subject: Unit Clerk - Maintain The Structure Of Nursing [print this page] Unit Clerk - Maintain The Structure Of Nursing
Unit clerk is an important member of nursing and other section that maintains clerical work including telephone communication, typing, data entry, and arrangement of medical supplies. Also they are monitoring on all incoming calls as well as delivering the fax-printout to particular departments.
* With the help of unit clerk the patients can fix appointments with the doctors regarding their health problem. The unit clerk will handle the total medical supplies according to direction of the nursing home owner. They will keep aware patients, visitors, guests, and others people about the policy or rules of the company.
* According to information of the nurse and physician, unit clerk will maintain the birth record. The clerks are trying their level best to take proper care of the patients as well as the guests to maintain the goodwill of the company and creating a familiar atmosphere. At the same way, they are suggesting the company owner about the requirements for proper development.
* Also they can guide the fresh staffs in their tanning section. At the end of month they may need to prepare the salary report of staffs as well as up-to-date total business and stock of the store. So, the unit clerk is a vital part of nursing section.
* The health care jobs are considered secure & better paying than the comparable jobs in some other industries and one entry-level position to think is that of hospital unit clerk. Also, it is essential job in the hospitals & clinics, or it is entry point to some other jobs in facility.
* Unit clerks handle the clerical as well as other administrative tasks for hospital or clinic. Also, they assemble the patient records & file them for the consistent and easy access.
* They make labels & do some other paperwork & help in finding files like needed. They order supplies like directed by the doctors & nurses and make sure those supplies are rightly delivered. They answer telephones & guide patients & visitors.
* Unit clerks record the staffing information & compile attendance records. They should handle duties fast & simultaneously. The patient records are complex, and with the orders from the multiple physicians, and test results, diet as well as therapy care plans, insurance information and personal contact.
