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Certified Medical Assistant or Medical Assistant Resident, Cancer Center - Full

Summit Healthcare, Show Low, AZ, United States


Certified Medical Assistant or Medical Assistant Resident, Cancer Center - Full Time

Assists in providing quality care for the patient population seen in the physician office. Performs all essential and secondary functions.
Records patient vitals and chief complaints.
Responsible for accurate charting of each patient chart.
Completes Electronic Health Record duties to include chart completion, buckets, and reporting.
Triage patients and assist provider with patient care.
Obtains, labels and documents specimens.
Perform EKGs, urine drug screens, SVN, and cerumen removal.
Administers vaccines, injections, and medications according to physician order and direction.
Performs venipuncture and point of care testing
Performs point of care quality testing
Set ups and maintains sterile field.
Assists providers with procedures.
Relays instructions to patients based on provider specifications
Maintains infections control and standard precautions.
Conducts and documents quality control measures.
Creates new patient charts.
Documents in real time, under the direction of the provider, in patient's charts (scribe).
Provides phone coverage, reviews messages and returns calls when needed.
Cleans rooms, work stations, and equipment as directed in policy and procedures
Order, stock and maintain medical supplies.
Educates and trains patients to include training on home monitors or equipment.
Submit requests for authorizations, referrals, and Rx refills as directed by the provider.
Relays information via phone to patients related to (but not limited to) follow up testing and procedure results, and instructions.
Displays proper etiquette and mannerisms that reflect the SHINE Behavior standards.
Promotes the Patient Safety Standards as a core value of the organization.
Covers the front office duties; schedules appointments; orders supplies.
Participates in departmental and hospitalwide informational meetings and inservices, including staff meetings, hospitalwide forums, and seminars.
Reviews department and hospitalwide policies and procedures annually.
This job involves:
Recurring work situations with occasional variations from the norm.
A moderate level of complexity.
Typical operation from established and well-known procedures.
Performance of duties under moderate direction.
This position requires operational knowledge of all equipment in most physician practice offices, including: computer, printer, scanner, fax, copy machine, phone systems, credit card terminal, and EKG machine, point of care equipment, spirometry, autoclave, centrifuge, venipuncture equipment, and EHR programs specific to physician practices. This employee must be service oriented and have excellent customer service skills, computer skills, telephone etiquette, organizational skills, multitasking skills, professional interpersonal skills, time management skills and the ability to prioritize work, and.
Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Records patient vitals and chief complaints.
Responsible for accurate charting of each patient chart.
Completes Electronic Health Record duties to include chart completion, buckets, and reporting.
Triage patients and assist provider with patient care.
Obtains, labels and documents specimens.
Perform EKGs, urine drug screens, SVN, and ceumen removal.
Administers vaccines, injections, and medications according to physician order and direction.
Performs venipuncture and point of care testing
Performs point of care quality testing
Set ups and maintains sterile field.
Assists providers with procedures.
Relays instructions to patients based on provider specifications
Maintains infections control and standard precautions.
Conducts and documents quality control measures.
Creates new patient charts.
Documents in real time, under the direction of the provider, in patient's charts (scribe).
Provides phone coverage, reviews messages and returns calls when needed.
Cleans rooms, work stations, and equipment as directed in policy and procedure.
Order, stock and maintain medical supplies.
Educates and trains patients to include training on home monitors or equipment.
Submit requests for authorizations, referrals, and Rx refills as directed by the provider.
Relays information via phone to patients related to (but not limited to) follow up testing and procedure results, and instructions.
Displays proper etiquette and mannerisms that reflect the SHINE Behavior standards.
Promotes the Patient Safety Standards as a core value of the organization.
Covers the front office duties; schedules appointments; orders supplies.
Participates in departmental and hospital wide informational meetings and inservices, including staff meetings, hospital wide forums, and seminars.
Reviews department and hospital wide policies and procedures annually.
Heavy
Exert up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects. Worker is exposed to contact with chemicals and contact with infectious fluids.
Physical motions include finger dexterity, standing, walking, stooping, crawling, talking, reaching, feeling, sitting, bending, kneeling, climbing, grasping, listening/hearing, handling, lifting up to 50-100 pounds, and repetitive motions of the hands, wrists, and feet.
This is considered a safety sensitive position.
OSHA Exposure Category 1
Involves exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues.
Qualifications

Licenses & Certifications

Required

BLS CPR AED Required
CMA Cert Medical Asst
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