What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Scribe position at Rockhill Orthopaedic, PC?
Rockhill Orthopedics Certified Medical Assistant/ Medical Scribe
Position Description: The candidate is responsible for ensuring efficient flow of patients through the health care setting by facilitating examination and treatment of patients in a culturally sensitive manner with exceptional customer service; contributes to patient care by preparing patient for visit, performing limited procedures, scheduling diagnostic test or consults, maintaining patient records, organizing clinic/exam rooms, maintaining supply/equipment inventory, and/or assisting physicians, other medical staff, nurses, other interdisciplinary team members and support staff. This position is full time at our Lee's Summit location.
Qualifications:
Education: Certified Medical Assistant
Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Medical Assistant or Scribe
Job Duties:
- Experience as a medical scribe-entering both internal and external orders
- Entering vital signs, patient medical histories, allergies, medications, etc. into EMR
- Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- Accurately schedules radiology tests; obtains films and reports; and prepares laboratory specimens according to policy.
- Assists physicians and/or mid-level providers with special procedures and examinations as defined on competency checklist.
- Answer patient phone calls
- Demonstrate home exercises
- Assist with DME
- Assist with cast/splint removal, suture removal and/or dressing changes as needed, dependent on patient daily demand.
- Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of examination rooms; stocks assigned areas and ensures par levels of supplies are maintained.
- Any other job duties that might be requested by the doctors or management to help the office run efficiently.
Personal Characteristics: The candidate must be able to work with a variety of providers, in the healthcare setting. The candidate must be a detail-oriented person, who is proficient at entering patient obtained information into the medical record. Candidate must be able to function in a team setting, be detail oriented, computer literate and possesses excellent customer service skills.
Expectations of All Employees:
- Provide exceptional service to all our patients.
- Exhibit professionalism and ethical behavior always.
- Maintain OSHA and HIPPA regulations.
- Maintain strict confidentially of patient information and business within the organization’s policies.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures for our organization.
- Treat everyone with respect, courtesy and friendliness.
- Provide additional duties as may be assigned.
Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The above statements are not to be constructed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills or duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be accurate reflections of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (i.e. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs, or technological developments). This document does not create an employment contract and employment is “at-will”.
