SUMMARY: This position provides professional nursing care that entails coordinating treatments for patients, obtaining prior authorizations, filing specialty claims, and billing for medications. More specifically, the infusionist is responsible for starting the IV, setting up the medication administration, monitoring the patient through the duration of the infusion and taking down the IV at the end of the infusion.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Ensure patient safety
- Maintain multiple infusion chair schedules while treating patients in a timely manner
- Establishes IV access for infusion patients
- Provides patient teaching and/or instruction of medication.
- Administers medication through IV and monitors patient throughout the infusion
- Proper and through documentation in patient’s chart.
- Collect, label and document lab specimens as needed.
- Ensure that patient chart entries are made accurately and in a timely manner; forward chart as appropriate.
- Contact grant program to order medications for the free drug program
- Pre-order medications to be infused the following week.
- Obtain (in advance) pre-certifications, PA’s and referrals when mandated by insurance company
- Checks reimbursement eligibility (in advance) for TransAct RX specialty medication program.
- Maintain adequate stock levels of medications and supplies.
- Set up and stock infusion room for daily use; keep room and equipment clean between infusions; keep cleaning schedules up to date
- Follow clinic policies for infection control in handling and disposing of infectious/hazardous waste materials.
- Keep physician informed of patient’s status and any issues that arise during the infusion.
- Obtain vital signs
- Administer medications—IM, SQ and intradermal injections
- Administer O2 when ordered by a physician
- Adhere to Quality Control Guidelines; monitoring medication refrigerator temperature, eye wash checklist, O2 checklist, AED checklist and autoclave checklist.
- Adhere to Customer Service Standards
- Knowledge of sterile techniques and sterilization process
- Perform other tasks as needed, in assistance of physician
- Must have predictable and consistent attendance
SECONDARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
- Record health history of patients; note abnormal conditions for physician
- Complete charts and charge tickets; review and verify codes for physician charges
- Care for wounds; apply sterile dressings
- Schedule patients with physician
- Demonstrate knowledge of Occupational Medicine procedures including pre-employment physical exams, appropriate lab testing and treatment of work related injuries; knowledge of appropriate referral process
- Provide discharge instructions and reinforce physician’s instructions
- Prepare patient for procedures and obtain necessary consent forms
- Collect, label, document and track lab/ biopsy specimens
- Contact patient of test results, schedule surgery and referrals as required
- Knowledge of surgical instruments sorting/cleaning /sterilization
- Accuracy in labeling and photo of patient skin conditions and download to EMR
- Knowledge of phototherapy booth/treatment/log protocol as necessary
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITES
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
