What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Care Secretary - Full Time, Rotating position at Crozer Health?
As a Patient Care Secreatary at Crozer Health, you will provide high-quality direct and indirect patient-centered care by coordinating patient care, and working collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team, patients, and families.The Patient Care Secretary provides organizational and clerical support to patient care units and the healthcare nursing department as assigned.
At Crozer Health, you will find care you can trust from people who truly understand the people we care for. We know our communities better than anyone — who we are, what makes us thrive — because we are your friends, family, and neighbors. We provide clinical excellence across a broad range of services right here at home.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assembling patient charts, maintain the proper order of sheets, labeling each with barcode label and replenishing sheets as necessary.
- Prepares charts of patients scheduled for surgery and/or special studies
- Completed records and reports as assigned
- Communicates with other departments and/or family as necessary concerning patient status, transfer
- Transcribes physicians’ orders, completing request forms, contacting physicians when consultations requested, ordering equipment, and documenting on the necessary chart forms and kardexes. Enters orders as appropriate through EOE and assists the providers with entering orders. Utilizes orders reconciliation in POE phase to clean up the orders screen
- Greets and directs visitors and patients
- Sorts and delivers mail to patients
- Maintains adequate supplies and inventory in conjunction with other personnel.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Post-secondary preparation in a health care, clerical or business program
- Patient Care Secretary should be fully conversant in medical and health terminology. Basic Keyboard skills
- Mandated and Permissive Reporter Training
We offer the largest network of primary care physicians in the county, as well as four hospitals to serve your needs, from delivering babies to open-heart surgery. We provide some of the most advanced neurosciences, burn, and trauma services on the East Coast. We offer the individualized care everyone in our community deserves.
If all this sounds good, apply now!
