Ophthalmic Assistant-Certified (Medical Assistant) - 30 hours per week
Company: Kaiser
Location: Bremerton
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
-Job Summary:Provide technical and patient care support either
in a clinic or on the phone as a member of the Eye Care team. In
clinic perform measurement and evaluation tests and perform
specified procedures. On phone acts as a triage point for urgent,
emergent and general Eye Care needs. May support fitting of contact
lenses and provide patient instruction.Essential
Responsibilities:
- Anticipates and recognizes changes in the patient's eye health
status and needs for eye care.
- Clinic only - History taking: Presenting complaint/history of
presenting illness, past ocular history, family history, systemic
illness, past and present, medications, allergies and drug
reactions.
- Phone only - Using the Eye Care triage process, provides
telephone consultation to patients. Determines priorities of
patient care based on essential patient needs and available
resources.
- Clinical Exam (clinic only) -
- Basic Testing Skills:
- Methods of measuring/recording acuity, color vision testing,
lensometry, A-scan biometry, Exophthalmometry Amsler Grid,
Schirmer, Tests Evaluation of Pupils, Estimation of Anterior
chamber depth, Visual field evaluation.
- Perform Patient Services Procedures:
- Ocular dressings and shields, Drug delivery, spectacle
principles, assisting patient, minor surgery assist and
instruction. -
- Instrument Maintenance:
- Acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers,
perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound,
keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special
instruments, surgical instruments.
- Appointing:
- Clinic - May check-in or make -follow up appointments.
- Phone - Provides appropriate schedule guidance through use of
technical skill and judgement along with established
protocols.
- Patient Care: -
- Encourages patient compliance with established therapeutic and
medical treatment. -
- Promotes patient self-care responsibility for meeting their own
eye health needs. -
- Adheres to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington
documentation standards. -
- Provides a safe environment for each patient and adheres to
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington safety standards.
-
- Clinic - Basic principles, fitting procedures, patient
instruction, trouble-shooting problems, verification of lenses,
cash handling, retail opinions for contact lenses.Sign On Bonus:
$6500 -Basic Qualifications:Experience
- N/AEducation
- High School Diploma OR General Education Development (GED)
required.License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Medical Assistant (Washington) within 2 months of
hire
- Ophthalmic Assistant Certificate required at hire from The
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology
- Basic Life Support required at hire -Additional
Requirements:
- Computer experience in a MS Windows environment; keyboarding
skills.
- Customer service skills.
- General medical knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
anatomy, physiology, systemic diseases, ocular diseases, ocular
emergencies, and metric conversion fundamentals of microbial
control. -Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with contact lens patients and
products.
- Experience working in an ophthalmology or optometry
practice.
- Graduate of an accredited medical assistant, ophthalmic
assistant, or allied health professional program.Job Schedule: Job
Category: Clinical Support, Medical Assistant
Keywords: Kaiser, Seattle , Ophthalmic Assistant-Certified (Medical Assistant) - 30 hours per week, Healthcare , Bremerton, Washington
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