Essential Functions:
- Sets up exam room and prepare patient for appropriate exam
- Utilize population management tool (i2i) to print huddle reports for each daily huddle. Add patients to Tracking Types as indicated
- Communicate as needed with Case Management and Nurse Care Managers in pre-visit planning for provider sessions
- Track referrals for assigned providers, and follow up on test results; i.e.; lab results, ultrasounds, x-ray’s, MRI’s
- Participate in weekly planned care team meetings
- Assist in care management and support of defined patient populations
- Checks patient vital signs, obtains medical history, HIV risk assessment and rapid screening, depression screening, standing lab orders and chief complaint
- Provides health screenings as ordered by the provider, i.e., vision screening, auditory screening, EKG, urine dipstick, finger-stick glucose and cholesterol readings
- Drapes patients with covering and positions instruments and equipment
- Assists providers during exams as directed; i.e.; wound care; application of ace bandages, splints, slings, ear irrigation; Implanon and IUD insertions/removals; assists with vaginal exams and cultures; colposcopies, etc., and performs other first-aid procedures
- Administers medications and vaccines, as ordered by the provider
- Provides appropriate patient education and counseling
- Maintains patient records and related forms
- Performs routine or special cleaning of rooms and supplies daily following appropriate Infection Control guidelines
- Dispose of contaminated supplies and bio-hazardous materials according to OSHA and other regulatory standards
- Assists in maintaining inventories. Report when supplies are low or expired
- Performs quality control checks and document; i.e., refrigerator/ freezer temperatures; Accu-check and cholesterol calibrations; incubator and hematocrit monitoring; pregnancy and urine test supply checks; etc.
- Participates in outreach/or community education programs
- Implement cardiopulmonary resuscitation and obstructed airway techniques as need
- Phlebotomy and collection of other lab specimens
- Prepares and distributes correspondence, distributes and processes mail
- Communication skills using appropriate medical terminology
- Following appropriate legal and ethical professional conduct. Performs other duties as assigned
- Safeguards patient confidentiality at all times