to patients as needed.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Crisp Regional Health Services in Cordele, GA seeks a Unit Secretary to provide administrative and secretarial support to the Nursing department. You will screen guests, transcribe orders, maintain files, and relay messages to nursing staff in a fast-paced hospital setting.

The role supports patient care operations, processes physician orders, maintains inventory, and assists with basic patient care tasks as needed.