Nursing Communications Tech - Oncology - 12-Hour - Full Time - Days
California, MO (On-site)
Posted 3 months ago
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Job Description
Make a difference every single day at Cedars-Sinai!
When the work you do every day has an influential impact on the lives of others, every effort, detail, and second matters!
Why work here?
The shared value of happiness, drive and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our fifth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of dedicated healthcare professionals to using advanced facilities, you’ll have everything you'll need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others. Join us and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals.
What will you be doing in this role?
As a Nursing Communications Technician (NCT), you will coordinate the administrative functions for the inpatient nursing department, or major unit. Working in collaboration with other departments to maintain adequate supplies and tracks status of equipment repairs.
- Greets all visitors and assumes responsibility for responding to customer requests.
- Respond to simple requests upon checking with the RN like passing water, situating or ensuring that the phone is within reach, assist with getting blankets, and other similar activities.
- Performs all clerical/administrative functions vital to process and maintain medical records. Responsible for assisting with inventory control of operational and unit specific forms, medical record forms, and office supplies
- Enters patient information into the call light system and assigns locators and pagers, and routes requests to staff
- Demonstrates effective communication and customer service skills with patients, family members, physicians, and other medical center departments
- Responsible for greeting and orienting new staff to be a resource, especially to new RNs and staff floating from other department
- Performs a broad range of administrative activities or tasks specific to the unit needs
- Acts as a receptionist for the unit, answering and relaying calls, accepting and relaying other communications
Cedars-Sinai
Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service.Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely.Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
