Medical Assistant
Bethesda Health Clinic•Tyler, TX
•$15 - $17•Onsite
About The Position
The clinic medical assistant job is to help make the medical operations run smoothly. This involves working daily with the Medical providers and Clinical Director, performing various clinic and lab tests as needed and being proficient with electronic medical records. The job also includes working directly with the Spanish speaking patients to include direct translation.
Requirements
- Proficient with electronic medical records
- Customer/Client Focus
- Teamwork Orientation
- Problem Solving/Analysis
- Communication Proficiency (English and Spanish)
- Learning Orientation
- Ethical Conduct
- Stress Management/Composure
- Discretion
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- Intermittent physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping and crouching as well as lifting and supporting patients.
Nice To Haves
- Medical Assistant Certificate is preferred, but not required.
Responsibilities
- Perform the duties of a Medical Assistant in a primary care setting with assistance from volunteer nurses when available.
- Work with Spanish speaking patients –translating during clinic and taking phone messages.
- Assist the clinical Director and Medical Providers in any way to help make the clinic run smoothly.
- Prepare patients for exams, take vital signs
- Take patient medical history
- Perform simple office lab tests (i.e. urine dipsticks, pregnancy tests, glucose tests, etc.)
- Draw periodic lab tests and complete requisitions for ordered tests
- Prepare and organize exam rooms by cleaning, stocking and assisting in ordering supplies
- Perform various office procedures (i.e. EKG, Spirometry, injections, suture removal, etc.)
- Clean and autoclave medical instruments
- Assist physicians with entering patient data and orders in the computer
- Answering Spanish speaking patient phone calls
- Notify Spanish speaking patients of lab or test results
- Following protocols to refill prescriptions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
