Job Description
Job Overview:
The Medical Scribe provides Emergency and Hospitalist Medicine Department clinicians with documentation assistance and follow-up on diagnostics/consults/orders, etc. This assistance is crucial in providing clinicians additional time to directly speak to and consult with patients. This is a great opportunity for entry level healthcare professionals to build on medical knowledge and gain invaluable clinical exposure in working alongside numerous MDs, NPs, and PAs.
Qualifications:
Required:
- High School Diploma
- Completion of science or clinical coursework at the undergraduate level or above required. Work experience in a direct patient care clinical setting may be considered in lieu of science or clinical coursework.
- Work, volunteer, or shadowing experience in the healthcare field required. Experience in a direct patient care environment preferred (e.g. medical scribe, patient care technician, medical assistant, EMT). Must be documented on resume.
Preferred:
- Bachelor's degree
- Superb listening, verbal and written communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, stressful environment
- Ability to type 50 words per minute adjusted for errors
Scheduling Requirements:
- Hiring for both Part Time Day Shifts and Part Time Night Shifts
- Day shift start times vary between the hours of 6:00am-6:00pm and the Medical Scribe would be expected to rotate through each scheduled start time in between those hours
- Night Shift start times vary between the hours of 7:00pm-10:00pm and the Medical Scribe would be expected to rotate through each scheduled start time in between those hours
- Shifts are 7 days a week
- Employee will rotate through all day OR all night shifts
- Part Time positions will guarantee one shift per week, minimum 12 hours.
Essential Functions:
- Accompany clinicians into patient rooms and transcribe clinician dictations/notes
- Actively listen to all conversations pertaining to patient care between the clinician and other healthcare providers, patients, family, etc. and document relevant information into the EMR
- Document clinician and patient encounters into EMR
- Seek out missing information from clinicians to complete the physician chart
- Gather and input pertinent patient information from external sources (e.g. outpatient lab tests, nursing home/EMS records)
- Place phone calls to PMD offices, pharmacies, etc. as requested by the clinician
- Keep clinicians informed of resulting diagnostics and troubleshoot delays in those results
Additional Information:
- Benefits and Perks: At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees' physical, emotional, social, and financial health.
- Pay Range: The pay rate offered for this position is $17.6674/hour
Let’s shape the future of healthcare, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Tags
Part time, Work experience placement, Shift work, Night shift, Day shift, All shifts,