Unit Assistant - Same Day Surgery

McLaren Health Care; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Part-time schedule

Job summary

McLaren Health Care is seeking a Night Shift, Part-time Health Unit Coordinator-style support to assist nursing staff in the Same Day Surgery department. Under RN supervision, you will help with patient care activities, data entry, and clerical tasks to keep the unit running smoothly.

Responsibilities include responding to call lights, assisting with mobility and hygiene, recording patient data, and coordinating basic information flow.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Training or coursework in medical terminology and data entry preferred.
• Specialized nursing assistant or related healthcare training is a plus.
• Minimum six months healthcare clerical or direct patient care experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist nursing staff and support patient/resident care per care plan.
• Provide routine care such as call-light response, mobility help, hygiene assistance.
• Perform general clerical duties and data entry tasks on unit.

Skills

Clerical skills

Patient care experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Medical terminology knowledge

Nursing assistant training

Healthcare data entry experience

Tools

Data entry

Medical terminology

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, 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 center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Department: Same Day Surgery
Daily Work Times: Varies
Shift: Nights
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 48

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:
  • acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or
  • long term care nursing assistant course or
  • completion of an emergency medical technician program or
  • completion of medical assistant program or
  • 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: Part-time
• Requisition ID: 26011320
• Daily Work Times: Varies
• On Call: No

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.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout 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 classificationprotected by law.