Northern Arizona Healthcare

General

• Provides comprehensive respiratory care services to patients across all age groups and acuity levels
• Assesses, treats, and manages patients with acute and chronic cardiopulmonary disorders
• Performs advanced respiratory procedures, including mechanical ventilation management, arterial blood gas analysis, airway management, and advanced ventilation modes
• Ensures VAP protocol compliance
• Operates nitric oxide delivery systems
• Completes billing paperwork and accurate clinical documentation in the EMR
• Performs lead responsibilities in the absence of the lead Respiratory Therapist
• Coordinates daily staffing assignments and workflow distribution
• Resolves operational issues and staff concerns during assigned shifts
• Serves as primary contact for interdisciplinary teams and hospital administration
• Makes decisions regarding resource allocation and patient prioritization
• Develops, implements, evaluates, and documents competency assessments
• Conducts hands-on competency validation and provides targeted education and remediation
• Orients, trains, mentors, and provides clinical guidance to respiratory therapists
• Develops individualized learning plans and collaborates with education staff on orientation programs
• Participates in quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives
• Conducts chart audits and analyzes clinical practice patterns and outcomes
• Identifies process improvement opportunities and develops corrective action plans with leadership
• Assembles, operates, maintains, troubleshoots, cleans, and performs minor repairs on respiratory equipment
• Educates patients on therapies and prescribed medications before discharge and documents understanding
• Reports safety incidents, attends safety training, follows regulatory and organizational standards, and completes required training modules

Senior Respiratory Care Practitioner, RRT

Pharmacist

• Provide inpatient pharmacy services on nights, working a 7-days-on/7-days-off schedule
• Rotate through central dispensing and decentralized clinical areas
• Perform clinical services to optimize drug therapy and document clinical interventions
• Provide medication therapy management, including pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, serum creatinine, and therapeutic drug monitoring
• Advise physicians on formulary medications and alternative therapeutic options
• Provide drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals
• Participate in code arrest response and ensure medication availability
• Identify, prevent, and investigate adverse drug reactions and medication errors
• Provide drug-related patient counseling information
• Review and interpret physician orders for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, and contraindications
• Contact nursing personnel and prescribers regarding questions on drug orders
• Dispense and label oral medications and IV solutions
• Use electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube systems, and clinical decision support/data mining tools
• Process patient charges and credits
• Assist with maintaining drug supplies and verifying physical inventory
• Manage controlled-substance legal and professional controls, including documenting waste
• Supervise and oversee licensed and non-licensed supportive personnel
• Report adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and good catches
• Assist with training new pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• Follow regulatory, organizational, hospital, departmental, safety, and patient-care policies
• Report safety incidents and participate in safety-related training
• Participate in quality improvement and clinical projects as an active member of the patient care team

Inpatient Pharmacist

Assistant

• Collaborate with nutrition staff and hospital staff to provide care and wellness to patients, staff, and visitors
• Prepare, cook, and serve food using menus, recipes, production sheets, tally sheets, cooking equipment, and safe food handling techniques
• Ensure food production quality and compliance with recipes, procedures, NAH policies, CMS requirements, county requirements, and other regulations
• Access patient diet lists and the electronic diet office system
• Prepare food for patient and café lines
• Assist in the dish room
• Check patient trays for diet modifications and accuracy
• Prepare and deliver patient trays, nourishments, and snacks
• Serve food at the presentation station
• Operate cash registers during lunch periods and as scheduled
• Fill, deliver, record CaterTrax billing, and stock food and supplies on nursing units and departments
• Prepare Grab and Go items and maintain par levels for patient tray lines and café
• Substitute as a barista when needed
• Work across several kitchen areas, including the café, coffee shop, and gift shop
• Stock vending machines and sort supplies for patient pantry units
• Follow cleaning, sanitization, infection-control, and HACCP procedures
• Report safety incidents through the Midas/RDE tool and attend safety training
• Maintain current required certifications and complete mandatory training

Nutrition Assistant

• Collaborate with nutrition staff and hospital staff to provide optimal care and wellness to patients, staff, and visitors
• Prepare, cook, and serve food for patients, visitors, and staff using menus, recipes, production sheets, tally sheets, cooking equipment, and safe food-handling techniques
• Ensure food production is high quality and complies with specified recipes, procedures, CMS, County, and other applicable regulations
• Access patient diet lists and electronic diet office systems
• Prepare food for patient and café lines
• Assist in the dish room and clean service ware
• Check patient trays for diet modifications and accuracy
• Prepare and deliver patient trays, nourishments, and snacks
• Serve food at the Presentation station
• Work as a cashier during lunch periods and as scheduled
• Fill, deliver, record in Catertrax billing, and stock food and supplies on nursing units and departments
• Prepare Grab and Go items and maintain par levels for patient tray lines and café
• Substitute as a barista for PTO and call-off needs
• Cross-train in several kitchen areas
• Work as a cashier at the café, coffee shop, or Gift shop
• Stock and fill vending machines across campus
• Sort supplies for patient pantry units
• Follow HACCP, master cleaning guidelines, infection precautions, and workstation sanitization procedures
• Report safety-related incidents through the Midas/RDE tool and attend safety training
• Participate in training new staff and assisting with staff schedules
• Use the electronic patient menu system and take room-service meal orders in the call center according to dietary guidelines and protocols

