LVN or Medical Assistant

External Brand•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Austin Regional Clinic is a growing professional medical group with more than 35 Central Texas locations. The LVN or Medical Assistant supports clinical care by documenting patient status and care, rooming patients, collecting vital signs, preparing patients for examinations, performing diagnostic tests, managing supplies and equipment, and following clinic protocols and company policies. The role also includes reviewing medication refill and triage-call in-baskets, maintaining clean and stocked patient rooms, and assisting providers with certain procedures and tests as needed. The position requires regular and dependable attendance and holiday shifts as required by company policy. LVN duties include administering medications and injections, providing direct nursing care and treatments under physician orders, educating and counseling patients and families, and completing patient follow-up related to results, diagnostics, appointments, referrals, medications, and callbacks. LVNs may also support vaccine management and immunization programs, contact patients about laboratory results, and participate in orienting new employees. Staff Medical Assistant duties include providing educational materials as directed, administering medications within the scope of practice and training, reviewing result notes, and notifying patients of normal laboratory results. The Medical Assistant also reviews provider instructions regarding abnormal results.

Requirements

LVN: High school diploma or equivalent and graduation from an accredited school of vocational nursing.
LVN: Current Texas Licensed Vocational Nurse license and current AHA-approved BLS Healthcare Provider CPR completion card; both must be maintained during employment.
LVN: Ability to perform nursing duties and practices within the scope of assigned responsibilities.
LVN: Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
LVN: Excellent verbal and written communication, customer service, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
LVN: Ability to engage others, listen, adapt responses to others’ needs, and align actions with team goals.
LVN: Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple nursing activities with frequent interruptions in a fast-paced environment.
LVN: Ability to perform duties professionally; understand, recall, communicate, and apply information and instructions; organize thoughts clearly; use common sense; and maintain attention to detail.
Staff Medical Assistant: High school diploma or equivalent.
Staff Medical Assistant: Must meet at least one of these criteria: Medical Assistant experience; CNA, EMT, PCT, or comparable direct-patient-care experience beyond activities of daily living that includes manual vital signs and administering medications and/or injections; or graduation from a Medical Assistant program.
Staff Medical Assistant: Ability to administer medications and injections within the position’s scope within 90 days of hire.
Staff Medical Assistant: AHA-approved BLS Healthcare Provider CPR completion card, or obtain it within 60 days of hire.
Staff Medical Assistant: Knowledge of medical terminology.
Staff Medical Assistant: Excellent organizational, phone-listening, customer-service, verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
Staff Medical Assistant: Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work in a team.
Staff Medical Assistant: Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
Staff Medical Assistant: Ability to engage others, listen, adapt responses to others’ needs, and align actions with team goals.
Staff Medical Assistant: Ability to perform duties professionally; understand, recall, communicate, and apply information and instructions; organize thoughts clearly; and use common sense.

Nice To Haves

LVN: Previous experience in an ambulatory or acute-care setting preferred.
Staff Medical Assistant: Six months or more of experience as a Medical Assistant preferred.
Staff Medical Assistant: Medical Assistant certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Accurately document patient status, care rendered, responses to care, provider orders, and contacts with patients or other healthcare providers.
Refill medications according to ARC refill protocols and review provider refill and medication-request in-baskets.
Review the EPIC triage-call in-basket for callbacks.
Room patients, take and document vital signs, and prepare patients for provider examinations.
Perform diagnostic testing, including EKGs, audiograms, tympanograms, spirometry, and visual screenings, and document and report results as appropriate.
Monitor and stock medical and office supplies and equipment, ensure supplies are current and unexpired, and order supplies as needed.
Clean patient rooms as needed, handle dirty laundry properly, and keep the laundry cart stocked with fresh linens daily.
Assist providers with sigmoidoscopy examinations and cardiac stress testing by setting up equipment, preparing patients, and cleaning and storing equipment afterward.
Maintain equipment, including autoclaves, and sterilize and wash speculums and check expiration dates.
Follow company policies, including OSHA, HIPAA, compliance, and Code of Conduct requirements, as well as clinic protocols and nursing-team directions.
Work holiday shifts as required by company policy and maintain regular, dependable attendance.
As an LVN, administer medications and injections and provide direct nursing care and treatments under physician orders according to accepted standards of care.
As an LVN, teach and counsel patients and families about health assessment, care, disease prevention, and health maintenance.
As an LVN, support vaccine management and immunization-program activities when assigned, including ordering and monitoring vaccine usage and wastage, maintaining vaccines, and completing recommended documentation.
As an LVN, contact patients with laboratory results and complete follow-up regarding laboratory results, diagnostics, appointments, referrals, medications, and callbacks.
As an LVN, participate in orienting new employees.
As a Staff Medical Assistant, provide educational materials as directed, administer medications within the authorized scope of practice, and notify patients of normal laboratory results after reviewing result notes.
As a Staff Medical Assistant, review provider instructions regarding abnormal results.