SBA Podiatry MA

at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado, Kansas, United States

Job Description

SBA - Podiatry Medical Assistant
Essential Functions:
1.  Takes vital signs (temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure).    
2.  Assists with activities in patient mobility and positioning.    
3.  Reports patient status changes to nurse/physician/physician assistant.    
4.  Competently applies casts and splints.     
5.  Initiates CPR.    
6.  Communicates with patient and/or family.    
7.  Transports patients by pushing, pulling, and lifting in a wheelchair or cart.   8.  Repositions patients with or without mechanical divides by lifting, pulling and pushing.    
9.  Organizes and prioritizes work to complete daily assignment.    
10.  Prepares rooms for procedures.     
11.  Participates in quality assurance, assessment and improvement activities.  
12.  Provides patient education.    
13.  Assists with post-op dressing changes, including preparation of supplies.  
14.  Assists provider with procedures.    
15.  Collects patient information.    
16.  Administers treatments.      
17.  Prepares injections for provider.    
18.  Administers medications according to clinic policy.    
19.  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.      
20.  Performs other duties as assigned.    

Qualifications:
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.   

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.