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Job Location:
Knoxville, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Certified Medical Assistant Fort Sanders Womens Specialists
Full Time 80 Hours per pay period Day Shift
Perinatal Overview:
Fort Sanders Perinatal Center part of Covenant Health specializes in caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. For more than 25 years the center has provided expert guidance and advanced services for complex conditions such as multiples maternal age diabetes hypertension and infertility-related pregnancies. With locations in Knoxville Morristown and Sevierville the team is dedicated to helping families make informed decisions and ensuring the safest possible outcomes for mothers and babies.
Position Summary:
Under general supervision performs basic nursing procedures on patients. Assists physicians or practitioner with examinations procedures and other processes related to direct patient care.
Responsibilities
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures objectives Quality Assessment program safety environmental and infection control standards.
- Performs basic nursing procedures such as weighing patients taking vital signs and listening to fetal heart tones. Performs venipunctures blood sugars injections and other lab procedures as indicated.
- Interviews and retrieves initial basic evaluation of patient inputs information into EMR and reports to appropriate practitioner.
- Maintains a safe comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients and families during visit; demonstrates sensitivity to patients comfort and privacy by using the AIDET fundamentals of communication.
- Assists physicians or practitioner with examinations various OB/GYN procedures and other processes related to direct patient care.
- Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and necessary equipment.
- Monitors and ensures accuracy of recording on patients medical records. Maintains all required reports statistics etc. Assists with filling out lab requests and filing lab results in patients chart.
- Inspects area daily for compliance with policies procedures regulations and standards and takes corrective action when appropriate.
- Assists with cleaning instruments and cleaning and re-stocking examination rooms on a daily basis. Transports instruments to sterile processing as needed.
- Obtains informed consent after procedure has been explained to patient.
- Demonstrates competence in performing critical skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to age-specific needs of the population served.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs current literature in-service meetings and workshops.
- Performs NSTs when required.
- Cooperates with other personnel to achieve department objectives and maintains good employee relations interdepartmental objectives and infection control policies.
- Attends meetings as required.
- Works with a positive attitude; supports a positive work environment including Teamwork within their immediate department and outside their department; Exhibits initiative daily to progress the care for our patients and the success of the department. Promotes positive relationships with co-workers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
Qualifications
Minimum Education
None specified; however must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience
Three (3) years experience as a Certified MA required.
Licensure Requirement
Certified Medical Assistant required. CPR required.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- Computer Hardware
- IT Experience
- Tcp/IP
- LAN
- Mobile Devices
- Technical Writing
- Windows
- TCP
- DoD Experience
- Operating Systems
- Remedy
- Technical Support
About Company
Covenant Health is the top-performing healthcare network in East Tennessee. Our experienced staff is ready to support your medical needs.
