LPN/MA

OZARKS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

DEPARTMENT: Clinic

POSITION TITLE: MEDICAL ASSISTANT/LPN ROOMING NURSE

Non-Exempt

OZARKS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER MISSION

To provide greater access to quality, compassionate, and professional healthcare through our comprehensive health system and community partnerships.

DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVE

To operate a medical clinic to meet the needs of the residents of the community.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education & Training

• High School diploma or equivalent with on the job training and demonstration of competency
• Must pass annual competencies

Licensure & Certifications

• CCMA, LPN or other licensed professional required
• Healthcare Provider CPR within 6 months of employment
• HazMat Awareness (Extended) within 3 months, renewed annually

Experience

• Health care experience preferred

Reporting

• Reports to: Clinic Manager
• Supervises: None

JOB SUMMARY

Performs daily functions related to providing care to patients of the community; actively and consistently contributes to department operations and communication; behaves in a manner consistent with mission of OCHC and performs other duties as requested.

MEDICAL ASSISTING DUTIES:

• Takes vital signs and documents all information correctly.
• Gathers and documents initial patient subjective date, reason for visit, and uses correct template for visit.
• Reviews, corrects, and updates all clinical medical information.
• Ask all pertinent questions for quality measures as required and documents correctly to ensure quality QI data.
• Promptly assists provider in patient care as requested (shots, x-rays, lab).
• All patient exam/procedure rooms are cleaning in compliance with OCHC Infection Control policy and in a timely manner.
• Stocks rooms and pulls expired supplies.
• Maintains inventory of supplies need for duties.
• Receives and handles patients’ medical related telephone calls, relaying information to patients/ others as directed by provider, documenting in the medical record information relayed.
• Obtains consent for procedures when rooming, sets out all supplies needed, returns to room for clean-up promptly.
• Answers the nurse line promptly and handles nurse only visits quickly and documents/completes notes in a timely manner.
• Vaccine/shots are documented properly according to protocol.
• Maintains competency on vaccine/shots per protocols.
• Monitors assigned providers task list and completes in a timely manner.
• Uses correct procedures for sterilizing instruments and ensures sufficient supplies are available for procedures.
• Makes good use of downtime by completing open tasks for other providers, clean work areas, stock rooms and pulls expired supplies and meds, works downtime list.
• Ensures EKG quality by using protocol and confirm test results interface in patients chart and reports issues to Clinic Manager or RN Nurse Educator.
• Review and understand policies/protocols and adheres to them.

LAB DUTIES:

• Ensures lab requisition is printed, verifies patients name and date of birth, draws all requested lab using correct tubes and ensures test are completed within time allotted.
• Ensures lab results interface with EMR.
• Works the Lab worklist daily to ensure all labs are processed/resulted and check on ones that are not completed.
• Is responsible for reporting urgent/critical lab results to the provider and patient follow up in a timely manner.
• Follow the Laboratory’s P/P for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
• Performs and maintains records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
• Adhere to the Laboratory’s quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
• Follow the Laboratory’s established corrective action P/P whenever test systems are not within the Laboratory’s established acceptable levels of performance.
• Completes all proficiency testing in lab to maintain the ability to work in OCHC’s labs.
• Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and corrects the problems or immediately notifies OCHC Laboratory personnel.
• Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the Laboratory’s established performance specifications.
• Reads and documents all temp logs in include; vaccine fridge/freezer, lab fridge and room temp.
• Completes lab only visit in a timely manner with correct documentation including the ordering provider.

X-RAY ASSISTING DUTIES:

• Completes x-rays according to the order and per over read protocol.
• Ensures X-ray interface with chart.
• Reviews x-rays on PAC’s machine and documents performed by.

Salary is based off no experience. Compensation is evaluated based off years of experience.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.50 - $33.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Clinic

License/Certification:

• LPN/MA (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $17 - $33