Unit Clerk
Summary
Handles clerical support for a dialysis center, including updating patient records, admissions/discharges, scheduling clinics, entering lab work, preparing reports, and ordering supplies.
Highlights
- Experience
- Some previous clerical experience
- Education
- High School Diploma
- Type
- Full-Time
Job description
Job Summary
To assist in the clerical and clinical management of the Dialysis Center and act as administrative assistant to the management staff of the department.
Responsibilities
- Keeps patient information up to date in professional patient file and affinity, by entering monthly lab work, med changes and other clinical circumstances.
- Registers, admits and discharges all dialysis patients to the Dialysis units in the EMR system.
- Schedules CAPD monthly clinics (includes: set up date, time and lab work for patients, mail out notices). Prints out patient care forms for multi-disciplinary team.
- Sets up, correlates and enters monthly and bi-monthly blood work for hemodialysis patients.
- Makes up packets for RO water and machine cultures monthly to include: completion of forms, notification to Lab of pickup and arrival times. Notifies management of results.
- Responsible for copying Lab work to send to primary physicians, Nephrologist, billing and appropriate agencies.
- Types and sends out agendas and minutes for various committees or unit documents as needed.
- Collects data and distributes to appropriate staff for QA purposes.
- Orders all office supplies, Lab supplies for all units of the Dialysis Department.
- Performs any other duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Requirements
EXPERIENCE
Minimum – some previous clerical experience; preferred – prior medical experience
EDUCATION
Minimum – High School Diploma; preferred – 2 yr. College degree