Overview

Certified Medical Assistant, CWHN Morristown

Full Time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift

At Women’s Healthcare of Morristown, we’re women caring for women across all stages of life – from birth control education, healthy hormone management, and annual exams to guiding you on your pregnancy journey. With more than 30 years of combined medical experience, our expert healthcare team is ready to provide you with excellent care. F or women facing a high-risk pregnancy, we partner with the perinatologists at Fort Sanders Perinatal Center. (https://www.fortsandersperinatal.com/) We’re proud to be a member of Covenant Health (http://www.covenanthealth.com/) .

At Fort Sanders Perinatal Center, we’re here for women with pregnancies that require extra care, and we’re ready to help you make the best healthcare decisions from conception through delivery. For more than 25 years, we’ve provided comprehensive high-risk pregnancy services and delivered over 26,000 high-risk babies at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. We offer a range of care services for higher-risk pregnancies, including mothers over age 35, multiples, complications, birth defects, issues such as diabetes or hypertension, or pregnancies after infertility.

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.

If you have any questions please contact Recruiter: Sarah Grey ||sgrey1@covhlth.com|| 865-374-5271

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, and other lab procedures as indicated.

• Retrieves initial basic evaluation of patient 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.

• 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 NST’s 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.

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Job Title MED ASSISTANT PC II

ID 4065584

Facility Fort Sanders Perinatal Center

Department Name CWHN Morristown