Medical Assistant - Per Diem
About The Position
The Medical Assistant supports registered nurses in the Pre-Op and PACU settings at the Great Sacramento Surgery Center, a freestanding, fast-paced multispecialty ambulatory surgery center that performs more than 6,000 procedures annually. Duties include patient care within the assistant’s scope of practice, housekeeping, stocking, and other needs determined by the Director of Nursing. The position is supervised by the Pre-op and PACU Charge Nurse. The Medical Assistant helps prepare patients for surgery, records vital signs, obtains urine pregnancy results, prints interval notes for charts, and assists with phone calls based on unit secretarial needs. The role also maintains clean, orderly, and stocked Pre-Op and PACU areas; cleans and remakes gurneys; manages linens; and restocks oxygen tanks and supplies. Under a registered nurse’s direction, the assistant may provide basic, limited patient care, including escorting discharged patients by wheelchair to their private cars. The role includes cost-containment practices, supply inventory reporting, miscellaneous nursing-directed duties, and other assigned duties. The listed pay rates are $20.67, $24.03, and $27.40.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Training in basic nursing assistant skills.
- Successful completion of BLS.
- Maintain awareness of patient needs, confidentiality, and professional conduct.
- Ability to push and pull occupied and unoccupied wheelchairs and gurneys.
- Knowledge of basic safety and proper body mechanics.
- Ability to assist with patient transfers, including from gurney to wheelchair and wheelchair to private vehicle.
- Ability to wear personal protective gear such as goggles, face mask, gloves, and gowns.
- Ability to tolerate marked changes in temperature and humidity.
- Ability to perform repetitive hand movements ranging from light to strong grasping and fine dexterity.
- Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Nice To Haves
- Medical Assistant certification.
Responsibilities
- Assist in preparing patients for surgical procedures.
- Print interval notes for patient charts.
- Assist with recording vital signs.
- Assist with obtaining urine pregnancy results.
- Make and answer phone calls based on unit secretarial needs.
- Keep Pre-Op and PACU nursing stations, workstations, secondary recovery areas, recliner chairs, and restrooms clean and orderly during work hours.
- Restock Pre-Op and PACU areas, including nursing stations, workstations, secondary recovery areas, recliner chairs, and restrooms.
- Clean and remake gurneys in a timely manner.
- Clean phone receivers and countertops in Pre-op and PACU.
- Terminally clean PACU gurneys, recliners, and wheelchairs weekly and document the cleaning.
- Remove soiled linens from work areas.
- Unload, sort, fold, and restock clean linens as needed.
- Provide basic, limited patient care under a registered nurse’s direction, including transporting discharged patients by wheelchair to their private cars.
- Practice cost-containment measures.
- Restock Pre-op and PACU supplies.
- Restock oxygen tanks under gurneys and the oxygen tank cart from the Medical Gas storage area.
- Report to the Purchasing Agent with an inventory list of supplies collected from the storeroom and document it, weekly and/or as needed.
- Perform miscellaneous duties under the direction of a registered nurse.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
