Practice Assistant- IL- Dental Institute

About the role

The Practice Assistant in the College of Dental Medicine – Illinois (CDMI) assists the dentist and student dentist with examining and treating patients. The Practice Assistant in the Dental Institute is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the CDMI’s clinics, including coordinating materials, equipment, and supplies; answering patient phone calls; scheduling patient appointments; and retrieving and relaying patient phone messages to students and faculty.

Responsibilities

• Model and ensure professional and collegial behavior
• Maintain a positive working environment
• Provide an environment of high-quality, open, and respectful communications
• Participate in the cycle of equipment, instruments, and supplies
• Deliver instrument carts to student dentists within the various suites
• Check out the equipment, instruments, and supplies for the student dental provider
• Check the used instruments and equipment back in
• Deliver instrument carts with used supplies back to the sterilization room and return used instruments
• Schedule and confirm appointments with the goal of optimizing clinic utilization
• Review various student schedules, reports for patients with overdue appointments, and proactively facilitate the clinic schedule
• Report malfunctioning equipment to appropriate personnel
• Identify and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry
• Facilitate the daily working of the radiology clinic and assist the radiology faculty
• Work with student dentists, staff, and faculty to assure adherence to all clinic policies and regulatory requirements such as infection control guidelines, OSHA standards, and HIPAA privacy and security protocols
• Provide information on violations of clinic policies to the management
• Dispel and report general maintenance problems
• Assure presence of necessary materials
• Request and maintain the materials and supplies necessary for day-to-day operation
• Assure adherence to all clinic policies, including infection control guidelines
• Coordinate instrument, equipment, and supply coordination
• Receive, greet, and prepare patients for treatment
• Acquire digital radiographs, intra-oral, extra-oral, and Cone beam computed tomography
• Assist dental students with the acquisition of the above dental radiographs
• Oversee and demonstrate the correct radiographic technique to dental students and Practice Assistants in the Dental Institute
• Assist dental students in planning and ordering a lab-fabricated surgical guide
• Maintain sterilization and disinfection of radiology instruments and equipment
• Import outside radiographs into the patient's electronic chart
• Assist with dental operatory equipment infection control
• Assist dental students and outside candidates with acquiring radiographs for dental board exams
• Assist with training employees
• Record-keeping of radiation dosimetry