Unit Technician - PRN - Med Surg
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Lane Regional Medical Center
Zachary, LA, US
Summary
The Unit Technician assists with patient admissions, transfers, and discharges while providing daily hygiene care and support to nursing staff. They also manage clerical tasks, maintain patient charts, and facilitate communication within the nursing unit.
Job Description
- Assist in preparation of patient rooms and beds for receiving patient admissions, patients returning from surgical procedures, transfers, emergencies and discharges.
- Assist in and accompanies patients in the admission, transfer and discharge procedures.
- Provides post-mortem care and assists in transporting bodies to the morgue.
- Provides daily hygiene care, which may include bed baths, oral hygiene, combing hair, skin care, dressing patients, changing and/or freshening bed linen, cleaning overbed tables and bedside stands, straightening room and other general care as necessary throughout the day.
- Assist RN or LPN with patient care interventions.
- Answers telephone and call lights. Takes messages and communicates messages to proper person. Communication is effective, courteous and tactful.
- Performs clerical duties related to the admission, transfer and discharge of patients. Assist patients, visitors and physicians in the nursing unit.
- Compiles new charts, maintains current charts and enters patient information in the computer, and other necessary forms.
At Lane Regional Medical Center, we value community and take pride in the role we play as caregivers. It is an honor to say that we serve as the primary healthcare resource for more than 200,000 of our neighbors located throughout Zachary and the surrounding region of Baker, Central, Clinton, Jackson, St. Francisville, New Roads, North Baton Rouge and Southern Mississippi.
As part of our continued dedication to serving our community and providing the highest quality of care, we continue to recruit new physicians to the area and to provide access to the very best healthcare services, technologies and programs available in the region.
Founded
1960
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Zachary, Louisiana
At Lane Regional Medical Center, we value community and take pride in the role we play as caregivers. It is an honor to say that we serve as the primary healthcare resource for more than 200,000 of our neighbors located throughout Zachary and the surrounding region of Baker, Central, Clinton, Jackson, St. Francisville, New Roads, North Baton Rouge and Southern Mississippi.
As part of our continued dedication to serving our community and providing the highest quality of care, we continue to recruit new physicians to the area and to provide access to the very best healthcare services, technologies and programs available in the region.
Founded
1960
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Zachary, Louisiana
