Medical Assistant (Primary Care)

Come join a fun and happy primary care team! Under general supervision, the medical assistant is responsible for providing patient care services, determining medical conditions, and preparing patients for examination and treatment under the direction of the Provider.

Huge plus if you speak Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

-Prepare patients for examination, records vitals and history, and provides treatment as applicable

-Prepares exam/treatment rooms; select, setup, sterilize, and maintain medical supplies and equipment for procedures

-Prepare and administer injections, change dressings, and facilitate wound management under providers orders

-Collect blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens through routine in-house testing procedures, and analyze and prepare for testing, log results, and perform lab call-backs

-Authorize medication refills as per providers direction and provide prescription information to pharmacies

-Document basic patient care and procedures, utilizing appropriate forms and electronic medical records

-Schedule patients for tests, initial, and follow-up appointments

-Instructs patients and family regarding treatment and medication instructions

-Collaborate, take direction, and initiate actions that will allow the assumption of cross-functional team actions to ensure seamless patient care

-Phlebotomy

-Assists with direct patient care vascular procedures and related tasks – obtains patient history, assigns patient rooms, takes vital signs, prepares charts and assists with medical examinations.

-Applies dressings and removes stitches and/or staples per physician instructions.

-Assists the provider/RN in performing and documenting tests and procedures.

-Perform other duties as assigned