About the Role
Austin Regional Clinic is a growing professional medical group with over 35 locations in Central Texas, recognized as a top employer for over 15 years. We are seeking dedicated individuals to join our team and contribute to providing quality patient care.
Responsibilities
- Accurately report and document patient status, care rendered, response to care, provider orders, and contacts with patients and healthcare providers.
- Refill medications following clinic protocols.
- Room patients, take and document vital signs, and prepare patients for provider examinations.
- Follow clinic protocols and directions from nursing leadership.
- Perform diagnostic testing including EKGs, audiograms, tympanograms, spirometry, and visual screenings.
- Monitor and stock medical and office supplies, ensuring items are current and not expired, and order supplies as needed.
- Review provider refill requests and assist with daily medication refill requests.
- Review EPIC triage call in basket for any callbacks.
- Clean patient rooms and manage laundry.
- Stock laundry carts with fresh linens daily.
- Assist providers with procedures such as sigmoidoscopy exams and cardiac stress testing, including setup, patient preparation, and equipment cleaning.
- Maintain and sterilize equipment.
- Adhere to all company policies, including OSHA, HIPAA, compliance, and Code of Conduct.
- Maintain regular and dependable attendance.
- Follow company core competencies.
- Work required holiday shifts.
- Administer medications and injections (LVN).
- Provide direct nursing care and distribute medications and treatments under physician order (LVN).
- Teach and counsel patients and families on health assessment, care, disease prevention, and health maintenance (LVN).
- Manage vaccine programs, including ordering, monitoring usage/wastage, and completing required documentation (LVN).
- Facilitate the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the immunization program (LVN).
- Call patients to inform them of lab results (LVN).
- Perform patient follow-up activities including laboratory results, diagnostics, appointments, referrals, medications, and call backs (LVN).
- Participate in the orientation of new employees (LVN).
- Provide patients with educational materials as directed (Staff Medical Assistant).
- Administer medication under physician’s direction and within the scope of practice (Staff Medical Assistant).
- Inform patients of normal lab results (Staff Medical Assistant).
- Review provider instructions regarding abnormal results (Staff Medical Assistant).
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Current licensure as a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) in the State of Texas (for LVN role).
- Current AHA approved Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) course completion card (for LVN role).
- Maintain a current vocational nursing license and CPR certification during employment (for LVN role).
- Meet one of the following for Staff Medical Assistant: Medical Assistant experience, CNA/EMT/PCT experience providing direct patient care (beyond ADLs, including manual vitals and giving medications/injections), or graduation from a Medical Assistant program.
- Medical Assistant certification preferred (for Staff Medical Assistant).
- Current AHA approved Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) course completion card or within 60 days of hire (for Staff Medical Assistant).
- Ability to administer medications & injections within scope of position within 90 days of hire (for Staff Medical Assistant).
- Knowledge of medical terminology (for Staff Medical Assistant).
Skills
- Ability to engage others, listen and adapt response to meet others’ needs.
- Ability to align own actions with those of other team members committed to common goals.
- Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Ability to perform job duties in a professional manner at all times.
- Ability to understand, recall, and communicate, factual information.
- Ability to understand, recall, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
- Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology.
- Ability to apply common sense in performing job.
- Knowledge of all activities associated with the delivery of quality nursing practices and duties assigned to this role.
- Skill in nursing practices within the scope of responsibilities assigned to this role.
- Skill in organization and efficiency.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Excellent interpersonal & problem solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple nursing activities simultaneously with frequent interruptions in a fast –paced environment.
- Ability to have excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent phone listening skills.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
Work Type
- PRN (As Needed)
Experience Level
- Previous experience in an ambulatory or acute care setting preferred (LVN).
- Six (6) months or more experience as a Medical Assistant preferred (Staff Medical Assistant).
Education Level
- Graduation from an accredited school of vocational nursing (LVN).
- Graduate of a medical assistant program (Staff Medical Assistant).
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- PTO
- 401(k)
- EAP
- Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Child Care Assistance
- Health & Fitness
- Sick Child Care Assistance
- Development
About the Company
- Austin Regional Clinic has been voted a top Central Texas employer by our employees for over 15 years!
- We are one of central Texas’ largest professional medical groups with 35+ locations and we are continuing to grow.
