Ward Clerk Full-Time

Garden City Healthcare Center is looking for a highly motivated Ward Clerk to join our amazing team!

Because your talent is focused on serving patients, residents, and families with exemplary compassion and care, we are committed to providing you with a premiere healthcare community, where together we can transform the future of healthcare.

We have full-time and Part-time! Please reach out if you want to be a part of an amazing team!

What makes Garden City HealthCare Center a great place to work?!


* Amazing Benefits!


* Career stability with a culture of fun


* Immediate availability


* New-grads welcome


* Referral Program


* Supportive Team


* Competitive Rates


* Educational and Career Development

Join us at Garden City Healthcare Center and become part of the family who wonderfully enriches the lives of everyone we touch!

General Purpose The primary purpose of your job position is to assist the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse in their day-to-day recording and charting of medical or administrative information in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern medical records, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing Services, to ensure that our medical records are maintained in an informative and descriptive manner.

Essential Duties


* Record medical and administrative information in accordance with our established charting and documentation policies and procedures



* Maintain the Daily Census Report and submit to Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.

• Maintain an up-to-date roster of residents for your assigned unit.



* Fill out resident charge slips and submit to the Business Office.



* Answer telephone, page calls, deliver messages to residents, etc., as necessary.



* Maintain a current listing of emergency phone numbers for your assigned unit.

• Maintain and forward daily tardy and absentee reports to the Business Office



* Record appropriate resident identification data on designated medical records, wristbands, ID cards, etc., as required.



* Transcribe physicians' orders to care plans, medication cards, treatment plans, etc., as required.



* Report to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse discrepancies found in transcribing physicians' orders, diet orders/changes, charting, etc.



* Review medication cards for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician's order, legibility, etc., as directed.



* Chart nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided as well as the resident's response to the care.



* Forward new diet orders and/or diet changes to the Director of Food Services.



* Notify the resident's next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident's condition as instructed.



* Admit, transfer, and discharge residents.

Assist in arranging for transportation, packing residents' belongings, escorting them to dis...