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The primary role of a radiologic technologist (also called an x-ray technologist or radiographer) is using x-ray equipment to produce images of tissues, organs, bones, and vessels and administering radiation therapy treatments. Although radiologic technologists are required to be knowledgeable in all terminology related with radiography, anatomy, pathology, etc., a professional technologist will also possess strong interpersonal skills. A large part of the job requires giving instructions to patients who may be a bit nervous with the various radiography procedures. A well-trained technologist will be able to give straight-forward instructions as well as foster a sense of comfort and confidence to patients.

 

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and operate diagnostic X-Ray imaging equipment and materials
• Adjusts the X-Ray equipment and operates controls to ensure there is no overexposure
• Perform various X-Ray exams according to Radiation Safety Officer’s standards and procedures
• While using clear communication, position and assist patients for imaging/exam
• Shielding patients from unnecessary exposure to radiation
• Follow providers orders to ensure accuracy of image capture
• Evaluate taken images for accuracy and clarity; ensure laterality is labeled
• Enter patient’s demographic data and patient history of any comparable exams
• Maintains all required documentation to meet regulatory standards
• Transfers daily images to LifeImage; utilize checks and balances to ensure report is received from SB imaging department, signed off, and scanned into chart
• Prepare CDs with images for patient requests
• Communicates with consulting agency for quarterly inspections of equipment
• Maintain clean, safe, and sanitized X-Ray room
• Ensure HIPAA guidelines are followed
• Performs related duties, as required

JOB RESPONSIBILITES:

• Under the direction and supervision of a licensed physician, provides health care to patients including diagnosis and treatment.
• Under the supervision of physician, obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, makes diagnosis and orders appropriate and standard laboratory and diagnostic procedures as necessary in the office.
• Evaluates procedure results and finding to physicians.
• The Nurse Practitioner will be handling general Neurology.
• Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient’s plan of care.
• Provides patient education about underlying medical condition, self-management of acute or chronic illnesses and tailors instructions to patients’ individual circumstances. Instructs and counsels patients regarding therapeutic regimens, promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Prescribes medications.
• Administers medication/immunizations, suturing, managing wounds and infections, etc.
• Documents exam and progress notes. Provides referral letters as needed.
• In addition to office visits, the Nurse Practitioner will perform other tests and procedures specific to the specialty.
• Collects, monitors and reports on patient outcomes.
• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role.
• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring and discharging patients.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Other duties as assigned by supervising physicians.

• Ensure HIPAA guidelines are followed at all times.

 

General Purpose :

Responsible for the daily coordination and care requirements of patients with all clinical aspects for the Internal Medical Practice to ensure the highest level of patient satisfaction and care.

 

Duties:

• Collaborate in daily huddle for review of schedule and patient needs
• Perform screening and measuring procedures according to protocol. This may include, but is not limited to vitals of height, weight, blood pressure, pulse, temperature, EKG. Record findings in the electronic medical record (EMR) Cerner system.
• Compassionate towards patients with strong communication skills
• Detail orientated to keep track of multiple patients
• Review medications and allergies with patients and record pharmacy information for each patient for E-Prescribing.
• Prepare and administer injections
• Draw blood when necessary
• Care and changing dressings
• Collection of Specimens
• Maintain inventory and ordering medical supplies
• Maintain Patient Confidentiality
• Review facility assessment reports and/or outside physician documentation.
• Schedule ancillary services and other procedures as needed.
• Call in renewal of prescriptions as directed by Physician
• Follow up with patient upon completion of authorization to provide authorization information to the patient.
• Secure all medication/needles to be in locked cabinet
• Ensure patient results and correspondences are reviewed in a timely manner by the physician and appropriate follow up is performed according to the physician’s direction
• Maintain an adequate supply of inventory in each of the exam rooms while ensuring the cleanliness of the examination room
• Maintain the organization of the sample medication closet to be clean and organized. Ensure logging and end of day security.
• Assist in scanning of medical documentation such as EKG, Spirometer, etc.
• Ensure HIPAA guidelines are followed

This is an opening for the front desk of a busy practice. You are the first point of contact with the patients.

Essential Job Functions:

• • Perform all necessary receptionist duties including answering, screening and
  • Routing of phone calls. Take appropriate messages and ensure the proper delivery of those messages.
• • Be polite and courteous at all times.
  • Be able to triage phone calls and determine if urgent, give call to physician or nurse immediately.
• • Greet and register each patient as they arrive.
  • Verify patient demographics and insurance information into the EMR.
  • Collect any necessary co-payments.
  • Notify the provider/staff of patients’ arrival.
  • Schedule patient appointments.
  • Schedule any services or procedures as needed.
  • Maintain/prepare patient charts and physician schedule.
  • Open and close office, if needed.
  • Ensure HIPAA & OSHA guidelines are followed at all times.

Job Summary:

The Lead Medical Assistant collaborates with the Nurse Manager in an office setting to ensure quality patient care in satellite location(s).

Essential Job Functions:

• Under the direction and supervision of the nurse manager provides leadership in satellite location(s).
• Monitors patient flow
• Manages maintenance of equipment
• Orders clinical supplies
• Runs and scribes for practitioners
• Set up and care for stress and/or echo-stress test patients
• Provides assistance with Holter monitors
• Ensure HIPPA guidelines are followed at all times.

