Medical Assistant

LaSalle Corrections

129d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves performing a variety of essential medical assistant duties, including patient intake, assisting with laboratory procedures and blood draws, administering vaccines and injections, supporting office and medical procedures, and aiding in patient examinations and treatments. The position also includes medication dispensing, monitoring patient reactions, managing medication stocks, and maintaining pharmacy supplies. Specific functions involve performing routine laboratory tests, maintaining equipment, and ensuring proper disposal of biohazardous materials. The role requires a high school graduate with medical assistant training and certification, and previous experience is preferred. The working conditions involve potential exposure to diseases, handling stressful situations, and working in close proximity to others, with specific physical requirements including sitting, walking, standing, occasional climbing, computer use, and various physical movements like grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, and twisting. Lifting requirements range from occasional up to 20 lbs to rare up to 50-100 lbs.

Requirements

High School graduate or equivalent.
Medical Assistant/Certified Medical Assistant course training with certificate of graduation and proof of Certified Medical Assistant license.
Personal maturity, cooperation, ability to communicate clearly.

Nice To Haves

On-the-job training, previous experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Performs routine intake procedures such as height, weight, temperature, pulse and blood pressure readings.
Assists with laboratory procedures and responsible to give blood draws to patients.
Responsible to give vaccines and injections to patients.
Assists with office procedures.
Responsibility for assisting Nurse with triage of clients and transfer of charts to appropriate provider.
Assists medical providers with examination and treatment of patients.
Relieves other departments as indicated as time permits.
Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
Dispenses oral, inhalation, and topical medications to patients.
Observes patients for drug reactions and reports any problems to Charge nurse.
Monitors patient’s vital signs, calculate medication dosages, and stocks the medication cart.
Records what medications and dosages were given for the day.
Performs routine procedures under established protocols including phlebotomy and electrocardiograms.
Manages and maintains pharmacy stocks of medicine and medical supplies.
Practices safety, environmental and infection control methods.
Obtains routine temperature, pulse, respiration, height and weight as well as blood pressure readings at first encounter.
Responsible for assisting with maintenance of medical and laboratory equipment and for assisting with quality controls on laboratory equipment.
Responsible for routine laboratory procedures including but not limited to various dipsticks, urinalysis, hematocrit, glucose screening, gram stains, and other procedures as approved by health center policies and Jail Standards.
Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.
Dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies.
Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
Dispose of blood or other bio-hazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies.
Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods.
Enter patient, specimen, insurance, or billing information into computer.