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Requisition Number: SJ-8840 Job Title: Health Unit Coordinator

Site Overview:
St Joseph's Hospital - St. Joseph's Hospital, of downtown St. Paul, was also named a Solucient Top 100 hospital. Providing the latest technology and having outstanding recovery rates, the staff takes a team approach to providing quality and compassionate patient care. Specialties include services at the National Brain Aneurysm Center, Heart Care, and treating inoperable tumors with the revolutionary technology of the CyberKnife®. St. Joseph's recently completed an $85 million expansion that features some of the most sophisticated technology available.

Department Overview:
PCU 4000/4T

Work Location:
St. Joseph's Hospital Contract: Non-contract

Job Category:
Clerical/Office-Medical Specific Area of Interest:

City:
St Paul

Shift:
Day / Evening Rotation
Authorized Hours - Minimum Per Two Weeks: 56
Authorized Hours - Maximum Per Two Weeks:

Work Hours:
Work Hours/Schedule (For Example: 7:00am-3:30pm or Every other weekend) Variable schedule and does involve an every other weekend rotation

Primary Function & Major Responsibilities Creates an atmosphere of hospitality on the unit and contributes to efficient unit operation by carrying out all unit/clerical and receptionist activities, and transcribing physician orders Demonstrates commitment to the universal guiding principles of the patient care model in order to achieve the HealthEast Nursing Vision. Prioritizes and transcribes written doctor's orders under the supervision of the RN. Maintains the patient medical record in appropriate functional order as indicated in hospital and unit policy. Participates in activities that contribute to daily unit function. Communicates accurately and effectively with patient, family and members of the interdependent team. Complies with regulatory requirements, patient safety requirements, infection control practices, and other established practice standards, policies and procedures. Participates in the development and achievement of unit goals (i.e. safety, cost, quality, satisfaction, engagement). Achieves customer service excellence by understanding the needs of all customers (i.e. patients, families, and physicians). Understands the security requirements of medications and IV solutions.

Qualifications
Education:
Completion of hospital or vocational training in transcription/processing of physician orders.

Experience:
One year of transcribing experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Health Unit Coordinatorinator certification preferred.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Excellent communication and organizational skills. Knowledge of basic medical terminology. Basic computer skills. Is competent to perform skills outlined on the competency checklist. Regular/Temporary

Status: Regular

If Temporary, Start Date:

If Temporary, End Date:

Position Status: Part Time Employee

Referral Bonus Eligible: No

Sign-On Bonus: No

Nearest Major Market: Minneapolis
Job Segments: Customer Service, Customer Service Representative, Healthcare, Infection Control, Law, Legal, Medical, Part Time, Patient Care, Service

Membership Opportunity:  Global Health Council

Colleagues,

Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School is pleased to be an organizational member of the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Our membership enables you to become an associate member of the Global Health Council at no charge. This free membership provides you with a number of benefits which are outlined here.  By signing up you will be able to keep tabs on the latest events and news in global health.

Add your voice to support improved global health. Sign up is quick and easy, so join today.

To Enroll
Go to: https://my.globalhealth.org and select First Visit.
Important: Please be sure to select Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School in the company drop down menu to ensure you receive the complimentary membership.

Important: After you have provided basic information, you need to click on “Sign up for Individual Membership”.  This will take you to a page which reviews your details; on the bottom of this page be sure to select the button “Activate Free Associate Membership”.

You also are entitled to receive 50% off a print subscription to the magazine Global Health. This can be found at: http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/subscribe/.

Questions? Contact the Global Health Council at membership@globalhealth.org

Job Opportunity:  Brown University Population Studies and Training Center

Assistant Director

Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC), Brown University

This position provides high-level support to the research and training missions of the PSTC; works closely with the Director to ensure the efficient operation of all of PSTC’s core functions; provides lead support to the Associate Director’s responsibilities in the training program; contributes to long-term planning and developing the vision for the Center, both internally for Brown and externally to the research community; provides project management, PSTC representation, and coordination of ongoing externally-funded research and capacity-building activities across diverse international settings; develops dissemination plans for research results and PSTC activities within and beyond Brown, and supervises staff in the production of relevant materials; provides content for institutional and individual grant applications, donor and agency reports, and the PSTC website.  Overall, this position aids the Director and Associate Director in meeting the goals and objectives of the PSTC, a dynamic interdepartmental and interdisciplinary center, which coordinates research and training programs involving the activities of nearly 40 faculty and over 50 graduate students with a substantial annual operating budget and external award portfolio.

Job Requirements:

¨       Advanced degree in related field (e.g., social science or MPH) and at least 5 years experience in a diverse academic research setting highly preferred

¨       Strong interpersonal skills for dealing with many different people from diverse cultural and personal backgrounds; enthusiasm for participation in research and scholarly activities across a variety of geographic and cultural settings

¨       Superior writing skills

¨       Ability to handle a large variety of tasks under pressure and to set priorities

To apply, visit us online at http://careers.brown.edu and reference job number F01314.

Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Unite for Sight Conference:  First Abstract Deadline August 15

GH/Innovate 2011

Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite For Sight, 8th Annual ConferenceYale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 16 – Sunday, April 17, 2011

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

“A Meeting of Minds”–CNN

Unite For Sight’s must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  The conference convenes 2,200 people from all 50 states and from 50 countries.

Conference registration is now open. Register during July to secure the lowest registration rate. The registration rate increases after July.

Interested in presenting at the conference? We have two types of presentation opportunities.

• Call For Abstracts: Do you have an abstract for oral or poster presentation?  Submit your abstract for presentation.  The first abstract deadline is August 15, 2010.  Complete details are on the conference website.
• Call For Social Enterprise Pitches: Do you have an innovative idea or a new program in development?  Submit your idea for presentation.  Social enterprise pitches are accepted on a rolling application deadline, and the first quality pitches will be accepted for oral presentation.  When the social enterprise pitch spots are filled to capacity, applications will no longer be accepted.  See social enterprise pitch instructions on the conference website.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

More keynote speakers to be announced

200 Featured Speakers, including these confirmed speakers:

“How Do You Know When You’ve Revolutionized An Industry?: Ashoka’s Approach to Assessing Impact,” Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurs: Systems Thinking in Action,” Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

“Design Education in the Humanitarian Sphere: Designmatters Best Practices,” Mariana Amatullo, Vice President, Director, Designmatters Department, Art Center College of Design

“Readying Orphans For Their Community: Models For Taking Orphans Out Of Isolation,” Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University

“Doctors as Storytellers: Using Our Stories For Social Change,” Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

“Workshop – New Media For Global Health,” Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

“Investing in Adolescent Girls — The Transition to Adulthood,” Wendy Baldwin, Vice President, Poverty, Gender and Youth, Population Council

“Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS, Music, and Health in Uganda,” Gregory Barz, PhD, Ethnomusicologist, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

“High-Impact Social Entrepreneurship” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurship,” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

Alan Bernstein, PhD, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Matthew Berg, ICT Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project

Ron Bills, Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International

“Asking The Right Questions: Lessons Learned From The Cuban Health System,” Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George’s University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

“Workshop – Improving Organizational Performance in Low-Income Settings,” Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health

“Doctors With Borders,” Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center

P. Sean Brotherton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

“Orchestration of the Host Immune Response by Malaria Parasites,” Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

“Innovations and Technologies for Resource Constrained Settings: Opportunities and Strategies,” Thomas F. Burke, MD, Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, KCA University and Victoria Institute for Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya

“Maternal Health and Societal Development,” Sharon Camp, President and CEO, Guttmacher Institute

“Strategies to Prevent Maternal Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Partners in Health

“Challenges and Opportunities For Improving Health Care Systems,” Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine

“Randomized Trials in Malaria: Questions, Answers and More Questions,” Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Josh Cohen, Managing Partner, City Light Capital

“Proof of Sustainable Eye Care Systems in Africa, The Only Way To V2020,” Kate Coleman, BSc, PhD, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Executive Chairman, Right To Sight

Daryl Collins, Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates

Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group

“Fail Early, Launch Well: Why Getting it Going is More Important Than Getting It Right (At Least At First),” Cindy Cooper, Director, Social Innovation Incubator, School of Business Administration, Portland State University

Scott Corlew, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast

“The Evolution of Development and Urgent Need for a Genetic Jump,” Mark Dybul, Co-Director Global Health Law Program; Distinguished Visiting Scholars, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN

“Designing Social Impact,” Heather Fleming, Catapult Design

“Technologies for Rural Health,” Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

“Pediatric Vision Screening in Western Hunan Province,” Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

“Collaborative Development of Open Source Medical Record Systems in Developing Countries: The OpenMRS Experience,” Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund

“Rewards for Green Behavior,” Ron Gonen, Founder and CEO, Recycle Bank

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

“Clean Off-Grid Lighting,” Gaurav Gupta, Partner, Dalberg and Founder, The Climate Project, India

“Wireless Adherence Monitoring Technology,” Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School

“The Effect of Cooking Stoves on Health: Evidence From A Randomized Experiment in India,” Rema Hanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

“Authentic Corporate Engagement in Global Health,” Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors

“Not Everyone Cares: Marketing Your Cause in a Cluttered Marketplace,” Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

“Workshop – Breaking Thru The Clutter: How to Market Your Cause and Attract New Champions,” Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

“Global Health Education: Policies, Practices, and Innovations in Organizations and Systems,” Brian Heuser, M.T.S., Ed.D., Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations; Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

“Proceedings From The African Glaucoma Summit,” Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

“Workshop – Starting a Nonprofit: Myths and Realities,” Maurice Segall and Rick Hobish, JD, Pro Bono Partnership

“Global Health: Leadership, Not Money,” Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI

“Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases,” Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Distinguished Research Pressor and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

Paul Hudnut, Global Social & Sustainable Enterprise Program, College of Business-Colorado State University; Founder and Director, Envirofit International

“Global Infertility and the Millennial Challenge of Reproductive ‘Tourism,’” Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Chair, Council on Middle East Studies

Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi

“IQSolutions, Using Health Informatics to Make Informed Decisions,” Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group

“Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger,” Tony Kalm, Director, One Acre Fund

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mehmood Khan, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo

“Ecological Sanitation in Emergencies: Turning Wastes into Resources in Post-Earthquake Haiti,” Sasha Kramer, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)

“The Road To Hell: The Ethics of Global Health Response,” Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, Professor & Chief, Section of International Emergency Medicine & Global Health, Yale School of Medicine

“How To Create a Social Venture,” Moses Lee, Managing Editor, NextBillion.net; Entrepreneurship Academic Program Manager and Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan

“Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business,” Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

“Building Widespread Political Support for Newborn, Child and Maternal Health,” Charles MacCormack, CEO, Save The Children

“Agriculture, The Other Health Intervention,” Bonnie McClafferty, Head, Development & Communications, HarvestPlus

John McGoldrick, JD, Chairman, Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Special Advisor, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

“Collective Rights to HIV Prevention: Human Rights for the Public’s Health,” Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“Workshop – The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“The Talent Gap: A Leadership Opportunity,” Blair Miller, Talent Manager, Acumen Fund

“Architecture for the Underserved,” Michael Murphy, MASS Group

“Clean Energy — A Key to Health and Development,” Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO

Moses Musaazi, PhD, Professor and Former Head, Electrical Engineering Department, Makerere University; Founder and Managing Director of Technology for Tomorrow; Developer of Makapad

“Photonics Based Telemedicine Technologies Toward Smart Global Health Systems,” Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NanoSystems Institute, UCLA

“Disability in the Developing World–Is There a Solution?” Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-US

Momar Ndao, DVM, MSc, PhD, Director, National Reference Centre for Parasitology; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Julia Novy-Hildesley, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation

“Electronic Medical Records: On Becoming a Digital Doctor,” Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund, Global Grassroots Manager

“Building Successful Public Private Partnerships in Global Health: A Private Sector Perspective From The Malaria Community,” Steven Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

“Workshop – Design Global Change,” Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, University of Hartford

“Empowering Women to Have The Children They Want Safely,” Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG, Bixby Professor, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley

“Project Firefly: Next-Generation Infant Phototherapy for Developing Countries,” Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design That Matters

“Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile States – What Do We Know? Examples From MSH Work,” Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Management Sciences For Health

“How Can The Global Health Community Leverage Data Online for Decisions and Impact?” Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

“Bioethical Considerations in Surgical Volunteerism,” Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

“Microbicides for HIV Prevention: New Science, New Hope,” Zeda Rosenberg, CEO, International Partnership for Microbicides

Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health

“YOUTH ZONES: A Film and Poetry Initiative on Young People from Conflicts and Natural Disasters,” Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, USAID

Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President and Medical Director of JHPIEGO

Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners

“WE CARE Solar – Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care,” Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar

“Reducing Maternal Mortality: Designing Programs for Success in Developing Countries,” Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID Senior Maternal Health Advisor

Evan A. Thomas, PhD, P.E., Executive Vice President, Manna Energy Limited

“Patient Adherence to Glaucoma Medications: Current Concepts,” James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

“Global HIV Prevention,” Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

“Hearing The Unheard Cry: Strategies to Save Newborn Lives at Scale,” Steve Wall, Senior Newborn Health Research Advisor, Save The Children

“WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor,” Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org

“Design Thinking For Social Innovation,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Workshop – Design Thinking,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Narrowing The Gap Between Evidence and Action in Global Health,” Gavin Yamey, MD, MA, MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group

“ECOfashion: An ECOpreneur’s Journey to Transform the Global Textile Industry,” Marci Zaroff, Founder and CEO, FASE; Founder, Under the Canopy

The conference will include more than 200 speakers. More speakers to be announced.

SAVE THE DATE!  September 9-11, 2010:  AAFP Family Medicine Global Health Workshop (Hotel Deadline August 19)

7th AAFP Family Medicine Global Health Workshop
Building Capacity to Improve Health for All
www.aafp.org/intl/workshop

September 9-11, 2010
Hyatt Regency Coral Gables
Coral Gables, Florida

Connect with people, projects and places at the 7th AAFP Family Medicine Global Health Workshop. Choose from more than 45 presentations. Share your experience during interactive Q&A sessions, panel discussions and workshop special events.

You will meet with faculty, physicians and other health professionals and learn how

·        to explore options for global health involvement,

·        to develop and sustain international partnerships,

·        to provide health care and medical education in the context of scarce resources and

·        to increase the impact of global health rotations on students’ and residents’ professional development

Special Guest Speakers

Donna E. Shalala, PhD
President, University of Miami

Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Registration and Hotel Information:
Registration is available online – www.aafp.org/intl/workshop or call 1-800 – 272-2237.
Hotel deadline is August 19.

Questions? Contact Rebecca Janssen, AAFP International Activities Senior Program Coordinator, at rjanssen@aafp.org.

SAVE THE DATE!  September 20-21, 2010:  CUGH Conference