• Review physician orders and place patients in the examination rooms.
• Use of high tech sonography equipment to produce images for ordered procedure.
• Perform screening and measuring procedures according to protocol.
• Communication with the patient and ensuring their comfort during the procedure.
• Use good judgment when reviewing images to provide the best ultrasound for the Physician who will read the ultrasound.
• Maintain, scan patient charts into EMR
• Ensure patient results and correspondences are reviewed in a timely manner by the physician and appropriate follow up is performed according to the physicians direction
• Maintain an adequate supply of inventory in each of the exam rooms while ensuring the cleanliness of the examination room

The Registered Nurse collaborates with the Cardiologists in an office setting.

Essential Job Functions:

• Under the direction and supervision of a license physician, provides health care to patients including diagnosis and treatment.
• Obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, makes diagnosis and orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Review test results.
• Provides patient education about underlying medical condition.
• Instructs and counsels patients regarding therapeutic regimens, promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Administers immunizations.
• The Registered Nurse will perform other duties as assigned by supervising physicians.
• The Registered Nurse will perform cardiac stress tests to prepare patients for Cardiac Imaging (Nuclear or Ultrasound), EKGs, Holter Monitors and Pacemaker checks.
• Ensure HIPPA guidelines are followed at all times.

You are the first point of contact with the patients.

Essential Job Functions:

• Perform all necessary receptionist duties including answering, screening and routing of phone calls. Take appropriate messages and ensure the proper delivery of those messages. Be polite and courteous at all times.
• Be able to triage phone calls and determine if urgent, give call to physician or nurse immediately.
• Greet and register each patient as they arrive.
• Verify patient demographics and insurance information into the EMR.
• Collect any necessary co-payments.
• Notify the provider/staff of patients arrival.
• Schedule patient appointments.
• Schedule any services or procedures as needed.
• Maintain/prepare patient charts and physician schedule.
• Open and close office, if needed.
• Ensure HIPAA guidelines are followed at all times.

A laborist (also known as an OB/GYN hospitalist) is an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN) who specializes in providing care to women in labor and delivery, primarily within a hospital setting. Laborists are dedicated to delivering babies and responding to obstetrical and gynecological emergencies. Laborists often work 24/7 to ensure continuity of care for patients in labor, especially during situations where a patient's own OB/GYN is not immediately available.

JOB RESPONSIBILITES:

• Providing direct inpatient obstetric care, including managing labor, deliveries, and postpartum care.
• Handles obstetric triage evaluations, perform vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections, and respond to obstetric emergencies.
• Collaborating with other specialists, promoting a culture of safety, and participating in quality improvement initiatives.
• Laborists provide comprehensive inpatient coverage for patients requiring obstetric admission, including managing labor, overseeing deliveries, and ensuring proper postpartum care.
• Laborists evaluate patients presenting in triage and facilitate their admission or discharge as clinically indicated.
• Laborists manage both routine and complex deliveries, including operative vaginal and cesarean deliveries.
• Laborists are responsible for responding to obstetric emergencies like postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, eclampsia, and maternal-fetal resuscitation.
• Laborists collaborate with other specialists, including maternal-fetal medicine specialists, anesthesiologists, neonatologists, and nursing staff, to ensure optimal patient care.
• Laborists promote a culture of safety through open communication and debriefing and participate in quality improvement initiatives.

JOB RESPONSIBILITES:

• Provides health care to patients including diagnosis and treatment as team leader.
• Obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, and makes diagnosis, and orders appropriate, standard laboratory and diagnostic procedures as necessary.
• Conduct interviews with patients, examine them, and perform tests (x-rays, MRIs, arthroscopy, and blood sampling) to make diagnoses. Determine the sort of treatment that is warranted. Surgical procedures include mending broken bones, reattaching ligaments and tendons, and replacing hips and joints with prosthetic devices. Orthopedic surgeons also perform noninvasive procedures like prescribing drugs and nutritional supplements; recommending therapeutic exercises; and immobilizing fractured bones with the use of braces, splints, and casts.
• Treat fractures and dislocations; torn ligaments, sprains, and strains; tendon injuries, pulled muscles, and bursitis; ruptured discs, sciatica, low-back pain, and scoliosis; knock knees, bow legs, bunions, and hammer toes; arthritis and osteoporosis; bone tumors, muscular dystrophy, and cerebral palsy; club foot and unequal leg length; abnormalities of the fingers and toes; and growth abnormalities.
• Study patients’ medical histories, then meets with patient to discuss their complaints and symptoms.
• Examine or supervise the examination and diagnostic testing of patient.
• Make diagnoses, and recommend surgery or other treatment
• Schedule facilities and medical staff for operation.
• Perform surgical and noninvasive procedures.
• Prescribe drugs and supplements.
• Create postoperative-care plans, and recommend lifestyle changes involving diet, exercise, and other matters
• Evaluates procedure results. Provides preventative as well as acute care.
• Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patients’ plan of care.
• Provides patient education about underlying medical condition, self-management of acute or chronic illnesses and tailors instructions to patients’ individual circumstances.
• Instructs and counsels patients regarding therapeutic regimens, promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Prescribes medications.
• Documents exam and progress notes in the Electronic Medical Record. Provides referral letters as needed.
• Collects, monitors and reports on patient outcomes.

• Ensure HIPAA and OSHA guidelines are followed at all times.
• Responsible for the conduct and care given by other clinical office staff including nurses, medical assistants and technologists. The physician is the head of the clinical team.
• Responsible for conduct and patient interaction of shadowing medical students, physician extenders and nursing interns.
• Provide daily call coverage to local hospital.
• Responsible for meeting quality benchmarks established by Payors, NYS DOH or Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services.
• Follows established evidence based practices and assures good quality patient care.
• Must build a patient population base to generate revenue to cover salary & expenses.