Full time Medical Assistant Immediate Care Center 8a-8p Weekdays 830a-430p Weekends

Hendricks Regional Health • Plainfield, IN

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About The Position

The Medical Assistant assists with healthcare delivery and patient care management in a clinical capacity. Daily responsibilities are based on the practice’s needs. The role supports patients throughout their visits, assists physicians with testing and treatment, and helps keep clinical areas, equipment, and supplies ready for care. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Requirements

• Graduation from a Medical Assistant Program or an accredited Nursing Program, or certification or registration as a Medical Assistant. Employees hired before 2018 are grandfathered from the educational and/or certification requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care directly and through delegation, maintain knowledge of normal and abnormal parameters that may identify at-risk patients, follow applicable standards and guidelines, respond to and appropriately triage telephone calls, and provide patients with reassurance, teaching, and direction.
• Support efficient healthcare delivery throughout patient visits by maintaining accurate and updated medical records; initiating patient contact; preparing patients for examinations; obtaining vital signs, weight, age, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respirations, history, and chief complaint; communicating and documenting abnormal signs and symptoms; confirming patient understanding of discharge instructions; and entering medical-record and billing charge information in the electronic medical record.
• Assist physicians under their supervision with testing and treatment, including applying splints and dressings, following physician orders, managing sample medications and logs, arranging and administering tests or admissions, obtaining referrals, retrieving test results and notifying patients, and preparing for minor surgeries and physicals.
• Obtain appropriate consent before invasive procedures or immunizations; distribute patient education materials; assist with patient instruction and confirm understanding of treatment and medication use; perform prescribed laboratory tests and treatments; and maintain laboratory logs.
• Keep patient-care areas, equipment, and materials stocked and maintained; organize patient education materials; order and maintain clinical supplies and equipment; keep exam rooms clean and organized according to protocol; and ensure instruments are sterile and equipment is working.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed