Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Answer phones as needed and triage appropriately
- Prepare rooms for the day
- Escort patients to room; prepare patients for examinations.
- Record height/weight and blood pressure for well visit; chart and graph findings
- Ask parent or patient about chief complaint and document
- Perform vision and hearing screening as necessary
- Assist doctors as needed with sick visits, as well as well-child visits, school or camp physicals, and paperwork preparation as needed
- Clean and restock rooms and equipment.
- Assist as needed with securing referrals and making specialist or test appointments
- Relay messages as may be required by physicians
- Assist at front desk as necessary with phones and filing
- Obtain blood samples if certified by finger stick or venipuncture
- Urine culture and analysis preparation
- Prepare for and run laboratory tests
- Miscellaneous as requested.
- Review insurance information, phone numbers and contact information at each visit
- Provide patient education
EHR Preparation:
- Identifies if immunization records are available, if not check online registry
- If new patient locates old records from filing (or parent)
- If new patient with no immunization records, obtains releases from parent to request records, contact previous health
- care center to obtain immunization records via fax
- Empties provider inboxes periodically throughout the day
- Schedules same day sick call and some well visits as needed during the day
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or general education degree; related work experience
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or control; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.