Orthopedic Job Description
Orthopedic Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective orthopedic job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included orthopedic job description templates that you can modify and use.
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Orthopedic Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Orthopedic
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CPR, ACLS, NBCOT, NAOT, OTC, AHA, FIM, AMA, PALS
Education for Orthopedic
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the orthopedic job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Education, Department of Education, Nursing, Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Medical, Graduate, Health, School of Nursing, Technical
Skills for Orthopedic
Desired skills for orthopedic include:
Desired experience for orthopedic includes:
Orthopedic Examples
Orthopedic Job Description
- Perform procedures as credentialed
- Assist providers with patient assessments and procedures
- Support expected program outcomes of reduced ED visits, improved medication compliance, reduced gaps in care, improved patient care coordination and patient satisfaction with the healthcare experience
- Serve as a clinical liaison
- Demonstrate awareness and recognition of the plan of care across the continuum to direct patient care issues
- Provide clinical leadership for patient care coordination and collaborate with internal and external providers, staff and payers to ensure high-quality outcomes for patients/families
- Assists physicians with patient care and flow during office hours
- Sell SECUROS surgical instruments and suture as complimentary to the orthopedic line
- Provide answers to technical questions regarding SECUROS products via telephone and/or emails within the region
- Report marketing and sales field intelligence to the SECUROS home office
- Ability to demonstrate and apply knowledge of cast application, traction and orthopedic appliance application
- Ability to demonstrate and utilize knowledge of surgical orthopedic and sterile techniques
- Ability to demonstrate and apply knowledge of cast application and traction and orthopedic appliance application
- Under direct supervision, the ability to work and assist in the Operating Room
- Must have Orthopedic Technician Certification
- Minor Procedure background preferred
Orthopedic Job Description
- Represent Securos at tradeshows within the region, as requested
- Adapts to changes in work environment and accurately performs medication administration as directed by physician
- Demonstrates knowledge of disease process and therapeutics by recognizing changes in patient status and reports pertinent information to Charge Nurse and/or Physician
- Answers telephone in an appropriate and professional manner, takes accurate messages and promptly relays messages to appropriate individuals
- Takes messages for prescription refills
- Under the direction of the physicians, contacts pharmacy with prescription refills and records prescription in file
- Maintains contact with patients throughout the continuum of care
- Establishes and promotes collaborative relationships with physicians and other members of the health care team
- Assists physicians in treatment of orthopedic patients
- Removing stitches, sutures or staples
- Recent Medical-Surgical and/or Orthopedic experience
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required from American Heart Association Ortho tech certificate desirable
- Applies casts
- Instructs MA's on application of casts/splints.*
- Keeps the cast room clean and properly stocked.*
- Maintains knowledge of, and complies with, clinic-related OSHA guidelines, especially, but not limited to, disposal of bio hazardous material.*
Orthopedic Job Description
- Help with pre-op of surgery
- Facilitate efficient flow of patients through the clinic
- Provide patient education regarding their condition
- Collaborate with primary care providers in the treatment and well being of all patients
- Complete patient care assignments based on severity of illness, scope of professional practice and individual strengths and weaknesses
- Maintain neat and clean patient exam rooms and work areas
- Participate in quality assessment and performance improvement activities
- Respond to patient phone calls and provide appropriate counsel/follow up
- Maintain orderly sample drug supply room and ensure appropriate documentation is maintained on dispensing of sample drugs
- Work as a team with other members of the clinic to ensure the highest quality of care at all times
- Communicates patient concerns, or concerns about the clinic and/or process to Supervisor.*
- Attends team and office meetings and actively participates*
- Works to continually promote team effort and esprit*
- Conducts self in a professional manner with patients, co-workers, supervisors and others in the workplace*
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Science or Engineering is required
- Working knowledge of application of orthopedic appliances
Orthopedic Job Description
- Other duties as required and assigned by the Program Manager, Providers or Operations Team
- The Associate is responsible for providing constructive input to enhance the work process/environment in coordination with the Operations Leader to ensure achievement of Field Logistics objectives
- Will deliver and pickup devices in hospital/surgical center designated staging areas
- Provide a high degree of customer service through interactions with sales consultants, hospital partners and logistics team
- Checks in instrument sets to ensure all required instruments are present and order replacement parts when necessary
- Provide general support to the operations including the assembly of new instrument sets
- Maintain equipment and materials in a safe, neat, clean, and orderly fashion
- Provide technical assistance and advise concerning casts, sprints, braces, to physicians, residents, medical students and nurses
- Provide verbal or written cast care instructions to patients, answer any and all questions they may have about their casts, splint, or other orthopedic needs
- Maintain a sanitary work area to include patient care rooms, equipment and instruments
- Basic knowledge of fracture management
- Basic knowledge of good oral and written communication skills
- Basic knowledge of proper body mechanics
- Ability to lift patients and equipment
- Application of basic casts and splints and orthopedic appliances
- Ability to identify and evaluate problems with casts, splints and orthopedic appliances
Orthopedic Job Description
- Medical Coders abstract and code Evaluation and Management (E&M) visits, diagnoses, and procedures according to International Classification of Disease, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM) and Physician's Current Procedural Terminology, current edition (CPT/HCPCS) coding guidelines
- Provide triage assessment, nursing diagnosis and evaluating all aspects of nursing care for paitnets coming directly from surgery
- Deliver unique value to support the needs of individual hospital members, purchasing groups and academic medical centers
- Direct involvement with councils, committees, and/or task forces to validate findings
- Must achieve, maintain and grow the targeted revenue base for the contracts assigned, demonstrate financial aptitude in the preparation of expense and revenue budgets
- Provide strong customer service to hospital members through timely communication, problem resolution, participation in councils and the execution of individualized support plans
- Maintain practical knowledge of the healthcare industry, market dynamics and new technology within assigned areas
- EMR system-EPIC
- 4-6 OR cases per day
- 5-10 consults per day
- Ability to identify problems with circulation and skin integrity related to use of orthopedic treatments and modalities and refer to appropriate provider
- Ability to apply basic knowledge of fracture management to patient care
- Demonstrated written and oral skills in communicating with other staff and providers
- Ability to use proper techniques of body mechanics in application of casts and splints and performance of other job duties
- Strong telephone selling skills to compliment personal selling activities
- Ability to deliver well written, comprehensive and timely call reports