Traveling Clinical Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Balance At Home Advanced Wound Care

Specializing in advanced wound care treatments, our Balance At Home team believes in the importance of delivering the most technological advancements in wound care management in the comfort of patients' homes.

Areas Served

Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County (Home base at Balance : Medina)

Balance At Home Wound Care Clinical Assistant Job Overview

The Wound Care Clinical Assistant will function as a traveling member of the BAH patient care team utilizing her / his clinical knowledge and experience in order to provide professional care with an emphasis on hospitality to patients.

The Clinical Assistant will report to and travel to patients' homes with our Nurse Practitioner who specializes in total-body wound care services. This role would gain one on one training with our Nurse Practitioner in the advancing and growing field of wound care.

Duties include :

• Preparing for patients by organizing necessary paperwork and stocking car with supplies for the day ahead.
• Supply inventory.
• Briefing the NP with relevant information from patients' charts while enroute to each home.
• Setting up a sanitary work station with wound care supplies for NP.
• Ensuring proper registration paperwork insurance cards / IDs are collected upon first visit.
• Communicating with patient / caregivers what they can expect during the visit.
• Completing intake / updating relevant information such as pharmacy and medications in EMR.
• Keeping accurate documentation of wound measurements, orders and instructions given by NP during visit.
• Providing hands-on assistance to NP including, but not limited to :
• Moving / adjusting patients' position
• Bandage removal
• Recording wound measurements / photos
• Taking temperatures
• Preparing equipment for NP
• Proper clean up and / or disposal of supplies & equipment
• Sending documentation to Clerical Assistant as needed
• Dispense and explain after-care literature and instructions to patient / caregiver at end of visit
• Other duties as assigned

This position will require travel with our in-home Nurse Practitioner out of our Medina location.

General Responsibilities

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Learn more about Balance At Home with the links below :

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