Job Description

• Answer the telephone professionally.
• Request lab and x-rays when ordered by the physician.
• Maintain lab records and track/monitor timeliness.
• Request annual H&P, labs, and TB on the resident.
• Set up appointments and transportation.
• Copy paperwork to be sent out with resident - emergent/nonemergent.
• Check the unit clerk section of the MD logbook daily.
• Ensuring resident has appropriate name band.
• Updating cards in residents’ closets.
• Faxing to physicians, checking completion of orders.
• Resident podiatrist and eye appointments - obtain list, consents, sending letters and obtaining referrals if necessary.
• Coordination of resident appointments.
• Maintain forms for nurse's station.
• Preparing folder, charts, MD log, and closed charts for MD visit.
• Prepare charts for new admissions.
• Assists the director of nursing with chart audits for the following:

• Completion upon admission.
• Thinning
• Monthly summaries by nursing, physician progress notes and other documentation as mandated by the Departments of Health and Welfare.
• Completion upon discharge and/or death.
• Annual physical.
• Completion in charting.
• Performs other related duties as required by the Director of Nursing/Administrator.
• Keep nurses station organized.
• Duties during fire alarm including gather all resident charts in the 3 carts, CAN Documentation
• Operating door alarms.
• Enters all lab reports, signed verbal orders and correspondence into the resident record upon review by the Charge Nurse or Unit Supervisor.
• Color-code the resident charts for the level of care they are receiving.

Job Requirements

• Must be able to write the English language in a legible and understandable manner.
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, and the general public.

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  Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long-term care.
• Must possess leadership and supervisory ability and the willingness to work harmoniously with professional and non-professional personnel.
• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.
• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to speak the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to cope with the mental stress of the position. Must be able to see and hear, or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to assure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
• Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must be in good general health and demonstrate emotional stability.
• Must be able to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and at times hostile people within the facility