Ophthalmic Assistant / Special Tester

Description :

O ur mission is to provide quality, accessible and patient-centered eye care .

Consider joining Magruder Eye Institute / Ascend Vision Partners and join a team that are focused on building a differentiated integrated eye care platform focused on superior patient care delivered through our network of optometrists and ophthalmologists. Team members are expected to exhibit a continuous behavior of professionalism, which includes but is not limited to, acting with integrity and accountability, support our clinicians in all aspects of patient care delivery, support a culture of respect, diversity and inclusion in our organization, and enhance the patient access to primary and specialty eye care.

Our vision is to create an admired healthcare company dedicated to delivering personalized eye care with outstanding patient outcomes.

We are seeking a Full-Time energetic and reliable individual to join our team as an Ophthalmic Assistant / Special Tester. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing chair-side doctor assistance, performing diagnostic tests as required by ophthalmologist, and administering treatment as allowed and ordered by the physician.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Obtains patient history, to include chief complaint, history of present illness, past history (ocular and general), family history (ocular and general), and history of allergies and medications.
• Monitors patient flow, ensuring the physician exam rooms are full.
• Performs duties consistent with ophthalmic writer / scribe.
• Performs accurate and consistent documentation and measurement tasks to include :
• Visual acuity
• Manual lensometry
• confrontational visual fields
• Stereopsis
• Motility
• Pupillary function
• Color Plates
• Applanation tonometry
• Humphrey Visual Field
• Provides patient education; reviews physician-generated instructions with patient, and provides appropriate patient education materials as directed by physician.
• Maintains stock levels and cleanliness of exam rooms.
• Ability to travel to all office locations and work with any doctor as assigned.
• Participate in duties interdepartmentally as deemed necessary, by the clinical supervisor, office manager, and / or doctor(s).

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