Job Description
Job Summary
- The Ophthalmic Practitioner is responsible for patient’s registration, orderliness in the clinic and record management of both pre-op and post-op patient.
Responsibilities
Admission:
- Take patient to appropriate designated area of required care
- Ensure room is ready and AC is put on
- Take patient for biometry if not done
- Call lab scientist if not done
- Ensure theatre gown is in all the room
- Ensure patients wear the gown as soon as they get into the room
- Raise bills for patients
- Ensure patient gown is removed as soon as they enter into the room 2 hours after surgery
- Check pre and post op vital signs
- Transfer patient into the theatre with file
- Ensure payment for surgery by checking for payment
- Ensure patient is comfortable
- Ensure juice and water is in patient fridge
- Take patient back to the ward after surgery
- Enter post op pink sheet on the indigo
- Ensure ‘’DONE ‘’is clicked on the indigo couselling for all surgery patient
- Write AEC for patient
- Adequate handover.
Night Duty Admissions:
- Take over from morning shift
- Remove pad fom paient eye
- Ensure post op VA is done
- Ensure VA is written in the yellow form
- Tag surgery files
- Enter VA in excel sheet
- Ensure slit lamp,prescription sheet,appointment sheet and other prints are available
- Ensure biometry and lab for surgery patient for the next day are tagged if not yet done
- Ensure post op yellow sheet and pink sheetis entered in the indigo
- Preparation of theatre at 6am
- Drape preparation.
Ward Assistant (Admissions):
- Ensure in-patients have hospital complimentary drinks and snacks
- Raise bills for all patients
- Take patient for biometry
- Enter patients details in the indigo
- Ensure water, juice and toileteries are in patient room
- Ensure councellation if necessary
- Ensure approval when necessary
- Enter surgeries in the excell sheet
- Ensure all discharged patients are entered into the indigo and click done
- Verify kitchen meal invoice
- Scan and upload all operation notes any other documents for upload
- Write sales report.
Clinic Morning Duty:
- Ensure to attend the morning meetings and hurdles at 8am
- Ensure the clinic is ready by 8.10 am .
- Ensure facial tissue,purit are in the consulting room
- Ensure prescription sheet,lenses ie 20D,78D,90D etc ,appointment sheet are in the consulting room
- Ensure ROS pack is in the consulting room
- Ensure indirect opthalmoscope is in consulting room
- Ensure slit lamp is on and tested and ok
- Ensure the computer is ready for indigo
- Enter all seen patients on indigo
- Call the right patient in to see the consultant or resident as the case may be
- Enter details on the indigo
- Take the file out to the outstationed nurse or ncop
- Ensure patients are attended to accordingly
- Ensure the slit lamps are covered at the end of the clinic
- If on duty on Sunday, slit lamps should be thoroughly cleaned, savlon bottles washed and refilled per week quantity.
For Outpatient Department:
- Collect file from inside stationed ncop
- Ensure vital signs are done in VA Room
- Ensure instructions are carried out e.g dilation,navigation to procedure or pharmacy or counselling dept etc.