Medical Assistant Florida

About the role

The role is available in Ambulatory Care and involves assisting with various tasks including wound care, preparing sites for invasive joint injections/aspirations, stocking exam rooms, maintaining patient care areas, obtaining and reporting vital signs, and participating in programs and huddles.

Responsibilities

• Reports changes in patient's condition to the RN or MD.
• Completes duties requesting assistance as needed.
• Carries out responsibilities in a timely fashion, requesting assistance as needed.
• Maintains a cost-effective approach to patient care.
• Maximizes efficiency and productivity.
• Performs support activities that maintain unit operations.
• Provides feedback to personnel as necessary to acknowledge and/or improve quality.
• Recognizes and reports use of costly or excessive quantity of materials.
• Exchanges appropriate and professional information with coworkers.
• Communicates when deadlines cannot be met and identifies barriers to task completion.
• Initiates emergency interventions (heartsaver) as appropriate according to unit-based standard of care.
• Provides status report of patient verbally to RN and other colleagues.
• Notifies appropriate personnel of urgent/emergent situations.
• Follows and implements established policies and procedures to ensure patient safety.
• Promotes utilization of principles of Infection Control and Standard Precautions in the performance of patient care activities.
• Immediately reports safety and security problems to the appropriate persons.
• Offers emotional, physical or spiritual support for patients and family members.
• Monitors other patients on unit during emergency situations and communicates issues to appropriate nurse.
• Completes assignments and meets deadlines.
• Uses and maintains HSS equipment, furnishings and facilities as intended.
• Assists with wound care under direct supervision of clinical privileged license personnel.
• Works cooperatively within own unit/department and with other units/departments.

Requirements

• Nursing, with outpatient experience desirable.
• Knowledge of aseptic technique, basic wound care, patient safety and patient transport techniques.
• Knowledge of communication of patient status through recording and reporting of clinical data (i.e. vital signs, pulse oximetry, height and weight), basic medical terminology.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent (G. E. D.).
• Completion of a certified nursing assistant training program.

Skills

• Good basic computer skills.

Benefits

Consistent with its commitment to provide high quality care and skilled, compassionate, reliable service to its community in a safe and healing environment, Hospital for Special Surgery provides care, admits, and treats patients and provides all services without regard to age, race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, national origin, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, veteran or military status, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law or by accreditation standards.