Job Information
UINTAH BASIN MEDICAL CENTER Medical Assistant in ROOSEVELT, Utah
Medical Assistant
Responsible to Clinic Manager
Nature and Scope
- Call patients into rooms for examinations: Do weights, blood pressures, and temperatures including pulse, and respiration when needed. Review the patient's chart. Record and obtain patient's symptoms, make observations, listen, answer questions, and reassure. Obtain past medical history and family history as appropriate. Obtain or review medications the patient is currently taking and medication the patient is allergic to. Record all of the above information in the patient's chart and sign.
- Assist physicians and nurse practitioners with examinations as necessary. Lift patients on and off exam tables and into and out of wheelchairs.
- Set up for procedures to be done, for example: removal of lesions, suturing of wounds, casting of fractures, dressing of burns, and assist with these procedures.
- Generally, keep examination rooms clean, neat, and organized. Keep supplies, equipment, and instruments in place and ready for use. Clean, sterilize, or sanitize all instruments. Makeup packs for doing excisions, suturing of lacerations, and treating burns. Clean and disinfect.
- Order all medical supplies for patient care: dressings, cleansing solutions, drape sheets, table paper, splints, braces, cast materials, etc. Keep all supplies always in stock, keep instruments and equipment up-to-date and in working order, and repair or replace as necessary. Order all topical, oral, or injectable medications for stock supplies and keep them updated. Keep emergency meds updated. Replace as used.
- Hand out educational materials when able and the situation warrants. Give out specific diets as ordered by the physician.
- Remain at the clinic, available to assist the physicians until all patients are cared for.
Obtain UA's when ordered - do dip urine PRN.
Job Requirements:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Keep current BLS-C card.
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