Full-Time Health Unit Clerk (HUC)

Essential Job Duties

• Organizes assigned activities in order to complete them in a timely fashion.
• Assists in organizing the unit and nurses' stations.
• Helps direct patient flow, retrieves charts from the physician's offices, tracks patient lab work and other documents; and monitors the admission lab turnaround.
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritize responsibilities.
• Must be able to work on all units as necessary.
• Initiates chart forms for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges; assembles admission charts.
• Maintains patients' charts in appropriate organizational and sequential order.
• Inventories unit stock ensuring availability of proper supplies.
• Files reports and test results in a timely manner.
• Prints out nursing notes.
• Maintains a supply of admission chart packs.
• Assists in maintaining the patient bed board.
• Calls for and obtains previous medical records for patients upon admission.
• Communicates patient requests to appropriate staff member in a timely manner.
• Schedules patients' appointments and pre-registers patients for existing appointments.
• Assists staff with answering the phone.
• Assists with duties of the Mental Health Tech as necessary.
• Assists with Emergency Code Response.
• Participates in therapeutic crisis intervention when needed with patients.
• Observes and monitors the patients' status and safety; delivers care according to standards consistent with multidisciplinary treatment and discharge plan, care directives, and expected outcomes.
• Assists RN and LPNs with daily set up and delineation of duties upon the approval of the RN.
• Contacts outpatient providers to notify of patient admission.
• Contacts parents for children/adolescents to notify of admission.

Schedule

Monday-Friday (8:00am-4:30pm)