Technician

• Prepare supplies and equipment for interventions using appropriate techniques
• Assist with and/or perform patient procedures within unit-specific skills scope
• Assist the healthcare team with pre-, intra-, and post-procedure patient care, including specimen handling
• Process and request provider orders to the RN
• Provide psychological and social support to patients and families
• Transport patients to and from the unit and for discharge
• Observe patients, communicate changes in condition to the RN, and implement directed corrective actions
• Address technical needs related to patient conditions
• Document interventions, patient responses, changes in condition, and patient/family needs in CIS
• Communicate referral needs to the RN
• Manage, troubleshoot, disinfect, sterilize, and arrange repair of equipment and supplies
• Maintain supply inventory
• Report safety incidents through the Midas/RDE tool and attend safety training
• Follow regulatory, organizational, hospital, and departmental patient-care and safety standards
• Complete required training and maintain valid certifications and licenses

Endoscopy Technician

Physician

• Join the employed Hospitalist group at Northern Arizona Healthcare
• Advance the mission of improving health and healing people
• Provide hospitalist care in collaboration with surgeons and other specialties
• Work within hospitalist teams comprising rounding, admitting, and nocturnist teams
• Manage an average census of 16 patients (typically 14–18)
• Work approximately 166 shifts per year after leave and CME, with rounding, admitting, and swing shifts
• Participate in backup assignment approximately 4–5 times per quarter
• Collaborate with extensive subspecialist support and care management services
• Work with Family Medicine residents if desired
• Participate in leadership opportunities if interested
• Provide care without required procedures or mid-level supervision duties

Hospitalist

Nurse Practitioner

• Evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services to patients of all ages with sleep conditions and disorders
• Treat sleep-related breathing disorders, including obstructive and central sleep apnea
• Address circadian rhythm disorders, insomnia, parasomnias, central disorders of hypersomnolence such as narcolepsy, and sleep-related movement disorders
• Work in an ambulatory setting
• Work closely with the Sleep Medicine Physician/Program Director
• Serve patients across Northern Arizona, including the Navajo and Hopi Reservations

Sleep Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant

• Evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services to patients of all ages in an ambulatory setting
• Treat patients presenting with sleep-related breathing disorders, including obstructive and central sleep apnea
• Treat circadian rhythm disorders, insomnia, parasomnias, central disorders of hypersomnolence such as narcolepsy, and sleep-related movement disorders
• Work closely with the Sleep Medicine Physician/Program Director
• Serve patients across Northern Arizona, including the Navajo and Hopi Reservations

• Prepare patients for imaging examinations and assist with imaging procedures under the direction of imaging technologists
• Transport infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elderly patients to and from imaging and other facility areas
• Expedite trauma and critical patients in the imaging department
• Document patient medical data under supervision
• Assist with minor procedures, patient transfers, monitoring, dressing biopsy sites, and other assigned clinical tasks
• Maintain department, equipment, and patient-care-area cleanliness
• Assist with post-procedure exam processing and preparation of patient trays, equipment, and exam rooms
• Deliver specimens to appropriate locations
• Perform EKGs as needed
• Maintain patient confidentiality and follow infection-control and isolation precautions
• Answer, evaluate, and prioritize administrative telephone calls and provide accurate information
• Assist with scheduling, front-desk duties, quality-control data collection, and patient-information review
• Use PACS to burn CDs and fax reports to physicians
• Troubleshoot issues and manage supplies, inventory, outdated supplies, and laundry bins
• Communicate effectively with patients, caregivers, technologists, radiologists, multidisciplinary staff, and non-technical staff
• Report safety incidents, attend safety training, monitor the work environment, and complete required training and compliance activities

Medical Imaging Aide

Patient Care

• Assist with patient care under the supervision of the charge nurse, clinical manager, and/or director
• Maintain unit cleanliness, supplies, organization, and cleanup after treatments
• Assist with patient transfers, mobility, activities of daily living, compression garments, dressing removal, and therapeutic exercises
• Observe skin integrity and report abnormal findings to supervising clinicians
• Assist with catheter and IV removal and phlebotomy within scope of practice
• Prioritize and problem-solve in response to changes in patient condition
• Collaborate with physicians and healthcare professionals to support quality patient care and appropriate staffing
• Assess patient care needs and serve as a resource to other staff
• Assist physicians with EMR order entry as needed
• Support discharge activities, including vehicle transfers, discharge instructions, interdisciplinary collaboration, DME, and EMR documentation
• Answer and prioritize administrative telephone calls and collect accurate caller information
• Assist with orientation and training of new PCT staff
• Maintain unit documents, charts, and chart copies
• Assist the charge nurse with clerical duties
• Document objective patient data, care provided, and reported abnormal findings
• Follow safety, isolation, bloodborne pathogen, and organizational policies
• Report safety incidents, attend required training, and maintain certifications and competencies
• Float/Flex Pool PCTs may work on any hospital unit, change departments during a shift, or work as a Patient Safety Attendant as needed

