Medical Assistant

6 days ago

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States Covenant Health Full time
Job Title: Medical Assistant - Oncology Unit

We are seeking a compassionate and detail-oriented Medical Assistant to join our team at Covenant Health. As a Medical Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing exceptional patient care and supporting our healthcare professionals.

About the Job:
Covenant Health is one of the largest health systems in East Tennessee, with over 25 specialties and more than 800 employees. Our Medical Center offers cutting-edge treatments and technologies that benefit people with life-threatening aneurysms, severely damaged knee, hip and shoulder joints, sudden heart failure, and non-healing wounds.

As a Medical Assistant on our Oncology Unit, you will assist registered nurses with direct patient care, perform hands-on tasks, and provide specified technical support. Your primary responsibilities will include taking and recording vital signs, assisting patients with daily activities, and maintaining a safe environment.

Key Responsibilities:
- Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
- Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
- Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
- Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,
- Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
- Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
- Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
- Provides general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
- Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
- Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
- May perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
- May perform EKG (requires special training).
- Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
- Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
- Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
- Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
- Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
- Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
- Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside
- Ambulate patients with oxygen.
- Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.

About You:
To be successful in this role, you will need to have excellent communication skills, be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care. You must also be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation.

The estimated salary for this position is $40,000 - $60,000 per year, depending on experience.

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