Medical Assistant

NextCare•Elizabeth City, NC

12d

About The Position

NextCare strives to be the leader in high access healthcare, offering urgent care, occupational health, virtual health and primary care services to our patients. With offering services in eleven states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming) and over 165 urgent care clinic locations, we offer exceptional, affordable care to patients across the country. At NextCare, we constantly strive to provide you with the highest degree of caring, growth, integrity, results and teamwork. These essential core values form the foundation of our relationships with patients, customers, investors, partners and one another. Extraordinarily high-performance standards serve as critical guides for making important clinical and business decisions. The expression of these standards is evident in our behavior, our attitude, and our approach to our daily work. The product of our strict adherence to core values is the ability to harness tremendous organizational energy to achieve our goal of upholding the highest standard for quality and service within the high access healthcare. This unique combination of values, performance standards and commitment serves as the key to our success. NextCare Urgent Care is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Medical Assistant that likes the challenge of a fast pace setting and working in a team environment. We are looking for customer-friendly and passionate employees to be a part of our growing organization where patients and employees are our top priority.

Requirements

Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent
Completed an APPROVED (accredited) Medical Assistant training program.
Completed an UNAPPROVED (non-accredited) Medical Assistant training program AND a National Certification through one of the following:
American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) - administers the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) exam and certification
American Medical Technologists (AMT) -- provides the Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) exam and certification to individuals who have completed the AMT criteria
National Healthcareer Association (NHA)-administers the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) exam and certification
Completed an UNAPPROVED medical assistant training program AND was employed as a medical assistant for one (1) year or more after program completion OR must have VERIFIABLE work experience directly supervised by Provider or Physician Group for a minimum of 2000 hours or 1 year.

Responsibilities

Assists provider with exams (including patient vitals), procedures and other processes related to direct patient care under direct supervision of the Provider and within the scope of practice of a Medical Assistant.
Administers all forms of medications per policy and Provider direction and adheres to all safety protocols and procedures for medication administration.
Will perform blood draws as per direction of the Provider
May be responsible for urine collection for various testing to include employer drug screens
May perform splinting and casting
Conduct various type physicals such as sports physicals
Performs other related duties specific to urgent care such as ear lavage, wound care and oxygen administration.
Notifies the provider on duty promptly of all unusual patient occurrences including medication events on an incident report.
Promptly notifies the Clinic Manager of patient or employee safety concerns.
Follows guidelines and requirements of laboratory and clinical accreditation policies.
Must be proficient in EMR/EHR
Performs other related duties as assigned or described by Company policy.
keeping patients and families informed of wait times
monitor the flow of patients
process patients for discharge including preparing charges, collecting payment, obtaining all necessary signatures and issuing receipts.