Cath lab Board Runner

Required Skills

Interacts with a variety of hospital personnel, doctors’ offices, patients, and visitors in a manner that enhances delivery of patient care and promotes positive relationships:

• Cooperates with personnel from other departments in a friendly, effective manner.
• Welcomes and directs visitors courteously.
• Answers telephone promptly and identifies unit, self, and job title.
• Uses paging system for physicians, anesthesiologists, and other personnel.
• Uses intradepartmental intercom system.
• Locates surgical personnel upon request.
• Places telephone calls upon request.
• Distributes mail to employee mail boxes.
• Behaves in accordance with hospital guest-relations programs, goals, and MMC Statement of Values.

Processes and communicates information accurately and clearly according to established procedure:

• Discriminates and sets priorities for received information.
• Receives and delivers telephone messages for doctors and residents.
• Receive Anesthesia calls regarding central lines, etc., and route appropriately to CRNA or physicians.
• Delivers emergency and or patient-related telephone messages to personnel.
• Provides appropriate verbal or written information to other departments as necessary.
• Refers requests from news media to Public Relations department.
• Operates pneumatic-tube system correctly.
• Operates hospital computer terminals correctly.
• Operates multi-line phone and several phones efficiently and effectively.
• Operates and maintains normal office machines with care and efficiency.

Performs non-clinical nursing tasks according to policy and established procedure:

• Sends for patients.
• Assembles and imprints OR records with addressograph for patient’s chart.
• Assigns surgical assistants and volunteers to run errands per request.
• Processes patient transfers or admits to the appropriate unit.
• Runs daily schedules for the OR staff and other pertinent hospital departments.
• Runs scheduling reports for physicians and OR staff.
• Calls for x-rays for added cases.
• Runs patient-billing report from Cerner system.
• Provides admitting with patient count based on the OR record of operation.
• Watches patients at front desk while waiting for units to pick up.
• Runs errands, picks up x-rays, and delivers specimens on weekends.

Maintains unit record according to established procedure:

• Completes patient charges for OR and Anesthesia patients during the day of surgery.
• Checks and balances OR record of operation with patient-charge sheet.
• Checks and balances OR and Anesthesia records.
• Completes patient records on Cerner system for ELL and CVOR from previous day by 10 a.m. daily.
• Completes pre-anesthesia evaluation sheets for next-day patients.

Embodies the Memorial Health System Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:

• SAFETY: Prevent Harm – I put safety first in everything I do.  I take action to ensure the safety of others.
• COURTESY: Serve Others – I treat others with dignity and respect.  I project a professional image and positive attitude.
• QUALITY: Improve Outcomes – I continually advance my knowledge, skills and performance.  I work with others to achieve superior results.
• EFFICIENCY: Reduce Waste – I use time and resources wisely.  I prevent defects and delays.

Requisition services and maintains supplies and equipment for unit according to need and cost-containment objectives:

• Informs medical secretary of needed office supplies in respect to established standard quantities.
• Places supplies in proper location.
• Maintains adequate supplies of required OR forms.
• Completes dietary requisition for surgeons’ lounge monthly.

Assists in promoting efficient functioning of the unit in the interest of patient care.

• Complies with hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and behavioral expectations.
• Follows designated lines of communication and authority in department.
• Assists co-workers when time allows.
• Keeps orderly work area.
• Assists in on-the-job instruction to new secretary trainees.
• Rotates shifts for weekend and complete coverage.
• Notifies appropriate OR, AM Admit, Anesthesia, Holding, and Recovery Room staff of all added and canceled cases.
• Attends 65 percent or a minimum of 6 unit-staff meetings per year, whichever number is greater. Seeks excused absence from supervisor when needed.  Reviews and signs minutes.
• Attends mandatory inservices.
• Meets punctuality and attendance expectations.
• Consistently utilizes time and resources effectively and efficiently.
• Cooperates with all members of the health care team.
• Maintains personal cleanliness and appearance.
• Enthusiastically supports and participates in planned changes.
• Accepts responsibility for accurate and timely completion of tasks as assigned.
• Discourages gossip with and about others; does not repeat rumors.

Performs secretarial duties and OR scheduling duties according to established procedure and specific instructions of supervisor.

• Schedules cases accurately with pertinent information noted.
• Notifies specialty-resource nurses regarding special equipment and instrument requests.
• Checks scheduling computer for conflicts in scheduling.
• Refers physician’s office complaints to appropriate nursing personnel.
• Confirms scheduling of tentative cases.
• Schedules other departmental services needed (i.e., C-arm from X-ray).
• Notifies Anesthesia department concerning scheduled patients.
• Accurately prepares computerized OR schedule for next day’s surgery.
• Prints preference lists and pick tickets two days ahead of surgery schedule.
• Notifies Sterile Processing of all added cases and the correct charge ticket/pick list number.
• Runs reports to support system accuracy and department.
• Sets up and releases blocks appropriately.

Performs other related work as required or requested.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.