MED ASSISTANT PC II

Overview: **Certified Medical Assistant, Fort Sanders Women's 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 patient's 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 patient's medical records. Maintains all required reports, statistics, etc. Assists with filling out lab requests and filing lab results in patient's 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.