Unit Coordinator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED/equivalent.
• Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association.
• Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written formats.
• Ability to learn and appropriately use the electronic documentation system and other relevant systems and databases.
• Ability to think critically through complex patient situations, process improvements, and evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrate initiative, communication, problem-solving, proactive planning, service excellence, organization, flexibility, critical thinking, strong work ethic, interpersonal skills, and teamwork.
• Maintain confidentiality, follow safety standards, work collaboratively, and provide effective customer service.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of a recognized Clinical Assistant, Medical Assistant, or EMT training program, or nursing students who have completed a Fundamentals of Nursing course at an accredited school of nursing.
• Certification as a Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.), Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).
• Current good standing with a state licensing board, or enrollment in an accredited school of nursing with completion of a Fundamentals of Nursing course; LPNs may apply.

Responsibilities

• Transcribe and compute physician orders, department orders, and messages accurately; communicate physician orders to the responsible nurse.
• Assemble, organize, set up, and maintain patient medical records and admission charts; check charts for completeness when patients are discharged or transferred.
• Handle desk communications promptly, including intercom calls, pages, and routing messages and requests for patient information to the appropriate person or nurse.
• Collect required unit data and replace forms in patient medical records as needed.
• Measure and document intake and output, heights, weights, and vital signs.
• Apply, monitor, and document restraint usage.
• Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens; perform and document point-of-care testing.
• Perform and document patient mobility and exercise, comfort, rest, sleep, hygiene, grooming, dressing, skin and nail care, dietary, toileting, and elimination needs.
• Organize equipment and supplies; complete bedmaking and unit cleaning assignments.
• Perform and document perineal care and apply unsterile hot/cold packs or compresses, bandages, and elastic stockings.
• Safely operate beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, hypo/hyperthermia units, mechanical lifts, bed scales, and other equipment.
• Order stock and maintain and enter charged items at the end of the shift according to procedure.
• Orient new personnel to the desk.
• Assist with admitting, physical examinations, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Transport patients, laboratory work, specimens, and blood.
• Follow universal precautions, infection-control, OSHA, regulatory, facility safety, and other applicable policies and procedures.
• Comply with company policies, procedures, standards of conduct, and HIPAA privacy and security requirements; maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrate professional, courteous, and effective communication with others, including in telephone interactions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.