Ancillary vs prescription clerk

Differences between ancillary and prescription clerk duties and responsibilities

Ancillary example responsibilities.

• Manage the reception desk and assist answering phones, checking patients in for appointments as well as booking and canceling.appointments.
• Manage difficult or emotional patient situations, with compassion and professionalism.
• Provide patient reception, scheduling, and transcription of radiology reports with advance medical terminology training
• Provide direct patient care including lab testing, patient transport, and settling patients in after surgery.
• Collect 12 lead EKG and lung capacity tests.
• Confirm ICD-10 coding and diagnoses are valid on all orders.
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Prescription clerk example responsibilities.

• Demonstrate strong math skills in managing inmate s accounts and calmly and effectively deescalating outbursts of belligerent inmates.
• Open mail customers send in with their Rx.
• Entrust with ordering and labeling medications and operating a POS terminal register.
• Prepare confidential reports, PowerPoint presentations, correspondence, organizational charts and other documents as required.
• Count daily out of stocks using the Telxon handheld, and enter the information onto the Safeway intranet for ordering purposes.