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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, promoting accurate and timely unit communication.
• Keeps locator boards current.
• Answers telephones and processes information, including transcribing physicians orders.
• Communicates and processes paperwork for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Ensures Medical Records are complete and in order at discharge.
• Maintains correct census and bed status reports.
• Assembles and organizes patient charts daily.
• Maintains and accounts for office supplies for the unit.
• Assists in maintaining nursing unit cleanliness and orderliness.
• Monitors, collects, and records patient 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 patient nutritional well-being through tray delivery, assistance with set-up and feeding.
• Accurately records input and output.
• Assists with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, positioning, and ambulation.
• Communicates pertinent information for end-of-shift summation.
• Rounds on patients and families to assess and address needs, concerns, or comfort issues.
• Reports information to the responsible nurse for resolution.
• Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes.
• Performs enemas and disimpactions.
• Removes peripheral, intravenous therapy lines.
• Performs phlebotomy on certain units after specific training.
• Operates patient monitoring systems (e.g., cardiac and fetal heart monitoring).
• Performs bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometery, and urinalysis.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes.
• Removes staples and sutures.
• 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 patient record.
• Posts laboratory and other results in the patient chart.
• Uses the computerized documentation system.
• Delivers specimens to Laboratory, Microbiology, and Pathology.
• 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.
• 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

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
• 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.