Hybrid Certified Athletic Trainer en The Bone & Joint Center

Description

The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) is responsible for utilizing the nursing process (assessment, planning, diagnosis, intervention, implementation, and evaluation) to provide care to patients.   Athletic Trainers will coordinate care, assess patients, do patient education, triage and various other interventions under the direct supervision of the Nurse Supervisor(s) and Orthopaedic physicians.   The ATC may be asked to participate in outreach activities as a representative of The Bone & Joint Center.  Our team becomes experts in mobility, pain control, communicate and motivations.  This is a full time position, Monday through Friday, 8-5.   No call, no weekends, no holidays.   The salary range is $21.50-$27.00 per hour. 

Qualifications

• Obtains, verifies, and records health history of patients

• Obtains and verifies consent forms.

• Maintains an efficient, organized clinic flow.

• Fulfills patient care responsibilities including scheduling and patient flow, assisting patients for exam preparation, charting, and relaying instructions to patients.

• Evaluate, assess and provide treatment under physician’s/Advanced Practice Provider direction.

• Prep for injections, change dressing, remove sutures and staples under provider direction.

• Casts, splints, and provide DME/brace fittings for appropriate injuries.

• Administers gait training and other therapeutic exercise to patients.

• Ensures needed surgical equipment and instruments are present in the operating room.

•  Assist surgeon with patient positioning, preparation and draping   

•  Provides instructions on home exercise programs. 

• Coordination of patient care with ancillary personnel (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Orthotics and Prosthetics, Scheduling, Radiology, Home Health, Wound Care)

• Fulfills environmental responsibilities including restocking and cleaning exam/procedure rooms to maintain infection control, cleaning sterilizer according to scheduled maintenance program and keeping appropriate records