Patient Care Assistant

Base Pay Range:$18.06 - $27.09

Job Description:

The Supplemental Patient Care Assistant will fill in for vacation and sick calls at various locations based on department need. This position is eligible for a 12% supplemental differential

Summary:

To assist the radiologists and technologists to obtain the highest quality studies and to effect the most efficient workflow in the department.

General Description:

The Patient Care Assistant – MRI must be able to: work effectively and efficiently in a fast paced environment in meeting continual deadlines; handle multiple priorities with constant interruptions; be highly organized to meet deadlines. Organizational skills are essential. Interacts with the radiologists, other departments within Inland Imaging, patients and family members and outside contacts. Excellent written, verbal and personal communication skills;

be tactful and diplomatic; and be highly confidential. Makes decisions regarding daily work priorities and other decisions based on company policies and procedures.

Essential

Duties / Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Escort patients to exam rooms and instruct patient in the appropriate preparation for exam Maintain clean, well stocked exam and dressing rooms

Pull previous studies and reports

Assist scheduling department with scheduling patients and call backs as needed

Assist Technologists with patients as needed

Interact with Nursing, Front Office Core, and Reading Room Assistants to ensure smooth work flow throughout the clinic or hospital

Maintain clean scan room environment

Use required computer programs proficiently

May transport patients to/from inpatient department or Emergency Room to/from Inland Imaging department.

Knowledgeable of hospital codes and infection status (if applicable)
This position may be required to work in a hospital, urgent care or clinical setting.

Performs other duties as assigned

Northpointe Location Only:

Prepare and setup Arthrogram injection tray.

Assist X-ray with preparing patients for exams when needed.

NWO Location Only:

Prepare billing slips for NWOS billing office to ensure accurate CPT code was selected. Deliver to 4th floor billing office.

Reminder calls for next day’s MRI appointments.

Send messages of scheduled appointment to practice coordinators through the NWOS e-Medsys system. Scheduler will provide a list each morning.

Process new orders submitted by NWOS office for scheduling. Ensure order is complete and authorized. Send and label orders with comments to the Medicalis Worklist for scheduler to call.

Review old orders in Insurance pending folders for Medicalis worklist and request practice coordinator at NWOS for an update on the authorization process through e-Medsys as needed.

SHIC Location Only:

Completes the paperwork for biopsies and locs, lab work for specimens, consent forms and discharge instructions.a. Consults the patients history and physical and fills out the biopsy procedure paperwork under the direction of the technologist and nurseb. Fills out the paperwork for PAML (laboratory paperwork to process the specimen).Delivers specimens to lab Provides one on one patient support before, during and after a breast procedures by:a.

Screening the patient.b. Assists them in changing their clothes.c. Escorts patient for IV placement.d. Helps to position the patient on the biopsy table.e. Stays with the patient after first set of images are obtained, while the technologist and radiologist plan the procedure.f. Communicates timelines, what to expect as the procedure progresses to the patient.g. The assistant is in constant presence with the patient from beginning of procedure to discharge.

Assists in setting up and cleaning up the MR Room, biopsy tray, biopsy table and biopsy machine

Assists with patient care after procedure by:a. Holds pressure until bleeding has stopped.b. Dresses incision.c. Escorts patient to and…