Nursing Service Clerk

Job description

Overview
The Nursing Service Clerk is responsible for performing general clerical duties by preparing, compiling, and maintaining records.
Responsibilities
• Receives newly admitted patients and prepares identification tags and assembles patients' records.
• Notifies physician of new admissions and consultations.
• Assists in keeping the vital summary sheet up to date by recording temperature, pulse, respirations, weight, diet, activity, and other required patient information.
• Transcribes orders from physicians' order sheets to patients' charts and prepares cards, tickets, and related documents.
• Prepares requests and schedules procedures.
• Answers patient call systems and telephones and receives and delivers messages for supplies, patients, physicians, and other departments.
• Checks patients' charts for completeness at the time of discharge.
• Disassembles patient records and prepares them for return to Medical Records.
• Files completed request slips when returned from Laboratory, Radiology, and other departments.
• Prepares requisitions to maintain established inventories of clerical supplies.
• Maintains the nursing station in a clean, safe, and orderly manner.
• Types and prepares reports as directed.
• Maintains patient registers and schedules procedures to be performed by other services.
• Greets, assists, and directs visitors in a courteous manner.
• Operates various office equipment.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Education
• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent.

Experience
• Preferably one year's experience in billing experience and experience in Microsoft Word & Excel.
• Health care billing experience preferred.
• Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training as required to attain proficiency of performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
• Must have knowledge of medical terminology, ICD9 and CPT codes as pertains to billing.
• Must be familiar with UB92 and HCFA competition.
• Must be computer literate in Word and Excel.
• Ability to operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and fax machine.
• Ability to type a minimum of 30 words per minute accurately.

Physical Requirements
• Must possess physical abilities to endure prolonged sitting, moderate walking and standing, bending, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling.
• Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.