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Job Description Locate a job description a popular website job seekers. (Medical assistant license vocational nurse) Analyze job posting selected. Consider criteria: • How determine create a job position business? • What strategy outline position's details? • What duties ? • What performance requirements position ? • What preexisting knowledge skills required position? Rewrite job posting chosen.

Option 3: Rewriting a job description

Take Care Health Systems at Walgreens Health and Wellness division is currently in search of a medical assistant. Its job advertisement begins with a lengthy introduction to the company and the services it provides: "We operate on-site employee health centers, pharmacies and fitness centers for many of the country's largest corporations and federal agencies." Then Take Care provides a description of the position it needs to fill (a PRN Medical Assistant), the hours required to work and the candidate's responsibilities.

These responsibilities include the need to "provide prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to [the] ill or injured client employees as directed by a physician, advanced practitioner, or registered nurse;" interviewing and taking the vital signs of patients; and administering medication. There are also general supportive functions such as assisting "with patient examination as needed" and "maintaining medical equipment, keeping exam rooms properly supplied and ready for patients.
" The assistant must also "interact with patients and other physician offices to assist with follow up, appointments, questions, etc."

Given that a new job position should only be advertised when there is a clear 'need,' job advertisements must be specific so the candidate is clear about the needs at the organization and whether he or she can fill them. The medical advertisement description of responsibilities is fairly comprehensive even though it is somewhat broad and nonspecific in terms of all of the duties expected of the candidate. The list is also in no particular order in terms of the most important to least important duties, and the descriptions are rather verbose. However, given that the duties may change over time or vary with patients, the author of the advertisement did not want to be or could not be too specific about every single duty the medical assistant was expected to perform.

The job description also lists the positive intangible benefits to make the position seem attractive: "While working at this large employer site, you will have the ability to get to know your patients, while helping to improve their health status and taking care of their immediate health needs," as well as notes that it offers competitive wages.....

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