What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mammography Assistant - Midtown (Radiology) - Full-Time position at Wilmington Health?
36 hrs a week .90 FTE
About Wilmington Health
Since 1971, Wilmington Health has been committed to the care and health of our community in Wilmington as well as all of Southeastern North Carolina. Wilmington Health is structured as a multi-specialty medical practice with primary care providers integrated into the system. In this way, Wilmington Health is able to provide a comprehensive and coordinated approach to the care of all our patients. Wilmington Health is committed to using collaborative, evidence-based medicine in providing the highest quality of care to the patients we serve.
Purpose :
Assist mammography technologists and patients
Essential Duties / Responsibilities :
- Create History Sheets for Patients
- Ensure orders are placed and correct
- Contact providers if orders need to be placed or changed
- Obtain prior imaging if needed
- Upload prior imaging that is received and send reports to medical records to be uploaded
- Fix duplicate accounts in Synapse Content Manager
- Effectively assess patients via history taking and or interview as needed
- Room Patients and have them change accordingly
- Check in, check out and update patient information as needed
- Push" orders from EHR to PACS when patients check in
- Cancel orders that are not needed and were pushed to PACS
- Answer all phone calls
- Schedule and Reschedule patients as needed for mammo and bone density
- Call and schedule symptomatic patients at Delaney Radiology, add a note for these patients in EHR and clear the encounter
- Complete an orientation program for assistants based on a carefully established procedures manual
- Upkeep cleanliness of department and mammo rooms
- Call Tech Repeat patients as needed and fill out necessary paperwork to send to lead tech
- Fill out Mammo Log with Report information when mammo imaging has been read
- Create a letter for each patient after their mammogram has been read and send to the patient
- Fill out each patient's mammo log in EHR with report information
- Follow up with patients that are Needs Additional Imaging and make sure they are scheduled and sent an updated letter after this imaging is complete
- Send a certified letter for any patient with BIR 4 or BIR 5 results and send a communication to provider confirming that a letter is being sent
- Follow up on Requests for prior imaging to make sure we receive them in a timely manner
- Order supplies as needed in PROCUREIT
- Contact Mammo Lead Tech as needed
Other Duties :
QUALIFICATIONS
Required :
Preferred :
ADA Physical Demands :
Rarely (Less than .5 hrs / day) Occasionally (0.6 - 2.5 hrs / day) Frequently (2.6 - 5.5 hrs / day) Continuously (5.6 - 8.0 hrs / day)
Physical Demand
Required
Frequency
Standing
Frequently
Sitting
Occasionally
Walking
Frequently
Kneeling / Crouching
Frequently
Lifting
Rarely
Mammography Assistant Competencies
General
Department Specific :
