Unit Clerk (Full-Time)

The Unit Clerk will perform clerical duties and provides administrative and secretarial support to one or more nursing units and serves as a point of contact for staff, patients, care givers and other healthcare organizations.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Communicates with members of the health care team, patients, and visitors using verbal and written means and equipment such as the telephone and intercom.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient information.
• Stamps, assembles, completes, and processes patients' charts. Keeps patient records accurately identified. Transcribes doctors orders per hospital policy.
• Prepares and maintains the units medical information system including patient profiles.
• Checks charts daily for incomplete histories and operative summaries and brings these to the attention of the appropriate member of the health...