Medical Assistant

Job Description
Medical Assistant
Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.
Basic Skills

• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Social Skills

• Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Teaching others how to do something.
• Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Complex Problem Solving Skills

• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Technical Skills

• Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

System Skills

• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Resource Management Skills

• Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Desktop Computer Skills

• Databases - Using a computer application to manage large amounts of information, including creating and editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information.
• Graphics - Working with pictures in graphics programs or other applications, including creating simple graphics, manipulating the appearance, and inserting graphics into other programs.
• Internet - Using a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations.
• Navigation - Using scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.
• Presentations - Navigating the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail (e-mail).
• Spreadsheets - Using a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.
• Word Processing - Using a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents

Task

• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
• Prepare medications as directed by a physician.
• Log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
• Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
• Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
• Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones, taking dictation, or completing insurance forms if needed.
• Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic if needed.
• Schedule appointments for patients if needed.
• Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
• Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission if needed.

Work Activities

• Assisting and Caring for Others
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Getting Information
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Interacting With Computers
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

Detailed Work Activities

• Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
• Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
• Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
• Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.
• Clean medical equipment.
• Immunize patients.
• Clean patient rooms or patient treatment rooms.
• Collect biological specimens from patients.
• Conduct diagnostic tests to determine patient health.
• Dispose of biomedical waste in accordance with standards.
• Explain technical medical information to patients.
• Give medications or immunizations.
• Interview patients to gather medical information.
• Inventory medical supplies or equipment.
• Operate medical equipment.
• Perform clerical work in medical settings.
• Prepare medical instruments or equipment for use.
• Prepare patient treatment areas for use.
• Record vital statistics or other health information.
• Schedule patient procedures or appointments if needed.

Tools

• Hypodermic needle
• Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
• Intradermal needles
• Intramuscular needles

• Mercury blood pressure units
• Manual blood pressuring measurement equipment
• Baumanometers

• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Opthalmoscopes
• Otoscopes

• Body plethysmographs
• Plethysmographs

• Butterfly needles
• Butterfly needles

• Canes or cane accessories
• Canes

• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Crutches

• Electronic blood pressure units
• Electronic blood pressure measuring devices

• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
• Electrocautery equipment

• Arterial blood gas monitors or accessories
• Arterial blood gas monitoring equipment

• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
• Gait belts

• Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use or accessories
• Mayo stands

• Laser printers
• Laser printers

• Medical acoustic stethoscope or accessory
• Mechanical stethoscopes

• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Oxygen tanks

• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Oxygen masks

• Medical staple or clip removers
• Staple removers

• Medical suction or vacuum appliances
• Wound vacuum
• Snap vacuum

• Medical syringe with needle
• Syringe needles
• Tuberculin syringes

• Medical syringe without needle
• Syringes

• Notebook computers
• Notebook computers

• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Oxygen equipment

• Personal computers
• Personal computers

• Scanners
• Scanners

• Specimen collection container
• Culturettes

• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Autoclaves

• Suture removers
• Suture removers

• Tongue depressors or blades or sticks
• Tongue blades

• Tablet computers
• Tablet computers

• Walkers or rollators
• Walkers

• Wheelchairs
• Wheelchairs

Technology

• Medical software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Database software
• Microsoft Access

• Electronic mail software
• Microsoft Exchange
• Email software

• Office suite software
• Microsoft Office
• Business software applications

• Operating system software
• Microsoft Windows

• Spreadsheet software
• Spreadsheet software
• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software
• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

• Calendar and scheduling software
• EMR Appointment scheduling software
• Outlook calendar

• Categorization or classification software
• EMR software

• Document management software
• IDX Systems Patient Chart Tracking

• Internet browser software
• Web browser software

• Network conferencing software
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS

• Project management software
• Microsoft SharePoint

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.00 - $23.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16 - $23