Medical Assistant / Orthopedic Technician

Job description

Description SUMMARY: - Provides patient care support to licensed providers and serves as liaison between patient and healthcare provider. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Prepares patients for visit by directing/accompanying patients to the examining or X-ray room, providing gowns/drapes, and assisting with proper positioning of patient for the examination and/or treatment; - Interviews patient and records medical histories, may order x-rays per provider order or protocol, or obtain resuts from imaging facilities; - Assists health care providers during examinations as directed. Duties may include, but are not limited to, performing dressing changes, taking vital signs, preparing and drawing up injectable medications, labeling medications for administration by provider, applying/removing casts/splints, removing sutures/staples, preparing laboratory test requests, preparing lab specimen for pick-up per protocol; - Generates orders for prescriptions, diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation therapy, DME, etc. as directed by provider; inputs into EMR. - Schedules follow-up appointments, tests, test results, procedures, and injections with designated provider or facility. - Coordinate...