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News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals!**What’s this role all about?**The Per Diem Imaging Administrative Associate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is responsible for all aspects of processing inpatient Imaging orders and helping the tech in charge, with coordinating patient flow.
The Per Diem is expected to organize, prioritize and perform work in a timely and efficient manner, within established guides, practices and procedures.
Using critical thinking skills, make judgment calls and involve the radiologist, nurse and technologist when necessary.
He/she coordinates multiple inpatient procedures, including ultrasound, vascular, mammography and nuclear medicine.
He/she schedules, modifies, reschedules, and cancels requests and coordinates inter/intra department to assist with patient flow.
He/she dispatches transportation staff and coordinates radiologist-assisted procedures.
He/she monitors incoming orders and the Inpatient worklist throughout the day for new orders, makes calls to nursing floors regarding exam time estimates, and provides exam-specific information.
This position also dispatches the portable technologists and keeps them informed of new portable requests, verifies inpatient orders, and obtains exam specific lab results.
He/she assists the technologists in maintaining the RIS open orders, using PACS as a checkpoint.
Telephone duties include taking incoming calls; triaging, screening, and forwarding calls to appropriate areas.
She/he also participates in collecting data for process improvement projects.Per Diems are assigned shifts on an as needed basis, to cover shifts when full time staff are off.
Per Diems may be asked to cover shifts on 1st and 2nd shifts.During training, this would be full time hours.
After training, would be assigned as per diem (as needed)Educational Requirements:High School/ GED required.Licensure/Certification/Registration Requirements:N/AExperience:Minimum two years of experience in a fast-paced and complex environment where critical thinking skills are necessary.Previous experience in a medical environment is desirable.Medical terminology knowledge is preferred.Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with physicians, nurses, technologists, patients and other customers and personnel of the Medical Center.Experience demonstrating the ability to handle multiple tasks, ability to prioritize and organize work, and complete assignments timely and accurately.Windows based PC experience.Ability to type a minimum of 35 WPM.Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer.
Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.