Ophthalmic Assistant - Effingham Ophthalmology Clinic

Job description

Internal Employees: Please ensure that you are logged into Workday and applying through the Jobs Hub before proceeding. Ophthalmic Assistant - Effingham Ophthalmology Clinic Job Description: Ophthalmic Assistants are responsible for providing assistance to providers in the direct and indirect care of Practice Management Ophthalmology patients. Performs patient or office related duties including but not limited to assisting in the diagnostic evaluation, management, treatment, education and care of patients with medical and surgical conditions affecting the visual system. Documents data and provider directed information in patient records, functioning clinically as support staff to provider(s). Responsibilities: Accepts reassignment at the direction and discretion of management, as applicable to staffing levels and patient volumes., Administers medication as directed by the provider, including eye drops, ointments and irrigating solutions to the eye., Administration of pharmacological agents related to eye care procedures as prescribed and supervised by the Physician, including but not limited to topical anesthetics, fluorescein and other topical dyes, dilating agents, miotics and pr...