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Ophthalmic Assistant Texas Eye Care Network
Corpus Christi, Texas TPR/CPM StaffFuel your passion for patient-centered care and elevate your medical career in our thriving physician office. Join our collaborative team, where every day brings new opportunities to make a meaningful impact on the well-being of our community.
At Tenet Physician Resources, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Career development and continuing education opportunities
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
- Performs basic diagnostic tests accurately and in a way that instills patient confidence
- Assist physician or optometrist with clinical procedures, administers eye drops and oral medications and inserts and removes contacts
- Triages patients appropriately based on appointment time and acuity of problem prepares patient for doctor and maintains smooth, efficient flow throughout clinic
- Must be able to travel between offices as needed to staff other clinics.
- Adheres to all administrative and clinical practice policies and procedures
- Maintain efficient patient flow in exam area and keep patient informed of waiting status
- Provide accurate and consistent documentation
- Provide education to patients before and after procedures in terms they can understand, providing written instructions as available.
- Ensure that all medical records are in appropriate order, secured in the chart and each page contains patients full name and birthday before returning to medical records
- Obtain patient history
- Accurately test patients distance acuity, near acuity, confrontation visual fields, stereo and color testing
- Perform lensometry on singe, bifocal, and progressive lenses as well as transposition accurately with minimal guidance
- Able to perform Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer accurately
- Able to perform refractometry with minimal assistance
- Has a basic understanding of ophthalmic medications including name, strength, dosage and reason for use.
- May be assigned ASC duties as appropriate, ranging from Provider assistance to running of lasers or related items
- Able to correctly perform the following procedures without supervision: Keratometry (ARK); IOL Master; Pachymetry; Topography; Check angles with slit lamp; Identify pupil abnormalities and perform careful pupil measurements
- Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.
To greet patients in a professional, courteous manner and obtain and document pertinent medical and ophthalmic patient history on the appropriate forms. This person is also responsible for basic clinical and diagnostic testing responsibilities.
Education:
Required:High School Diploma or equivalent; Completion of COA or COT Training Program is highly preferred
Experience:
Preferred: 6 months to a year of experience as an Ophthalmic Assistant
Certifications:
Required: Active CPR/BLS through an AHA accredited program or agency.
Knowledge and Skills:
Proficiency using a computer and a lensometer
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