Patient Care Technician, MICU

Registrar

• Maintain the Trauma Registry and ensure compliance with American College of Surgeons, National Trauma Database, and State of Arizona data standards
• Participate in research and/or statistical activities for the Trauma Program Manager and Trauma Program Director or Medical Director
• Research and solve complex coding problems involving ICD-10-CM, E-Codes, and AIS 2005
• Serve as an expert resource regarding abstracting, coding, departmental procedures, Trauma Registry Software updates, report writing, report generation, and interpretation
• Audit medical coding and trauma registry data for accuracy
• Collect and submit trauma registry data for trauma patients
• Create forms, reports, graphs, and tables
• Perform day-to-day office tasks for Trauma Services
• Report safety-related incidents through the Midas/RDE tool and attend safety training
• Comply with applicable state and federal regulations, statutes, and company policies
• Maintain a safe work environment and complete required training

Trauma Registrar 1

Scheduler

• Schedule surgical, obstetric, endoscopy, emergency and state procedures, including pre-admission testing and related pre- and post-procedural appointments
• Enter and verify surgical and anesthesia service documentation in Cerner Scheduling systems, the encounter database, schedule book and iQueue software
• Coordinate equipment, implants, supplies, personnel and related appointments with involved departments and provider/surgeon offices
• Validate implant documentation against vendor invoices and surgery charges; research discrepancies
• Determine billable procedures and supplies and enter accurate charges
• Audit SurgiNet and anesthesia records and coordinate corrections to ensure accurate, timely claims processing
• Manage inventory and logging/billing of wound vacs throughout the hospital
• Assign accurate CDMs using clinical documentation, anatomy and physiology knowledge, and medical terminology
• Review records for completeness, accuracy and regulatory compliance
• Prepare management and clinical team reports and provide confidential administrative support
• Gather, revise and enter departmental statistics and other data
• Perform clerical duties including ordering, keyboarding, scanning, filing, photocopying and transcribing
• Coordinate with Surgical Services, Anesthesia, Pathology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Cath Lab, medical clinics and external vendors
• Greet customers, answer and prioritize administrative calls, retrieve computerized information and respond to inquiries
• Maintain department communication boards, communication devices and document control files
• Report safety incidents, attend safety training and comply with applicable regulations, statutes and company policies

Surgical Department Scheduler, Assistant

• Prepare supplies, instruments, sutures, and equipment for surgical interventions
• Provide technical services and assist with or perform patient procedures within unit-specific competencies
• Assist the healthcare team during surgical procedures using knowledge of anatomy and physiology
• Provide safe intraoperative patient care, including specimen handling and medication labeling and handling
• Anticipate surgeon and patient needs during procedures
• Maintain, monitor, restock, and appropriately open surgical equipment and supplies
• Process and communicate provider preferences to the RN
• Facilitate efficient operating-room turnovers
• Assist with updating physician preference cards
• Participate in training and education of new employees and staff on aseptic techniques and processes
• Maintain accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses
• Report safety incidents and monitor the work environment for safety issues

Scrub Technician

• Prepare supplies, instruments, sutures, and equipment for surgical procedures
• Assist the healthcare team during surgical procedures using knowledge of anatomy and physiology
• Provide safe intra-operative patient care, including specimen handling and medication labeling and handling
• Anticipate the sequence of events and the needs of surgeons and patients
• Maintain, monitor, restock, and appropriately open surgical equipment and supplies
• Accurately process and communicate provider preferences to the RN
• Facilitate efficient operating-room turnovers
• Assist with updating physician preference cards
• Participate in training and education of new employees and staff on aseptic techniques and processes
• Follow regulatory, organizational, hospital, and departmental patient-care and safety standards
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation in the EMR and report safety incidents through the Midas/RDE tool

• Coordinate care for patients and their families
• Provide direct patient care, patient and family education, and discharge planning
• Assess patients' needs and conditions by gathering relevant health information
• Identify outcomes, develop individualized care plans, and implement interventions
• Evaluate patient progress and revise diagnoses, outcomes, and care plans as needed
• Provide safe, high-quality, patient-centered care
• Perform aseptic techniques and maintain infection prevention standards
• Collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals
• Assist with procedures and patient transportation throughout the hospital
• Participate in evidence-based practice, research, in-service education, and educational seminars
• Mentor and educate colleagues and students
• Provide leadership to ancillary personnel as team leader and preceptor
• Maintain accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses
• Report safety incidents and monitor the work environment for safety issues
• Practice in a safe, high-quality, and cost-effective manner

Senior Respiratory Care Practitioner, RRT

Inpatient Pharmacist

Nutrition Assistant

Nutrition Assistant

Endoscopy Technician

Hospitalist

Sleep Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant

Sleep Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant

Medical Imaging Aide

Patient Care Technician, MICU

Trauma Registrar 1

Surgical Department Scheduler, Assistant

Scrub Technician

Scrub Technician

RN, Emergency Department – New to Specialty