Surgical Procedure Assistant
The South Bend Clinic
Date: 1 week ago
City: Mishawaka, IN
Contract type: Full time
Standard
- Provides assessment of medical/service needs of patients to ensure high quality care and optimal patient flow.
- Receives patients professionally in waiting area and rooms per department protocol.
- Performs the technical component of the department’s clinical procedures competently.
- Communication of all patient care is thorough, objective, concise, and follows appropriate legal guidelines.
- Documentation of all patient care is thorough, objective, concise, and follows appropriate legal guidelines.
- Appropriately responds to emergency situations.
- Maintains accurate and current logs for equipment. Ex. Refrigerator temp, autoclave, eye wash, crash cart.
- Verifies patient insurance coverage for pre-certification, referrals, and/or authorizations and documents in NextGen.
- Applies knowledge of general insurance guidelines and requirements to help direct patient care.
- Exhibits computer systems knowledge and proficiency as necessary to perform job functions.
- Takes initiative to seek out tasks and duties or to assist others as necessary.
- Performs other duties as assigned when appropriate.
- Exhibits computer systems knowledge and proficiency as necessary to perform job functions.
- Adheres to HIPAA guidelines as set forth in Clinic policies and practices.
- Required to scrub in for surgical procedures and assist physician. This will be required a minimum of 20% of a full-time equivalent’s duties.
- Obtains patient consent for surgery, prep, and drapes the patient in a sterile manner and administers local anesthesia.
- Accurately and discreetly schedules, reschedules, cancels, and/or confirms patient appointments with provider per department protocols.
- Completes complicated suture removals and assesses wound for infection.
- Must have completed a medical assistant certification program or have equivalent experience.
- Surgery or wound care experience preferred in Dermatology.
- Detail oriented, excellent organizational and communication skills and be able to efficiently multi-task in a highly productive clinical setting.
- Familiarity with various surgical instruments and up to date on OSHA regulations, safety procedures and equipment.
- Must maintain a sterile setting at all times during surgical procedures.
- Ability to anticipate the needs of the physician. Must be a team player and professional at all times.
- Must be patient focused.
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