Unit Clerk
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Overview:

Since 1885, CHI St. Alexius Health has been dedicated to leading health care in this region by enriching the lives of patients through the highest quality of care. We seek to continue our tradition of success and innovation with individuals dedicated to delivering the highest level of expertise and quality. Together we can continue to grow and support the legacy of CHI St. Alexius Health for many years to come.

CHI St. Alexius Health is a regional health network with a tertiary hospital in Bismarck, the system also consists of critical access hospitals (CAHs) in Carrington, Dickinson, Devils Lake, Garrison, Turtle Lake, Washburn and Williston and numerous clinics and outpatient services. CHI St. Alexius Health manages four CAHs in North Dakota - Elgin, Linton, and Wishek, as well as Mobridge Regional Medical Center in Mobridge, S.D. CHI St. Alexius Health offers a comprehensive line of inpatient and outpatient medical services, including: a Level II Trauma Center, primary and specialty physician clinics, home health and hospice services, durable medical equipment services, a fitness and human performance center and ancillary services throughout western and central North Dakota.

CHI St. Alexius Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. It was created in February 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. CommonSpirit Health is committed to creating healthier communities, delivering exceptional patient care, and ensuring every person has access to quality health care.

We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft
• Free Membership to Care.com
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• 457(b) Retirement Program and Matching 403(b) Retirement Program
• Wellness Program

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:

• Adheres to St. Alexius Medical Center mission, values, and Journey Beyond Excellence expectations to foster a compassionate, healing environment providing physiological, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and visitors.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to St. Alexius Medical Center policies, regulated by governing agency regulations.
• Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assist with toileting and bathing.
• Provides for activities of daily living to include feeding, ambulating, and positioning patients.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs, weight; and intake and output and reports concerns or changes to assigned nurse.
• Answers patients' call lights, addresses and maintains a safe clean environment.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Answers telephone using policy for telephone etiquette, assist with call lights, and provides information or relays messages to patients and medical staff.
• Maintains a neat and orderly nurse station.
• Prepares admit and discharge patient charts.
• Records information, such as physicians' orders and instructions, dietary requirements, and medication information, on patient plan of care.
• Maintains current list of admissions, discharges, and transfers within the unit.
• Requisitions supplies designated by nursing staff.
• Successfully completes the defined job specific competencies, including competencies for age specific, as appropriate.

Qualifications:

Education: High school student, graduate or equivalent.

Licensure: Must be listed on a Nurse Assistant Registry operated by the North Dakota Board of Nursing, State Department and consolidated Laboratories by the North Dakota Board of Nursing, If not on a registry, then must obtain placement on one immediately following orientation and training by St. Alexius Medical Center as stated in the policy Eligibility for Employment as Nurse Assistant.

Experience: No previous experience necessary. Preferred hospital experience, aide experience or satisfaction completion of certification/training program.

Skills: Computer ability, telephone proficiency/etiquette, basic office/receptionist skills. Able to read, write and comprehend medical terminology. Able to organize assignments and work under pressure. Typing required. Basic Life Support Certification within the orientation period and meets re-certification as required.

Interpersonal Skills: Good communication skills are necessary because of the constant communication, both oral and written, with patients, families, visitors, and medical center staff. Accountable for own conduct and promotes and supports positive working relationships among staff, between other disciplines, departments, families, visitors, and patients. Maintains confidentiality.

Physical Effort: Safe levels of physical effort will not exceed:

Lifting: (between knuckle and shoulder height) up to 30 lbs.

Carrying: (between hip and shoulder height for a distance up to 28 feet), up to 40 lbs.

Pulling: initial forces up to 50 lbs of force.

Pushing: initial forces up to 45 lbs of force or sustained forces 15-20 lbs.