Under direct supervision of the professional staff the Clinical & Quality Assistant, Emergency Room performs certain non-complex duties related to patient care and functioning of the unit. The Clinical & Quality Assistant, Emergency Room functions to support the staff assisting with clerical duties along with delivery of patient care to varied age groups while providing a calm, caring and clean environment.
Essential Functions Include

• Assists other members of the healthcare team to deliver safe, appropriate, and quality patient care
• Assists with or provides basic nursing care in order to help the nurse meet the activities of daily living for the patient
• Assists with patient mobility needs including turning, positioning, transferring, and ambulation of patients as directed, using appropriate and proper body mechanics and assistive devices
• Maintains safe patient environment
• Responds to emergency situations within the scope of their training and performs under the direction of the nurse
• Performs vital signs, including use of automatic blood pressure machine as directed by nursing staff
• Under the direction of the nurse, provides basic skin care to prevent skin break breakdown and maintain or improve skin integrity
• Answers call bells and responds to patient requests within their scope or communicates patient needs to the nurse
• Transfers and moves patients via wheelchair, bed, or stretcher to appropriate locations within the hospital
• Possesses and demonstrates working knowledge of equipment in order to ensure a safe environment
• Maintains open communication with department staff and accepts direction to ensure a safe environment
• Understands and respects patients' rights to privacy and dignity in order to maintain patient confidentiality
• Ensures that equipment and supplies considered essential are functional, safe, and readily accessible in order to provide a safe environment
• Performs department specific maintenance duties as appropriate to department
• Acts as a patient advocate to ensure safe, appropriate, and quality patient care
• Adheres to standards of practice for infection control and universal precautions
• Assists with communication between the Department Manager, House Supervisor, and unit staff regarding the 24-Hour Report, admissions, transfers, and bed availability to operationalize department activities
• Answer phone, faxes request for patient information and physician discharge instructions to primary care providers per HIPAA guidelines
• Organizes, maintains, and updates departmental files and records in an accurate manner to provide for timely and efficient processing of information
• Copies and faxes records in a prompt manner according to established medical records policy in order to fulfill requests from appropriate sources
• Assumes responsibility for ordering and restocking supplies necessary for efficient operation of the department within budgetary parameters

Schedule 48 hours every 6 weeks, 24 of those hours on the weekend, 2 holidays/year.
Education and ExperienceHigh School Diploma/GED, required
Licenses and CertificationsBasic Life Support (BLS), provided upon hire
Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance for Full-time and Part-time
• 403B
• On-site discounted Child Care Center
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5250 per year
• Free Life Insurance
• Free Parking
• Paid Time Off
• Sick Time
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Referral Bonus