at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Essential Functions:
1) Document Patient information.
2) Process doctors orders.
3) Communicate with co-workers, patients, visitors, and physicians.
4) Answer the telephone.
5) Use the intercom. Provide the information to the appropriate person or place throughout the department and facility.
6) Maintain the paper medical record.
7) Initiate CPR.
8) Organize and prioritize work to complete daily assignment.
9) Participates in quality assurance, assessment and improvement activities.
10) Follow all infection control procedures and policies (including use of universal/standard precautions).
11) Interpret telemetry monitor.
12) Performs other duties as assigned.
Non-Essential Functions:
13) Performs activities related to necessary ongoing operations of the unit: a) ordering; b) restocking; c) cleaning.
14) Assists patients with activities of daily living.
15) Transport patients by pushing, pulling, lifting; in a wheelchair, bed, cart of geri chair.
16) Reposition patients with or without mechanical devices, by lifting, pulling and pushing.
Physical Demands:
May require constant sitting and grasping. It requires frequent lifting and carrying up to 5 lbs and bending.
The job requires frequent reaching and twisting, as well as frequent pushing and pulling of objects up to 10 lbs.
Occasionally walking is required. Eye-hand coordination, and finger and manual dexterity are required.
Requires corrected hearing and vision to a normal range. Use of office equipment such as computers,
telephones, copies and intercom is required. Repetitive movements such as typing and writing are required.
Use of office equipment such as telephones, copying machines, computers, fax machines, pagers, and intercoms
may be required. Job requires working under stressful conditions and/or irregular hours. Job requires potential
exposure to body fluids and radiation. Requires the ability to distinguish letters and symbols.
Working Conditions:
Includes working frequent weekends and holidays, with potential for varied shifts, overtime,
cost containment absent days, or standby time
