Unit Specialist | Labor & Delivery | Nights | Full Time

UF Health • Saint Augustine, FL

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About The Position

The Unit Specialist in Labor & Delivery is responsible for providing both direct and indirect care services to patients, ensuring their comfort and safety while assisting nursing staff with various tasks. This role includes clerical duties to support the department's operations and facilitate effective patient care delivery.

Requirements

• High school diploma required.
• 1 year of hands-on patient care experience or 2nd semester RN student.
• CNA, EMT, or CMA required within 1 year of hire.

Responsibilities

• Assists with admission, discharge, and transferring of patients.
• Updates hospital tracking system to reflect patient transfer.
• Answers intercom, call system and telephone and promptly relays messages as necessary.
• Initiates calls to physicians as ordered.
• Obtains and documents vital signs & weight accurately and reports abnormal results to the nurse; documents appropriately on the electronic medical record.
• Assists with providing for the physical comfort and safety of patients (i.e. bath and linen changes, dietary intake, and other necessary treatments).
• Ensures security of patient's personal items and reports discrepancies to supervisor in a timely fashion.
• Documents patient intake/output, sends urine specimens to labs as ordered, performs daily phlebotomy as ordered, collects and labels tubes properly using hospital protocol and performs bedside glucose monitoring as instructed by nurse.
• Assists nurse and/or physician with implementing treatment interventions (i.e. sterile and non-sterile soaks and/or dressings).
• Obtains supplies and equipment as needed for patients and restocks supplies when needed, ensuring that all supplies used are properly charged to the patients.
• Provides for patient safety through preventative measures (bed controls, nurse/patient communication system, side rails).
• Completion of annual required training and learning modules including 'Safe Medication Handling for Staff Who Do Not Administer Medications'.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by management within job scope.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: High school or GED