Job Summary: Join a compassionate clinical team dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care and health management in a dynamic rheumatology practice. Your daily tasks will adapt to the evolving needs of the clinic, ensuring personalized and attentive service.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide direct and delegated patient care, recognizing normal and abnormal health indicators to identify at-risk patients. Deliver care aligned with established standards and guidelines.
• Respond promptly to telephone inquiries, triaging calls appropriately while offering reassurance, clear education, and guidance to patients.
• Facilitate smooth healthcare delivery during patient visits by ensuring medical records are accurate, complete, and up to date.
• Prepare patients for examinations by obtaining vital signs such as weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and gathering medical history and chief complaints.
• Observe and communicate abnormal patient signs to the physician, documenting findings thoroughly in medical records.
• Ensure patients understand physician instructions upon discharge and accurately document all medical entries and billing information in electronic records.
• Assist physicians with testing, treatment procedures, splint and dressing applications, and minor surgeries under supervision.
• Manage sample medications and logs, coordinate patient testing and admissions, obtain referrals, and retrieve test results to notify patients.
• Obtain necessary consents before invasive procedures or immunizations and distribute educational materials to support patient understanding of treatments and medications.
• Perform laboratory tests and maintain laboratory logs as prescribed.
• Maintain clinical care areas by stocking supplies, organizing patient education materials, ensuring exam rooms are clean and orderly, and verifying that instruments are sterile and equipment functions properly.
• Perform additional duties as assigned to support the practice’s smooth operation.

Education and Experience Required:

• Graduation from an accredited Medical Assistant Program or an accredited Nursing Program.

Work Shift: 8:00am – 4:30pm

Location: Serving patients in a regional healthcare setting within the Midwest United States.