Medical Assistant

Job Qualifications

• American Heart Association or American Red Cross CPR or BCLS certification
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Good computer skills
• Effective customer service skills
• Social skills
• Age-specific and cultural competencies

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Provide direct services for patients, including handling patients’ schedules and organizing their flow; providing support to patients in walking, dressing, transferring, and movement to examination room.
• Take and process specimens; prepare patients for examination; and perform point of care testing.
• Support to physicians and nurse practitioners by performing various procedures.
• Take vital signs and obtain other relevant information, such as weight, height, drug allergies, current medications and recurring problems; Send instructions to patients and/or families from physician; take calls and provide important and relevant information for continuity of care.
• Perform clerical duties, including sending and receiving patient medical records; receiving hospital notes, x-ray/lab reports, and referral information.
• Make requisitions and complete forms as required.
• Manage patients’ charts to ensure that information is accurate, timely and complete.
• Write orders using the electronic medical record system and process prescription refill requests on behalf of the physician provided that ordering physician reviews and approves the prescription.
• Perform inventories, order, and stock medical items as necessary.
• Maintain logging system as needed for refrigeration of medications, point of care testing, sterilization process, crash cart, or others as needed.
• Ensure that office environment is safe, healthy and secure at all times and abide by all federal and state regulations.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to assess, coordinate and implement patient care; communicate effectively with the on-site physicians, referring physicians, nurse practitioners, and administrative staff; and ensure continuity of care for the patient so that the patient's medical needs are met.