Recurrent Staff - Certified Medical Assistant PRN bei Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center · Lubbock, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Onsite
- Junior
- Optionales Büro in Lubbock
Position Description
Travel Required
Pay Grade Maximum
Major/Essential Functions
The Clinical Assistant will support our mission by:
- Welcoming patients warmly with compassion and enthusiasm.
- Listening carefully to patient needs presented face to face or over the telephone and communicating clear and accurate information in response to all members of the health care team
- Implementing teaching plans for patients and their families with well-defined health learning needs.
- Reporting data, identifies and reports alterations in patient responses to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goals/ outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Working collaboratively with other health care team members to ensure patient needs are met and clinic operations are efficient.
- Communicating with patients via telephone per clinic protocols.
- Preparing and operating necessary equipment and instruments for examination, treatments and procedures.
- Assisting with or performs exams and procedures and documents intervention in EMR.
- Taking and recording accurate vital signs and measurements.
- Communicating patient data using EMR to support decision-making to improve patient care.
- Maintaining inventory of supplies in examination and procedure rooms.
- Participating in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources and facilitate continuity of care.
Assisting in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families. - Assisting Nursing Team Leader with development and implementation of clinic goals, objectives, to facilitate improved patient outcomes.
- Managing refill requests and administering medications to patients following policies and procedures for medication management.
- Completing Annual Nursing Core Competency Training and Skills Fair.
- Participating in emergency preparedness drills in department.
- Attending nursing staff meetings.
Grant Funded?
Pay Grade Minimum
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a hospital, ambulatory clinic, or community-based setting.
- CPR\BLS Certified.
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) experience.
- Experience in collecting specimens for point of care testing.
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Required Qualifications
License/Certification: Graduation from an approved certified program for assistants in the area of required specialty. Certification by an approved accredited certifying agency in the specialty that particular work will be performed.
Does this position work in a research laboratory?
Jeanne Clery Act
Introduction
About TTUHSC
Being part of the TTUHSC team means being part of an innovative and supportive community that empowers each individual to do their best work. Through our values-based culture, TTUHSC is committed to cultivating an exceptional workplace community with a positive culture that puts people first.
Benefits
- Health Plans + Supplemental Coverage Options – Individual health insurance provided at no cost for full-time team members
- Paid Time Off – Including holidays, vacation, sick leave and more
- Retirement Plans
- Wellness Programs
- Certified Mother-Friendly Workplace