Hospital Clerk Resume
Hospital clerks work in any one specific unit or ward of a hospital depending on their experience and skills. They are also called health unit clerks and may work for admitting and discharging patients, registering patients at emergency unit, or can be a clerk of the hospital's pharmacy store. The job description thus, may differ according to the unit they are employed in. However, handling administrative functions and assisting in patient care will be common with all the wards.
Hospital Clerk Resume Example
Joseph G. Helvey
12 Cecil Street
Schaumburg, IL 60173
Phone: 312-231-0752
Email: jghelvey@freemail.com
Career Objective:
To obtain a hospital clerk position with “Apache Hospital” and handle patients' registration, admittance, transfer, and discharge functions.
Summary of Skills:
- Strong experience of healthcare setting
- Skilled in recording medical history, processing registration, transfer, and discharge of patients
- Possess high patience, dependability, and courteous qualities
- Familiarity with medical terminology and software applications used by healthcare industry
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent listening, critical thinking, organizational, and time management skills
Work Experience:
Hospital Clerk
Healing Minds Hospital, Schaumburg, IL
October 2013 - Present
- Greeting patients, collecting and entering medical history, taking printouts and submitting them to physicians
- Answering telephone calls for inquiries about treatment and facilities provided by the hospital
- Following standard operating procedures for performing clerical duties
- Collecting and filing lab reports in respective patient's file and also entering in the system
- Ordering clerical supplies to vendor and submitting invoices to the account department
- Referring checklist and entering daily charges in patient's file
- Registering patients and completing admitting procedures for patients
Hospital Clerk
Smithford Hospital, Schaumburg, IL
March 2012 - September 2013
- Received and directed patients to respective cabins after noting their visit purpose
- Transferred and discharged patients as instructed by physicians and updated records
- Guided patients on follow ups and sent reminders to them in advance
- Maintained complete and correct admission, transfer, and discharge logs, and shifted reports accordingly
- Resolved complaints of patients regarding food, changing of linens, etc. with the help of manager
- Completed and sent discharge notes to respective wards and accounts department
- Stored important files and disposed off obsolete files after confirming with senior officials
Education:
- High School Diploma
Glory High School, Schaumburg, IL
2010
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Certification in Medical Terminology
ABC Technical Institute, Schaumburg, IL
2011
Reference:
On request.
