Job Description

Supplemental Information

This vacancy is located within the Nursing Department at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson, LA (East Feliciana Parish). ELMHS is the largest 24-hour, multi-site, state psychiatric complex, comprised of residential, outpatient and inpatient services.

*This posting may be used to fill vacancies in other divisions or units at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System within 90 days of closing.

This position may be filled as either a Probational or Job Appointment (open to all qualified applicants); a promotion (open to all statewide classified and Agency wide permanent status employees); or by Detail to Special Duty. Current permanent status, classified employees may be required to accept a Probational appointed if selected. If filled as a Job Appointment, there is a possibility that this position may be converted to a Probational Appointment should funding become available.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of work experience. An application may be considered incomplete if the work experience and education sections are not completed.

Salary is negotiable based on experience.

Please list all work experience and describe your duties as you will not be qualified on job titles alone.

Applicants qualifying based on college training or receipt of a baccalaureate degree will be required to submit an official college transcript to verify credentials claimed prior to appointment. Please make every effort to attach a copy of your transcript to your application. The transcripts can be added as an attachment to your online application or faxed to (225) 219-1041. The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire.

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

For further information about this vacancy, please contact:

Yevette McArthur
LDH-ELMHS Human Resources
Jackson, La. 70748
225-634-0571
yevette.mcarthur@la.gov

Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected. However, there is no guarantee that everybody that applies to this posting will be interviewed.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Two years of clerical experience in a patient care setting such as a medical clinic, hospital, mental health facility, facility for the developmentally disabled, or other type of healthcare facility.

SUBSTITUTIONS:

Experience as a nursing assistant will substitute for the required experience on the basis of two years of nursing assistant experience for one year of the required experience.

A certificate of completion from a medical assistant training program earned at a college or technical institute accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools will substitute for one year of the required experience.

An associate degree from a medical assistant training program earned at a college or technical institute accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools will substitute for the two years of required experience.

College training with nine semester hours in education, psychology, counseling, social work, sociology, child guidance, or nursing will substitute for the required experience on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of the required experience.

NOTE:

Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.

Job Concepts

Function of Work:
To perform sub-professional clinical/training and administrative support functions in a health care delivery setting.

Level of Work:
Experienced.

Supervision Received:
General from a Physician, Registered Nurse, Practical Nurse--Licensed, or administrative personnel.

Supervision Exercised:
May exercise functional supervision over lower level personnel.

Location of Work:
Health-care facilities, statewide.

Job Distinctions:
Differs from Nursing Assistant 1 and 2 by the presence of responsibility for clerical duties in addition to sub-professional nursing duties.

Differs from Medical Specialist by the presence of responsibility for clerical duties and the absence of responsibility for performance of specialized procedures in the care of orthopedic, urology, ophthalmology, and/or speech pathology/audiology patients.

Examples of Work

Answers the telephone, greets patients, updates and files patient medical records, fills out insurance forms, handles correspondence, schedules appointments, arranges for hospital admission and laboratory services, and handles billing and bookkeeping.

Abstracts, reviews, and enters patient registration data into patient database.

Verifies patients third party coverage; may speak with third party.

May compile employee time records; reviews time sheets for completeness.

Prepares patients for routine examinations, which includes obtaining, assessing, and recording vital signs. May take medical histories.

Assists practitioners to deliver health care services, treatments, examinations, and procedures for patients.

Performs EKGs, collects samples of blood and urine, and performs vision and audio testing.

Ensures health care delivery areas are fully stocked, organized, clean, and disinfected. Orders supplies, as needed.

Assist with cleaning and sterilization of equipment.

Assists in management of patient behavior utilizing therapeutic intervention techniques; restrains hostile and physically violent patients when necessary.

Provides constant visual monitoring and intensive care for extremely suicidal, combative, or disturbed patients to assure safety and well-being of the patients; documents appropriately.

May involve shift work.

Instructs employees (regular or medical related personnel), in general and/or specialized training courses in resuscitation and life support techniques and procedures, i.e., Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (BCLS and ACLS).

May administer and grade tests.

Maintain records of employees\' participation on training program. Issues appropriate certifications.

Maintains equipment (interactive computer systems, monitors, manikins, etc.) through minor repairs and proper sanitation procedures.

Orders materials and supplies.

Attends continuing education programs and re-certifies credentials as required.

May monitor telemetry monitors and notify nurse for designated arrhymias. May place telemetry leads.

May maintain patient records as per policy.

May collect and deposit funds into appropriate accounts. May maintain records of funds received.

May compile complex monthly reports.

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