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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 and keeping locator boards current.
• Answers telephones and processes information, including transcribing physicians orders.
• Communicates and processes paperwork for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, ensuring Medical Records are complete.
• Maintains census and bed status reports, assembles patient charts, and files reports.
• Maintains office supplies and assists in maintaining nursing unit cleanliness and orderliness.
• Monitors, collects, and records patient information, vital signs, weights, and transports patients.
• Participates in patient nutritional well-being through tray delivery, assistance with set-up, and feeding, accurately recording input and output.
• Assists with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, positioning, and ambulation.
• Communicates pertinent information before end of shift summation.
• Rounds on patients and families to assess and address needs, reporting issues to the nurse.
• Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes, performs enemas and disimpactions, removes peripheral IV lines, and performs phlebotomy after specific training.
• Operates patient monitoring systems and performs bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, and Glucometery.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes, removes staples and sutures, assists with sterile procedures, and assists with restraint application/removal under RN direction.
• Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered and assists patients with oxygen use.
• Documents all care provided, assembles patient charts, posts results, 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 unit, cleans and stores equipment, empties trash, stocks supplies, inventories equipment, and processes broken equipment.
• Performs other required functions.

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

• PRN
• 12 Hour Days

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.