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About the Role

Performs secretarial/clerical duties while acting as a communication center for the nursing unit. Performs specific patient care procedures under the direction of a licensed Nurse and/or performs specific support procedures for the operation of a Nursing or Clinical Department. Operates patient monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Greets and directs customers courteously, promoting and facilitating accurate and timely unit communication, and keeping locator boards current.
• Answers telephones and efficiently processes information, including accurately transcribing physicians orders.
• Communicates and processes necessary paperwork/information for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, ensuring the Medical Record is complete and in order at discharge.
• Maintains correct census and bed status reports, assembles patient charts, and organizes them daily by filing pertinent reports and adding blank forms as needed.
• Maintains and accounts for office supplies for the unit, and assists in maintaining nursing units cleanliness and orderliness.
• Monitors, collects, and records information in the patient record, collects and records vital signs, weights, and other patient data.
• Transports patients and documents action in the patient record.
• Participates in the nutritional well-being of patients through tray delivery, assistance with patient set-up and feeding, and accurately records input and output.
• Assists with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, positioning, and ambulation.
• Communicates information pertinent to the end of shift summation before leaving the unit.
• Rounds on patients and families frequently to assess and address personal needs, concerns, or comfort-related issues, reporting information to the responsible nurse for resolution when necessary.
• Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes, performs enemas and disimpactions, removes peripheral intravenous therapy lines, and performs phlebotomy on certain units after specific training.
• Operates patient monitoring systems specific to unit needs, such as cardiac and fetal heart monitoring, and performs bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometery, and urinalysis.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes, removes staples and sutures, and assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures.
• Assists with application and removal of restraints under the direction of an RN.
• Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered without altering settings or determining rates, assists patients with portable or wall oxygen, and assures proper storage of E cylinders.
• Documents all care provided in the appropriate place in the patient record, assembles patient charts, posts laboratory and other results in the patient chart, and uses the computerized documentation system.
• Delivers specimens to Laboratory, Microbiology, and Pathology, and transports x-rays, blood products, and equipment.
• Ensures cleanliness of nutrition areas and general unit, cleans and stores equipment, empties trash, linen bags, and sharps containers.
• Stocks medical supplies, linens, and paper goods, inventories equipment as required, processes broken equipment as directed, and maintains equipment logs as required.
• Performs other functions as required.

Requirements

• High School/GED
• Clinical experience OR completion of Unit Secretary course OR completion of self-study module preferred.
• Must successfully complete competency verification before starting on assigned unit.
• BLS required at time of hire.

Skills

• EPIC electronic charting system

Location

• 1100 Central Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106-4930

Work Type

• Part time
• 12 Hour Nights

Experience Level

• Not specified

Education Level

• High School/GED

Salary/Compensations

• Minimum Offer $16.37
• Maximum Offer $24.89

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• Access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

About the Company

• Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve.
• We are a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group.
• Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.
• Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

Equal Opportunity

• AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED.
• PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.