Responsibilities include organizing the patient medical record, filing documents in a patient record, facilitating communication among staff, relaying messages/information to staff members, facilitating bed management and patient throughput, performing necessary functions to process direct admissions to the unit, acting as a receptionist for visitors to the units and also as a business partner to the department and clinical staff, orienting patients and families to the unit, answering routine questions, multitasking, observing cardiac monitors, identifying and reporting irregular rhythms to a registered nurse for intervention, recording ECG monitor strips and ensuring maintenance of all monitoring equipment. 4) Communication: provides report/handoff to next shift including pending discharges, admissions in process, empty beds, beds being cleaned, and closed beds with the reason.