Ophthalmic Assistant Certified - Ophthalmology -Tyler at Christus Health summary:
The Ophthalmic Assistant Certified provides high-quality ophthalmic procedures while assisting physicians with patient care, history collection, and education. The role requires advanced knowledge of ophthalmic anatomy and technical skills to perform various diagnostic tests such as visual acuity, refraction, and OCT. Certification as a Certified Ophthalmic Assistant and experience in an ophthalmology clinical setting are required for this full-time position.
Description Summary:
Performs high-quality ophthalmic procedures, focusing on patient care and education.
Responsibilities:
- Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
- Advanced understanding of ophthalmic anatomy is required, as well as the ability to efficiently scribe for physicians.
- Promptly and professionally assisting the doctor in patient care, collecting patient history, and performing patient education.
- Performing technical workups to include visual acuity, lensometry, color vision, visual field tests (Humphrey and Goldman), manual keratometry, refraction, Amslers, muscle testing, topography, pupil exams, OCT, pachymetry, and other special testing as directed by physician.
- Advanced technical workups in performing retinoscopy and A-Scans as directed by physician.
- Follows physician protocol for A-Scans and fills in at Special Testing when needed.
Job Requirements:
Education/Skills
- High School Diploma required.
- Graduate of accredited Vision program preferred.
Experience
- 1 year of experience working at an Ophthalmology clinic setting required.
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
- BLS required.
- Certified Ophthalmic Assistant (COA) from IJCAHPO required.
- Ophthalmic Scribe Certification (OSC) preferred.
Work Schedule:
5 Days - 8 Hours
Work Type:
Full Time
Keywords:
Ophthalmic assistant, Certified Ophthalmic Assistant, Vision testing, Patient education, Ophthalmology clinic, Visual acuity testing, Lensometry, A-Scan, OCT, Patient care