Position Information

PRINCIPLE DUTIES

1. Maintains records of vital statistics and other pertinent patient data including medical and social histories.
2. Prepares patients for and assists with examinations.
3. Conducts specified laboratory tests.
4. Collects lab specimens, including blood, urine, stool, sputum, mucous, and skin sources.
5. Administers injections and medications, dresses wounds and incisions, interprets physicians’ instructions to patients, assists with emergency and minor surgery, and performs related tasks as directed.
6. Cleans and sterilizes instruments and equipment, and maintains stock of supplies and medications.
7. Records and develops electrocardiograms.
8. Relays messages to providers, assist providers with prescription requests, phones in prescriptions to the appropriate pharmacy once ordered and instructed to by a provider.
9. Other duties within the scope of practices as assigned by the provider and/or supervisor.
10. Employees are responsible for maintaining a thorough understanding of their role in the protocols listed below, essential to the completion of daily medical back office responsibilities.  Additionally, employees are responsible for maintaining a thorough understanding of the remaining medical back office protocols, specific to less frequent medical back office workflows, as found on the intranet.  All protocols are updated periodically and employees are expected to remain current on any updates.
    1. Protocol- Intake
    2. Protocol- Medication Reconciliation
    3. Protocol- Standing Orders for MBO Staff
    4. Protocol- Medication Orders
    5. Protocol- Pediatric Restraint & Holding
    6. Protocol- Suspected Active TB Patient
    7. Protocol- Reporting of Abuse
    8. Protocol- Teen Care
    9. Protocol- Allergy Injection
    10. Protocol- Obtaining Blood Pressure @ Nurse Visit
    11. Protocol- Vaccine Storage and Handling Plan
    12. Protocol- Vaccine Storage and Handling Plan for KVP Vaccines
    13. Protocol- Instrument Sterilization via Autoclave
    14. Protocol- Labs from Outside Provider Application
    15. Protocol- Recurring Orders
    16. Protocol- Telepsychiatry Visits
    17. Protocol- Standing Orders for Administering Seasonal Influenza to Adults
    18. Protocol- Standing Orders for Administering Seasonal Influenza to Children
    19. Protocol- Recurring Orders
    20. Protocol- In Medical Emergencies
    21. Protocol- Lab Specimen Drop Off
    22. Protocol- Patient Chaperone
    23. Protocol- Lab Controls
    24. Protocol- Potential Varicella-Varicella Infection Exposure

11. Assists with other duties or in other departments as instructed by the supervisor.
12. Acknowledges that White House Clinics strive to be a patient-centered medical home and, as such, prescribe to team-based delivery of primary care services.  Recognizes that the completion of the above listed duties illustrates the employee's role in aforementioned team-based care and accepts responsibility for being an active member of the team, including identification of quality improvement opportunities.