Clinical Educator - CMA​/RMA​/LPN​/RN; Northern Region

Job : A24-072

Location:

Cheboygan (Flexible Northern Region Location)

Established in 1978, Alcona Health Center (AHC) is a non‑profit, Federally Qualified Health Center dedicated to making a lasting impact in the Northern MI communities we serve, offering medical, behavioral health, dental and pharmacy services. As a member of the AHC family, you will join a team of over 300 coworkers, all devoted to providing quality health care to all residents of our communities, regardless of their ability to pay.

Teach, support, counsel, coach, evaluate and serve as a role model for new Medical Support Staff (MSS) team members. Train and support current MSS. Perform MSS job duties when needed.

• Clinical Educator
• Facilitate and help new and current medical support staff meet the essential functions of the job, understand AHC practices, policies and procedures and meet personal and practice objectives.
• Demonstrate, teach, and observe/supervise students in clinical activities to develop the students’ knowledge and skills and to ensure proper patient care. Fully assimilate students into the full schedule of clinic activities and provide/arrange a variety of patient encounters necessary for an appropriate learning experience.
• Serve as a resource by guiding new and current team members to appropriate resource materials and management when appropriate.
• Guide and assist new clinical team members in the integration into the health center culture and environment.
• Nurture, support and guide new and current team members through training and mentoring.
• Monitor time management and productivity of new and current team members.
• Monitoring student educational progress and supervise student activities. Actively participate in the evaluation of all aspects of the student’s clinical skills and knowledge base. Review and sign all student notes and competencies.
• Provide valuable formative and summative feedback from the training and mentoring process.

• Supports and assists clinical providers and professionals.
• Participate in huddles with provider and care team. Identify scheduling opportunities, determine special needs for patients arriving that clinic day, identify patients who need care outside of their scheduled visit, and those with missed appointments needing rescheduling.
• Screen and respond to patient phone messages in a timely manner according to health center guidelines, collaborate with provider, act on provider response, and communicate with patient; document task communications in EMR.
• Provide complete patient assessment, including consistently and accurately gathering information such as vital signs and pre‑examination procedures. This also involves the assessment of injuries or symptoms, learning about past medical problems of the patient and other pertinent facts the provider needs to identify and treat the medical problem.
• Accurately and consistently document data and assessments in the patient record. May use a computer system and information technology to ensure standard documentation, coding, and completion as required by law and policy.
• Reconciles patient’s medications and allergies at every visit. Adds medications to the medication module, discontinues medications from the medication module with provider’s knowledge and renews medications per provider orders. Updates allergy list per patient self‑report, witnessed reaction or verified documentation. Ensures medication dates are updated to match the current year.
• Within scope of practice and direction of the provider, assist in all aspects of patient consultation, treatment, procedures, and follow‑up care.
• Execute medical regimens, including MSS workflow and monitoring inventory, and nursing interventions, including tracking patient orders, as appropriate for the setting and their competency.
• Maintain the cleanliness and general appearance of work, examination, and treatment areas; clean, disinfect, sterilize, and maintain equipment and instruments following universal precautions, infection control and hazardous waste removal practices.
• In collaboration with the provider, provide patient health counseling and instruction.
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