About this role
Summary of Position: Provide safe and effective patient care in office and surgical settings.
Duties and Job Responsibilities:
• Follow clinical assignment sheet daily including team duties.
• Coordinate patient flow.
• Prepare patient for examination by practitioner.
• Update vital patient information in EHR.
• Change dressings, collect specimens and provide treatments as directed by practitioner.
• Remove and apply casts/splints/sutures/staples as directed by practitioner.
• Take, document and complete phone messages from patients or other health care providers and route them appropriately per each team protocol.
• Provide DME to patients and complete DME flow of paperwork.
• Patient pre- and post-operative teaching as ordered by practitioner.
• Schedule tests or appointments with hospital or other providers as needed.
• Assure the clinical area is clean and organized.
• Stock patient rooms as needed.
• Promotes safe and effective patient care.
• Assures the clinical area is clean and organized.
• Observes and complies with all OAM personnel policies and procedures.
• Communicate and interact effectively with patients and families, physicians, peers and other team members to maximize successful patient outcomes.
• Maintain the confidentiality of patient and staff related information.
• Follow compliance and safety requirements.
• Prepare for surgical cases by delivering all necessary surgical paperwork, templates, radiology exams, etc.
• Follow orthopedic technician on-call schedule
• Assist providers with injections/procedures
• Check that all equipment is available for surgery
• Position patients for surgery
• Apply Tourniquets
• Prep and Drape patients for surgery
• Maintain sterile conditions
• Assist with wound exposure, hemostasis, retraction, bone reduction, drilling, plate/screw implant
• Prepare tissue grafts
• Insert drains
• Close wounds
• Apply dressing, braces, splints and casts
• Apply ice therapy
• Complete code sheets and return to billing dept.
• Log surgeries
• Other duties as assigned.