Location: Onsite at 17520 W Grand Pkwy S Suite 230, Sugar Land, TX 77479
Essential Job Duties:
- Greet and escort patients to examining room; make them feel welcome and comfortable.
- Prepare and assist patient for exams; obtain urine specimens, check vital signs, document symptoms, complaints and medications, prepare for lab tests and procedures, etc.
- Ensure the patients’ demographic information is correct and updated.
- Assist the physician, residents and fellows with exams and procedures.
- Give injections and/or teach the patient to administer injection when needed.
- Assist patient with obtaining lab slips and/or referrals, scheduling procedures, prescriptions, etc.
- Recognize urgent or emergency situations and act appropriately; reorder and replace items used from the crash cart or emergency kit.
- Accompany patient with emergency to hospital in wheelchair or by stretcher; monitor continuously until under the care of hospital nurse; document events inpatients’ medical record.
- Put charges and diagnoses on chart forms or obtain this from the physician.
- Instruct patient to take router copy to check-out.
- Take lab specimens to the dumb-waiter or lab.
- Maintain a safe environment for patients and others.
- Cooperate and interact with team members and co-workers.
- Educate patients on health care concerns and problems, office and hospital procedures, medications, testing, surgery, etc.
- Request and flow medical records.
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Practice infection control; dispose contaminated needles, drugs and supplies properly; use good hand washing technique; disinfect patient areas after use and clean exam rooms after patients are seen.
- Perform phlebotomy.
- Assist with pre and post-op care.
- Monitor established pregnancies through lab work and ultrasounds.
- Maintain patient charting, testing and flow sheets.