Certified Medical Assistant Float
About the role
Certified Medical Assistant 1 Float handles patient healthcare under professionals' guidance. Tasks include record-keeping, medication administration, injections, and vital sign documentation. Provide valuable support for smooth patient care.
Specialty
Float Pool
Schedule
Monday thru Friday
About Us
Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well. Our Core Values Are We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart. We never settle by constantly striving for better. We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve. We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to help you live well no matter where you are on your journey. For full details on coverage and eligibility, visit the Baylor Scott & White Benefits Hub to explore our offerings, which may include: Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% Tuition Reimbursement PTO accrual beginning Day 1 Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.
Job Summary
Certified Medical Assistant 1 Float handles patient healthcare under professionals' guidance. Tasks include record-keeping, medication administration, injections, and vital sign documentation. Provide valuable support for smooth patient care.
Essential Functions of the Role
- Act as a versatile resource for various clinics within a designated, local area.
- Be involved in patient examination and treatment under the guidance of a physician.
- Keep treatment rooms ready for patient examination, ensuring their cleanliness after procedures and maintaining supplies.
- Absorb and accompany patients from waiting room to examination room.
- Interview patients and record information in their medical records.
- Collect medical data to help physicians assess patient health and needs.
- Prepare necessary documents and forms for each office visit.
- Check patient vital signs before exams, tests, procedures, and x-rays.
- This includes pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, weight, and height.
- Routine patient testing is required.
- Acquire and process electrocardiograms is part of the job.
- Collect and process blood and urine samples is necessary.
- Administer oral, rectal meds, vaccines as directed.
- Report any adverse reactions promptly.
- Additional duties will include the removal of sutures and staples and the changing of sterile and non-sterile dressings as required.
Key Success Factors
- Open to frequent travel to different clinics within a specified, local region to perform assigned tasks.
- Earned a medical assistant certification from an approved program, like American Association of Medical Assistants or American Medical Technologists.
- Well-versed in the critical values of secure and accurate medical administration.
- Understand the fundamentals of "five rights" - right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time.
- Record patient info following policies, regulations, and procedures.
- Familiar with HIPAA guidelines.
- Naturally observe patients' physical condition and promptly report any abnormalities to medical personnel.
- Adept at medical terminologies.
- Adequate interpersonal skills make patients feel comfortable.
- Display friendly, reassuring, and approachable demeanor.
- Comfortable taking instructions from doctors.
- Accustomed to handling medical charts and records.
- Display high regard for detail.
Qualifications
- Education: H.S. Diploma or GED Equivalent
- Experience: Less than (1) one year of experience.
- Certification/License/Registration: Basic Life Support (BLS) or obtain within (30) thirty days of hire or transfer. Cert Medical Assistant (CMA): Must be CMA from one listed Nat Cert Med Asst (NCMA) from NCCT Cert Medical Asst (CMA) from AAMA or ARMACert Cln Med Asst (CCMA) from NHA Reg Med Asst (RMA) from AMT, AAMP or AAHNat Reg Cert Med Asst (NRCMA) from NAHPCln Med Asst Cert (CMAC) from AMCA.