Description
Summary of Essential Duties :
Assist and chaperone MDs with set-up, procedures, ultrasounds, pelvic exams, and post-procedure patient care.
Provide coverage for clinical assistants, LVNs, and coordinating clinic flow.
Reviewing charts; preparing fee tickets; making follow-up calls to physician’s offices, patients with results, and post-procedural calls.
Coordinates all infertility treatments from beginning to end with patients, physicians, and Assisted Reproductive Technology staff.
Coordinates all other aspects of patients’ care such as : diagnostic testing, referrals, telephoning prescriptions or refills with physician’s orders, and retrieving ordered test results.
Demonstrates extensive patient education face-to-face and over-the-phone regarding : program services offered, treatment details, patients’ plan-of-care, multi-steps, up-coming treatment details, lab result interpretation, injection teaching, different diagnostic testing preparations, and pre-and post-operative teaching.
Perform Oral Glucose Tolerance, Adrenocorticoid Hormone testing, and phlebotomy as needed.
Communicate thoroughly to physicians and patients about abnormal lab results and proper follow up.
Daily follow up of ordered labs, especially those undergoing fertility treatments, and communicating to patients the appropriate treatment plan.
Qualifications
Education :
Graduate of an accredited nursing program required
BSN preferred
License / Certification :
Current, unrestricted California State RN License required
American Heart Association BLS required
Experience :
A minimum of 1 year of acute care nursing experience required
At least 1 year of experience with care coordination in a fertility practice preferred
Certification : Basic Life Support