What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) / LPN position at Community Health Center of Fort Dodge, Inc?
Job Description
Job Description
As a CMA or LPN, you will be responsible for the day-to-day functions of a clinical support staff member including duties such as rooming patients, obtaining vitals, performing blood work and give shots and vaccinations as necessary. Support staff are also responsible for making patient calls as well as calls to pharmacies, other doctor's offices and performing prior authorizations.
Duties include but are not limited to :
- Completes intake interview and obtain all vital signs according to established procedure
- Prepares patients for examinations consistent with the purpose of the appointment
- Assist providers with exams of patients or any special procedures
- Perform screenings per provider guidelines and assisting provider / nurses with various procedures
- Perform supervised laboratory procedures approved by the Laboratory Director
- Clean and stock rooms, disinfect exam room tables, treatment, and lab surfaces daily
- Prepare and sterilize clinical instruments. Review expiration dates for sterilized equipment and re-sterilize equipment as needed to ensure a readily available supply of sterile instruments
- Review current meds, determine if medication sheet accurate and update medication sheet as appropriate.
- Obtain authorizations for drug refills, telephone prescriptions to pharmacies, document in chart
- Performance of screening tests including vision, audiometry, tympanometry, and EKG, pulse OX, peak flow meter at the direction of the provider
- Administer treatments including, nebulizer, oral medications, pediatric and adult vaccines at the direction of the provider
Qualifications :
Community Health Center is committed to fostering, cultivation, and preserving a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Our human capital is our most valuable asset. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, invitingness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.
We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
Working hours are variable to include some evenings Monday-Friday.
