Unit Assistant - 7E Ortho

Mclaren-Health-Care; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan seeks a nursing support associate to assist nursing staff and deliver patient care under supervision. The role includes routine bedside tasks and basic clerical duties within the Ortho unit.

You will perform call light responses, assist with mobility and hygiene, and help with data entry and documentation. A health unit coordinator background or relevant coursework is preferred, with a requirement of healthcare clerical experience.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or medical terminology and data entry coursework.
• Specialized education requirements include: acute care nursing assistant, long term care nursing assistant, EMT, medical assistant program, or clinical rotation in an accredited nursing program.
• Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months if above education is not met.
• Six months of clerical experience in healthcare; computer keyboard skills and Windows proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response, ambulating, transferring, positioning, and personal hygiene assistance.
• Collects, records, and reports patient/resident data; reports changes in condition.
• Provides general clerical support to the unit (answering phones, data entry, assembling and distributing information).

Skills

Nursing assistant experience

Clerical experience

Medical terminology

Data entry

Computer keyboard skills

Education

Health unit coordinator course

Medical terminology coursework

Medical assistant program

Clinical rotation in accredited nursing program

Tools

Windows

Data entry software

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Department:Ortho
Daily Work Times:7a-7p
Shift: Days
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 72

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.

2. Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.Reports changes in patient/resident condition.

3. Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

Required:

· High school graduate or equivalent.

· Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.

· Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:

o acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or

o long term care nursing assistant course or

o completion of an emergency medical technician program or

o completion of medical assistant program or

o completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.

· Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.

· Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.

· Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Additional Locations:Michigan, Lansing
• Requisition ID: 26004597
• Daily Work Times: 7a-7p
• On Call: No

Equal Opportunity Employer

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.