Job Order Detail

Description

Receive and Assist Patients
Take charts to doctors in the proper order as patients arrive
Ensure patients in waiting room are accounted for
Take patients into examining rooms in a timely manner
Assist with mobility and/or transfer of patients
Assessment
Do prenatal weights and blood pressures
Do vital signs on patients as required, e.g., blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature and pulse oximetry
Do visual acuity tests
Do ECGs as required
Assist with paps and pelvic exams
Assist Physician as required
Treatments
Assist Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and RNs with patient treatments as required, e.g., minor surgery (assuring correct labelling of Lab specimens), IUD insertion, endometrial biopsies, wound suturing, application of casts, etc.
Assist patients in the Lab who are feeling unwell
Apply tensors Provide wound dressing and health teaching of wound care
Do suture removal
Referrals
Arrange urgent referral appointments to other doctors, specialists, and/or agencies as requested by Physicians or other health care providers
Document all referral information in patient charts    
Provide patients with pertinent health information