Medical Assistant II Podiatry

Essential Functions

• Takes vital signs (temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure).
• Affords assistance with patient mobility and positioning.
• Reports patient status changes to nurse/physician/physician assistant.
• Competently applies casts and splints.
• Initiates CPR.
• Communicates with patient and/or family.
• Transports patients by pushing, pulling, and lifting in a wheelchair or cart.
• Repositions patients with or without mechanical divides by lifting, pulling and pushing.
• Organizes and prioritizes work to complete daily assignment.
• Prepares rooms for procedures.
• Participates in quality assurance, assessment and improvement activities.
• Provides patient education.
• Assists with post-op dressing changes, including preparation of supplies.
• Assists provider with procedures.
• Collections patient information.
• Administers treatments.
• Prepares injections for provider.
• Administers medications according to clinic policy.
• Assists Podiatrist in the office and out of the office, at Long Term Care & Assisted Living Facilities and other locations off of the main SBA Campus.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Will be oriented to and maintain competence in working with patients in the following age categories: Infant, Pediatric, Adolescent; Adult, and Geriatric patients.

Experience

• Two (2) Years Of Medical Assistant Experience Required.
• Previous hospital employment preferred but not required.
• Podiatry experience preferred.

Physical Demands

• Job can demand constant walking.
• May require occasional sitting as well as frequent standing, bending and grasping.
• Occasionally requires lifting and carrying up to 35 lbs.
• Job requires full range of body motion, with occasional twisting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crawling, and reaching.
• Job may require reaching overhead.
• Job requires ability to handle and lift patients.
• Eye-hand coordination, and finger and manual dexterity are required.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to a normal range.
• Job requires working under stressful conditions and/or irregular hours.
• Some exposure to communicable diseases, sharps, and hazardous material is anticipated.
• Job requires potential exposure to body fluids and radiation.
• Requires the ability to distinguish letters and symbols.
• Use of office equipment such as telephones, fax and copying machines is required.
• Repetitive movements such as writing are required.