What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Evergreen Family Medicine?
Evergreen Family Medicine is a Drug Free Workplace. All candidates that are offered employment will be required to pass a pre employment drug screen and background check.
Fast growing Patient Centered Primary Care Home seeking a Medical Assistant to be a key player in our commitment to giving patients the best experience possible while providing them with the highest quality care.
We offer on the job training and seminars for employees who would like to further their career and obtain their CCMA. After a year in the position, and completion of seminars & training, Evergreen Family Medical will pay for employees to take the CCMA exam and become certified medical assistants.
Essential Functions:
- Room patient for provider
- Take vitals, check meds and patient history
- Set up paps
- Clean rooms
- Assist with surgical procedures; set up room, stitch removal, ear wax removal, injections, assist with circs and other surgical procedures
- Set up and complete EKG’s and NEB tx/spirometry
- Complete lab procedures; quickstrep, mono, hemacult, UA dips, and prepare labs for send outs
- Monthly QA’s; record daily temps of refrigerator
- Clean utensils and be able to operator autoclave
- Give immunizations and complete proper paperwork
- Weekly order & stock supplies
- Triage calls and make appropriate call backs for provider
- Complete medicine refill requests and fax or call in when needed
- Set up mammograms and dexa appointments
- Set up US, CT, MRI, Stress, Echo Testing, etc.
- Complete patient notification for normal lab & x-ray results
- Calling lab, etc. for results
- Scheduling appointments only if requested by doctor
- Know and be able to use ICD-10 coding on labs & diagnostics
- Call drug reps; check on drug supplies and expiration dates
- Be available to be flexible in your work hours
- Other duties as directed by your manager
Duties & Skills:
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Administer medications accordingly as directed by the provider
- Assess patient needs and document accurately
- Set priorities for nursing action in a sequence according to patient needs
- Communicate with the provider and other nurses and team members to ensure the patients well being
- Teach patient appropriate health information and share written informational material
- Maintain a clean, neat and safe work environment for patient and staff according to policy and procedures
- Participate in economical utilization of supplies
- Ensure equipment is maintained in a safe and clean manner
- Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of EFM
Full Time Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Life insurance, 401K
