Unit Assistant - Same Day Surgery

1.     Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.

2.     Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.  Reports changes in patient/resident condition.

3.     Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

Required:

·       High school graduate or equivalent.

·       Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.

·       Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:

o   acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or

o   long term care nursing assistant course or

o   completion of an emergency medical technician program or

o   completion of medical assistant program or

o   completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.

·     Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.

• →BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).

Preferred:

·       Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.

·       Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.