Cardiopulmonary Services Assistant

Salinas Valley Health•Salinas, CA

2d•$35 - $44•Onsite

About The Position

This position works under the supervision of the Senior Administrative Director of Cardiopulmonary Services or designee, Manager or Supervisor. The assistant helps with the preparation, processing, and distribution of patient charts, reports, and billing. They are responsible for scheduling patient tests and notifying the appropriate people. This role provides clerical support, answers departmental phones, and routes calls. The assistant utilizes hospital and department computer systems for various tasks including processing forms, procedures, policies, schedules, and other word processing/typing and projects as needed. They also perform other duties as assigned within the cardiopulmonary service line. This role accepts and completes assignments in all areas of the Neurodiagnostic, Respiratory PFT scheduling and Sleep Center in a timely manner. They perform all technical and clinical work as outlined in the American Society Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist Standards (ASET), including recording EEG awake and asleep, evoked potentials, AABR, and EEG seizure monitoring. The assistant demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient.

Requirements

A minimum of a high school diploma or GED required.
Current BLS/Healthcare Provider status as per American Heart Association standards Required.
Two to three years of recent clerical experience or equivalent combination of education and Experience.

Responsibilities

Prepares, processes, and distributes patient charts, reports, and billing.
Schedules outpatient appointments and keeps appropriate persons informed.
Maintains accurate patient records, related material, and appropriate documentation.
Updates the computer with patient information.
Answers departmental phones, confirms patients for evening sleep studies, reschedules cancellations and calls in from cancellation list, when applicable.
Advises Manager when six patient beds are not filled each evening, and routes calls appropriately, or takes messages as needed.
Greets evening patients, gives tour of lobby, control room, restrooms and fire exits, shows to their designated rooms, instructs patients on the use of electric bed and television remotes, pull string and audio/video.
Confirms identify of patients and applies patients’ wristbands.
Instructs patients to change into their evening clothes in their bedroom and points out the blind Spot.
Guides patients through electronic registration, confirms signatures and submits to admitting.
Provides clerical support, using the Hospital and Department computer systems to process forms, procedures, policies, schedules, and other word processing/typing and projects as needed.
Performs related duties such as special project assignments and assisting others.
Assumes active role in the Sleep Medicine Department’s Continuous Quality Improvement Program, and processing of reports.
Uses appropriate communication and teamwork skills when working with patients, co-workers and other hospital staff.
Establishes, maintains, and files computerized records and databases for the Cardiopulmonary Service Line.
Utilizes the Hospital and department computer systems (including PACS and Reporting Software, Microsoft Office including but not limited to Word, Excel, Visio, etc.).
Performs noninvasive Neurodiagnostic procedures such as awake, asleep EEG's, Evoked Potentials, EEG/Video monitoring, and AABR’s.