Address
Form of work
SalaryOverview
Languages
English
Education
- College/CEGEP
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
- Assist during assessment of patients and carry out treatment programs and develop materials for use with patients
- Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and/or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
- Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
- Operate ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments, record test results and administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
- Perform various administrative functions
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Administer budget
- Administer evaluative tests and procedures
- Supervise technical and support staff
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Select appropriate exercises, apparatus and manipulations
- Remove casts, sutures and pins
- Record information about donors
- Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
- Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
- Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
- Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
- Plan physiotherapy programs
- Perform general clerical duties
- Order and purchase equipment
- Order supplies and equipment
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Maintain inventory of equipment
- Maintain supplies
- Maintain clinical and progress reports
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Label and process donated blood
- Hire and train staff
- Confer with other health professionals
- Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
- Conduct research in physiotherapy
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Collect statistics
- Clean and dress wounds
- Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
- Assist health care professionals
- Assess patients' physical abilities
- Assist chiropractor with patient health education
- Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
- Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
- Maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
- Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
- Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
- Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
- Organize and maintain inventory
- Monitor donors throughout procedure under supervision of a registered nurse
- Record vital signs
- Teach and/or supervise exercises to patients
- Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
- Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
