Job Description- (30412787)

• Job Title: Medical Office Assistant
• Job Location: New York, NY 10003
• Client: NYP
• Facility: NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center
• Duration: 3 months of contract (extendable)
• Shift: 08 hrs./day & 40 hrs./ week (9:00 am - 5:30 pm)
• Pay rate: $24/hourly

Education:

• High school graduate or GED
• Hospital Experience:
• Pediatric experience

Responsibilities:

1. Assists the professional staff with the delivery of services to patients in the ED setting
|2. Provides direct patient care, and/or one to one constant or safety observation to selected patients under the supervision of a Registered Professional Nurse
3. Assists, escorts and transports patients as needed
4. Performs and assists with designated procedures, using aseptic technique as indicated
5. Assists with patients’ examinations, and performs vital signs as ordered.
6. Obtains and provides nourishment for patients
7. Provides minor treatments as directed - dressings, application of ace bandages, applications of slings and ice, pediculosis
8. Assists with application of casts and splints
9. Prepares, adjusts and teaches the use of crutches and canes as outlined by the RN/PT.
10. Is cognizant of the need for safety devices; applies or assists with application
11. Collects specimens, performs venipuncture and fingersticks for blood glucose
12. Obtains EKGs as ordered
13. Assists the healthcare team during medical, trauma, sepsis and stroke codes
14. Assists patients to get needed services by communicating those needs to the nurse
15. Communicates information to patients, families and visitors
16. Provides post-mortem care
17. Sets-up, stocks, and maintains examining rooms
18. Performs eye irrigations
19. Maintains BCLS certification as required by EMS standards
20. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned area

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $23.00 - $24.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 2 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Pediatric: 1 year (Required)
• Medical Assistant: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Required)
• Medical Assistant (Required)

Work Location: In person