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Part-Time
OB Unit Clerk
Multiple Teams
Posted on 10/3/2025
Bronson Methodist Hospital
No salary listed
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
In Person
Category
 Clerical & Data Entry (1) |
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Requirements
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required for those hired on or after 6/1/2017
- Ability to successfully complete the organizations' competency requirements for English, writing, spelling and reading comprehension
- Ability to successfully complete the hospital’s orientation, core orientation and unit specific orientation
- Working knowledge of medical terminology
- Ability to input and retrieve data from the organization's computerized systems
- The organizational skills to maintain records and orderly filing systems and to manage multiple processes simultaneously
- Must be able to communicate effectively with patients, visitors, and all members of the care delivery team
Responsibilities
- Coordinates the flow of information throughout the unit/department for all staff
- Answers telephone and nurse call system and provides information or relays messages to patients, visitors and medical staff
- Directs visitors to patients’ rooms or visitor waiting areas
- Distributes mail, newspapers, and flowers to patients
- Compiles census of patients, maintains records and distributes information in accordance with unit/department procedures
- Coordinates with the charge nurse to insure smooth, efficient and timely patient flow into, through and out of the department
- Responsible for performing clerical duties and processing equipment and staff requests relative to department needs
- Records name of patient, address, and name of attending Physician to prepare medical records on new patients
- Keeps file of medical records on patients in unit
- Monitors and requisitions supplies designated by nursing staff, organizes and stores such in accordance with unit/department procedures
- Gathers/inputs/retrieves information into various computerized systems
- Transports patients and guests to locations within facility, under direction or as needed
- Stocking to facilitate patient care in unit assigned to
- Take admission paperwork to room, facilitate and complete Medicare/important message, and other assigned paperwork as directed by RN
- Manage incoming Tubes from tube station and deliver meds or other items to the RN
- Work with transport to monitor elevator bays for beds/carts
- Assist in monitoring Environment of Care
- Other duties as assigned (passing water, getting towel) attending to patient and family needs
- Maintains unsupervised access to the unit medication room(s) for stocking and/or retrieving supplies
- Hold and cuddle stable newborn infants under the direction and supervision of the RN (OB Mother Baby/Antepartum only)
- Function as a Patient Safety Assistant for suicide precautions only, which includes observation and reporting patient activities and behaviors and appropriate response intervention to assure patient safety
- Maintain appropriate knowledge level to assist in patient turns and assist in patient transfer to commode/bathroom
- Uses correct body positioning, proper body mechanics to avoid injury, utilizes safe work practices (e.g. pushing vs. pulling, patient transfer/lifting devices, etc.) and uses personal protective equipment when necessary
- 80% Observation and prevention of unsafe patient behavior/activity
- 10% Communicating with the responsible R.N. about patient status and pertinent input to facilitate care planning
- 5% Accompanies patients for diagnostic tests occasionally
- 5% Maintains a clean and orderly environment
Desired Qualifications
- 1-3 months related experience and/or training preferred
- Previous healthcare experience preferred
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