Unit Secretary

at  National Payroll Services Llc

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Emergency Room Receptionist
DEPARTMENT: Emergency Room
REPORTS TO: Director of Operations
SUMMARY: The Emergency Room Receptionist takes charge of collecting patient information, processing paperwork, and monitoring the waiting list. As an Emergency Room Receptionist, you must be both fast and efficient as well as calm and collected all at once.

• Provides general secretarial and clerical duties and other duties such as: placing charts in proper order, stamping documents including EMS log with date and name of patient, gathering and organization of emergency patient data, preparing charts, collecting data and completing general clerical duties.
• Completes physician order process and order entry.
• Confirms that a Registered Nurse signs all orders.
• Receives and relays messages with accuracy from other departments, e.g. Lab, X-ray, Admitting, etc.
• Confirms that lab requisitions for patients are completed and sent to Lab.
• Answers patient call lights in timely manner and follows up with appropriate nursing personnel with patient needs.
• Assesses and organizes workload, determines order of importance or prioritize work.
• Greet vendors, customers, job applicants and other visitors and arrange for transportation services when needed.
• Direct visitors by maintaining employee and department directories.
• May operate a multiline phone system to route incoming calls and place outgoing calls.
• Maintain security by following procedures, monitoring logbook, and issuing visitor badges.
• Take copayments, complete verifications