Job Description
- Licensed physicians, nurses, pharmacists, lab techs, and health educators are needed to provide chronic and acute care.
Key Responsibilities
- Physicians-
- Provide care for patients
- Complete exams
- Write prescriptions if needed
- Nurses-
- Provide care for patients
- Pharmacists-
- Fill prescriptions
- Counsel patients about prescriptions
- Lab Techs-
- Run necessary lab work
- Document lab work
- Health Educators-
- Provide diabetes education programs
- Inform clients how they can live a healthy lifestyle
Skills Required
- Need to be licensed (active)
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
Training Required
- All positions- volunteer orientation- RSVP registration
- Licensed physicians- orientation with medical director
- Nurses- two hour training
- Pharmacists- shadowing
- Lab Techs- three part training
- Health educators- individual training
Days and Hours of Operation
- Physicians, Nurses, Lab Techs, and Health Educators
- Monday – Thursday
- 9:00am – 12:00pm
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm
- 5:00pm – 9:00pm
- Monday – Thursday
- Pharmacists
- Monday-Thursday
- 6:00pm-9:00pm
- Monday-Thursday
Contact
A Note From Our Medical Director
Clinical volunteers at the Open Door Clinic are usually providers comfortable delivering continuity-based primary care services to our relatively stable population of low-income patients. Though they have long clinical problem lists, they are customarily not disabled, not elderly, and not pediatric, because they would otherwise qualify for governmental insurance (and be ineligible for our free services),
Our chosen clinical mission is both visit- and prevention-focused, based on widely accepted guidelines for specific disease-state and health maintenance. Virtually every patient’s visit involves ongoing clinical monitoring and continuing care. After a session as volunteer provider, our clinicians have no residual responsibilities until their next volunteer session. Evaluations initiated at volunteers’ appointments are handled conscientiously by staff, including management and reporting to patients of all results from lab, radiology and consultation events.
Our pharmacy provides virtually universal access to prescription therapies (including on-going refills), but does not permit clinical management of DEA-Scheduled pharmaceuticals or potentially abusable meds. Clinical solutions for resource issues are usually available, including comprehensive labs, radiology, extensive consultation availability and required immunizations.
Patients’ visits to the clinic are as long as the providers feel they need to be. We do not operate on a productivity-driven time-clock, recognizing that patients’ needs are variable and often compellingly complex.
Most providers participate on a fixed monthly schedule (eg Third Thursday evening). Especially those in retirement or family-leave, weekly participation is even more engaging and gratifying, and daytime clinics more energizing.
