Medical Assistant - Vanderbilt Nephrology - Shelbyville

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Shelbyville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a global hub for teaching, discovery, and patient care. VUMC is dedicated to fostering an environment where individuals can thrive, valuing expertise, expanding knowledge, and challenging abilities. The organization is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring employees feel part of a larger mission and take pride in their work. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. This Medical Assistant role, within Med Spec Clinical Staff, supports the licensed healthcare team in Vanderbilt Nephrology in Shelbyville. The position involves performing office examinations and procedures, managing clinic patient flow, gathering and documenting patient screening data, and assisting with patient and family education and communication. Vanderbilt's nephrology and hypertension experts specialize in caring for a wide range of kidney conditions, including genetic diseases, rare conditions, and complex medical challenges like kidney disease with multiple organ failure, offering customized care including kidney transplant preparation. Clinical and nursing support roles are central to Vanderbilt Health's goal of advancing personalized health, with a focus on mutual support and excellence. High-achieving employees are drawn to Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, benefits, and a strong sense of community and purpose.

Requirements

Demonstrates ability to anticipate basic resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for own assignments and responsibilities.
Appropriately matches equipment, and capital resources to task demands.
Prepares and presents clear and accurate status reports on projects and assignments.
Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency to assist and perform clinical care including but not limited to vital signs, phlebotomy, specimen collection, medication administration and point of care testing as directed by unit standards.
Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency with set up and maintenance of patient exam room, supplies and equipment.
Has limited experience or training working with clinical applications for patient documentation.
Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.
Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job.
Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.
Relevant Work Experience
Experience Level: Less than 1 year
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program

Responsibilities

Directs and supports patient flow as well as unit operations by maintaining supplies, equipment and unit environmental standards.
Facilitates identification of resources to meet patient healthcare needs.
Performs/assists with procedures according to organizational/departmental standards.
Collects and documents patient screening data for the healthcare team.
Assists with patient and family education.