Practice Assistant- IL- Simulation Clinic, College of Dental Medicine

Summary

The Practice Assistant is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the College of Dental Medicine
- Illinois Simulation Clinic, including the management and taking inventory of materials, equipment, and supplies. The Practice Assistant works in multiple areas within the College of Dental Medicine
- Illinois Simulation Clinic. This position reports to the Associate Dean for Pre-Clinical Studies.

• Model and ensure professional and collegial behavior among Student Doctors, Faculty Members, and Staff.
• Maintain a positive working environment.
• Provide an environment of high-quality, open and respectful communications.

• Participate in the cycle of equipment, delivery units, manikins, instruments, and supplies.
• Prepare and deliver instruments and material carts.
• Check out equipment, instruments, and supplies.
• Check the used instruments and equipment back in.
• Deliver instrument carts with used supplies back to the dispensary and sterilization room and return clean instruments back to students’ units.
• Maintain the tracking and inventory control system for all disposable supplies, teeth, typodonts, and specialty materials for rotations.
• Place purchase orders needed for supplies, materials, instruments, and equipment as needed on the Midwestern University portal following proper protocol.

• Report malfunctioning equipment to the appropriate personnel
• Identify and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials during and after the SIM clinic sessions.
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation.
• Assure adherence of all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines.
• Participate in instrument, equipment, and supply management and annual planning.

• Function as an integral component in the quality assurance of the College of Dental Medicine
  -Illinois.
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols.
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to management.

• Responsible for the dispensing, collecting, and processing of dental instruments, equipment, and consumable supplies utilized in the College of Dental Medicine
  - Illinois clinics for the treatment of patients, both real and simulated, as well as for the education of student doctors.
• Prepare and process instruments, supplies, and equipment.
• Clean, disinfect, sterilize, package, and restock instruments, supplies, and equipment.
• Utilize aseptic techniques when handling instruments, equipment, and supplies.
• Track, inventory, and dispense dental instruments, supplies, and equipment.
• Package and sterilize disposable supplies such as gauze, cotton rolls, and cotton pellets.
• Assist with data entry, ordering, and sorting clinical supplies.
• Maintain the sterilization testing log, organization, cleanliness, and general appearance of the sterilizing and dispensing rooms and their related storage facilities.
• Maintain the stock of supplies needed to properly run the sterilizing and dispensing rooms, such as autoclave bags, tape, towels, patients’ drapes, caps, etc.
• Assist in the training of new employees.
• Educate staff, faculty, and students about sterilization and infection control issues.

• Provide chair-side dental assisting, when required, as outlined in the Illinois Dental Clinic Team Act.

• Transfer dental instruments.
• Adjust equipment to proper position.
• Manipulate and transfer dental materials.
• Retract soft tissue.
• Evacuate the oral cavity of debris to maintain a clear field of operation.
• Make diagnostic-quality radiographic images.
• Set up and maintain dental cubicles.
• Utilize aseptic techniques.
• Follow up on proper infection control guidelines.
• Demonstrate four-handed dentistry.
• Place dental dams on teeth to isolate them for individual treatment.
• Prepare materials…