Health Unit Coordinator - Part Time - Rotating
- Cincinnati, OH
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Keep Clinical Manager and staff informed of any issues.
- Greet and assist patients, visitors, and staff as a receptionist.
- Answer patient call lights promptly and courteously.
- Maintain positive customer relations with physicians, visitors, and patients, using clear and respectful phone etiquette.
- Transfer calls to appropriate personnel efficiently.
- Handle phone inquiries with accuracy, courtesy, and confidentiality.
- Facilitate communication with ancillary departments as needed.
- Collaborate professionally with hospital departments.
- Serve as a resource for locating supplies and medical records.
- Communicate with physician offices about patient consultations and records.
- Adhere to departmental and hospital customer service standards.
- Maintain admit/discharge logs (census cards).
- Ensure timely patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
- Enter transport requests into EPIC Bed Management.
- Obtain signatures for Consent to Hospital and Medical Treatment Forms as needed.
- Make copies of Advanced Directives for patient charts.
- Complete consults in Epic accurately.
- Place calls for STAT requests.
- Follow downtime procedures for manual order entry (SRO, BCA Web, BCA Standalone).
- Prepare requisitions for services (e.g., maintenance, clinical engineering).
- Enter and record unit-based charges as needed.
- Run daily audits/reports in EPIC as directed by the department manager.
- Maintain current and old patient charts.
- Place forms and results into charts promptly.
- Copy and retrieve medical records as necessary.
- Keep charts organized and in designated order.
- Prepare charts for new patients, ensuring face sheets, labels, and armbands are included.
- Break down charts for discharged patients, placing the face sheet on top.
- Ensure all mobile phones have charged batteries.
- Monitor the tube system, emptying and distributing contents to appropriate nurses.
- Periodically check the fax machine for incoming faxes and forward to the correct personnel.
- Maintain and refill printers, copiers, and fax machines.
- Perform routine maintenance on fax machines, copiers, printers, etc.
- Order, verify, and store supplies and equipment, maintaining an appropriate inventory as directed by the manager.
- Handle typing and filing tasks for the unit (excluding patient records).
- Assist with unit-specific needs as directed by the manager or charge RN.
- Complete errands accurately and promptly.
- Submit Plant Maintenance Work Requisitions as needed.
- Notify Clinical Engineering about malfunctioning equipment.
- Regularly observe the functioning of equipment and report malfunctions to the appropriate personnel (charge RN, Clinical Engineering, Maintenance, Help Desk, POMS).
- Identify and report potential safety hazards.
- Be familiar with the locations of fire alarms, extinguishers, and hoses.
- Keep the nurses' station clean, tidy, and organized at all time
- Serve as a positive role model, maintaining a positive attitude.
- Ensure timely and appropriate follow-through on job functions.
- Participate in unit governance activities.
- Collaborate with the Clinical Manager to develop, implement, and evaluate Process Improvement Plan initiatives to enhance outcomes.
- Advocate for High Reliability principles in patient care and operational efficiency.
- Use data to drive improvement efforts.
- Attend in-services and unit meetings or review meeting minutes.
- Maintain the integrity of unit equipment (cleaning, repairs).
- Train and orient new employees as requested.
- Respond to emergencies and follow directed actions.
- Adhere to the chain of command.
- Complete all unit assignments as requested.
- Communicate with EICU when patients are admitted, transferred, or undergoing procedures in the room or off the floor.
- Demonstrate appropriate communication and support during the death and dying process.
- Keep the Charge RN informed of your whereabouts at all times; always carry a mobile phone and forward all unit calls to it, except during breaks.
- Reconcile unit charges daily.
- Complete device days audits daily.
- Utilize EPIC Bed Management as appropriate for the department.
- Place Hourly Rounding cards in each patient room.
- Handle typing and filing tasks for the unit (excluding patient records).
- Maintain restraint logs, audit them, and communicate discrepancies to the charge nurse.
- Check patient rooms twice per shift for cleanliness, supplies, and equipment.
- Restock areas as needed and each shift.
- Ensure adequate supply of materials and equipment, report shortages to the charge person, and document equipment locations daily.
- Clean and prepare equipment as directed.
- Pick up and deliver equipment, returning unneeded items to the appropriate department.
- Check supplies for sterility dates and rotate stock daily.
- Handle oxygen tanks according to policy.
- Assist with patient transportation.
- Proactively assist RNs in patient care as directed.
- Complete cleaning duties as required.
- Initiate CPR when needed and provide safety measures.
- Check and empty trash and linen receptacles as needed.
- Keep work areas clean and organized.
- Assist with patient transfers, collecting and delivering personal belongings to new units as directed.
- Collaborate with booking to manage patient transfers and update EPIC accordingly.
- Communicate with physicians, family members, and other healthcare agents.
- Maintain stock of materials and equipment on the unit.
- Clean equipment and work areas as needed.
- Ensure necessary equipment is available and pick up/deliver equipment as needed.
- Document all admissions and status changes on the daily printed OR schedule. Addendum for Labor and Delivery
- Collaborate with the Admitting office to admit patients and their infants once born.
- Familiarize yourself with consent forms, advanced directives, and limitation of treatment forms, and assist families in signing them as needed.
- Understand and monitor the infant security system, activating security tags on infants.
- Document all births in the delivery log and schedule cases in EPIC.
- Maintain stock of materials and equipment on the unit.
- Clean equipment and work areas as needed.
- Ensure necessary equipment is available, pick up and deliver equipment.
- Document all admissions in the SCN log.
- Collect and fax data when required.
- Refer to unit/department-specific orientation materials and/or clinical performance records.
- Develop, plan, and provide onboarding for TCH new hire HUCS.