About This Role
This unit secretary position supports the operating room, providing clerical and administrative services under the direction of a Registered Nurse. The role involves excellent customer service, general reception duties, and maintaining a safe work environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
Responsibilities
- Be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
- Perform effective customer service skills, including responding to patients, family, and staff with kindness, courtesy, professionalism, and efficiency; walking visitors to their destination; and answering phones/intercoms in a friendly manner.
- Participate in patient care rounding in collaboration with unit staff, including daily introductions to patient/families with the use of AIDET.
- Manage ordering, stocking, and inventory of equipment and supplies in collaboration with the nurse manager.
- Monitor daily supplies, order office supplies, order special supplies, monitor PAR levels of supplies, and maintain/organize unit supply rooms.
- Perform general reception and clerical duties at the nurse’s station, including responding to patient calls via intercom or in person.
- Provide administrative and clerical support as needed for the unit, including data entry, meeting minutes, maintaining bulletin boards, and organizing downtime forms.
- Coordinate the maintenance of a safe, clean, and functional physical environment in accordance with regulatory standards.
- Monitor designated patient safety systems for alerts and immediately notify the appropriate RN.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Unit Secretary training program or unit-based on-the-job training
- No experience required
In lieu of Unit Secretary training, will accept:
- 6 months experience in a related healthcare setting or field or as an Administrative Assistant
- Completion of nursing fundamentals course
Important Details
- Schedule: Full-time, weekend days
About the Company
Prisma Health aims to transform healthcare for the benefit of the communities it serves.
