Seeking a Medical Assistant for a clinic setting. Must be detail oriented, dependable, and organized MA who is able to multitask.Essential Functions:
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
- Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
- Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.
- Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Make appointments, keep records and perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices and clinics.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Position Qualifications:
- Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
- Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers' needs while following company procedures.
- Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
- Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
- Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
- Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
- Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
Skills & Abiliities:
- Education : Associate's Degree (two year college or technical school)
- Experience : One to two years related experience
- Computer Skills: Microsoft Office
- Certificates & Licenses: Medical Assistant Certification & CPR certification
Job Type: Full-timeExpected hours: 40 per weekBenefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
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Schedule:
Work Location: In person