Assistant, Medical

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Description WORK LOCATION: Wayne County Healthy Community - Wayne, MI 48184 POSITION SUMMARY: The Medical Assistant is responsible for a variety of medical related tasks in support of the work of the Physician and Physician Extender (PA, NP). These duties include preparation of exam rooms, electronically updating patient charts, preparing patient for visit with provider, taking and documenting vitals, assisting with exams, assisting with procedures, follow-up with patients providing instructions and education to patients, maintenance of logs, processing orders from the provider, inputting results of tests and labs in charts, making referrals providing and documenting immunizations and other duties as assigned by the Physician Extender and Medical practitioners. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Prepare patients for exams, including rooming, taking vital signs, obtaining medical history, and identifying chief complaints. - Assist providers with exams, procedures, and treatments (e.g., suture removal, ear lavage). - Administer immunizations, injections, & therapeutic treatments; document accordingly in patient records & immunization logs. - Perform point-of-care testing (e.g., glucose, urine, E...