Answering the main phone line all day and being the point person to answer any questions or transferring to the correct person.

§  Run the shift change from night to day shift and day to night shift. Write out the nurse’s schedule given by the charge nurse and make the copies. Updating the boards on each of the rooms and making sure all the nurse’s stations and departments have an accurate calendar for the day. Collect all phones and pagers and get them set up with new batteries and assign them to the appropriate nurse.
§  In charge of the tube system for any medications being tubed to our floor and placing them in the medication room or hand over to the appropriate nurse.  
§  Answering all requests from the rooms from our call light from patients and/or families and page appropriate nurse or assist with bringing food/supplies to the room.  
§  Admit patients in EPIC and create the charts / Also breakdown of charts for discharges  
§  Also, part of running the nurse’s station includes calling appropriate people for broken or missing devices, filling out work orders, calling maintenance for anything needing to get fixed on the unit.   

Answering all questions from doctors or nurses that come up throughout the day and assisting with helping staff which could include Maintenance Department, Distribution Department, and housekeeping Department or throughout the unit and assisting families walking up to the front desk with any questions or concerns.