Certified Medical Assistant

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Job : 292281
Location: Augusta University
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Recruitment Period: Until Filled

Provides supervised health care services to patients and performs a variety of administrative and clinical support duties related to the Student Health clinic operations. This includes performing laboratory tests, medication and immunization administration, supporting patient clinical appointments from access of care to discharge, performing immunization compliance functions, following blood‑borne pathogen exposure protocols for students, documenting patient information accurately, and providing patient education on a wide variety of healthcare topics all within the scope of practice for a Certified Medical Assistant.

• Patient Care: Provide patient care including rooming patients, measuring vital signs, taking chief complaints, venipuncture, injections, immunizations, dressing changes, performing CLIA‑waived in‑house testing, setting up and assisting providers during sensitive exams and all office procedures, maintaining rooms by established infection control principles, and providing education and guidance on health topics and immunizations. Schedule appointments as needed, check patients in and out of appointments, answer telephone calls and assist callers with needs, communicate with administrative and clinical staff on health‑related topics, and work within best practices as established in the healthcare industry.
• Documentation: Document patient care in electronic health record, including lab results from testing, direct and indirect patient care, progress notes, consents, scanning and attaching documents, completion of residency/rotation forms and patient notification of laboratory results after review by ordering provider.
• Safety and Quality Processes: Participate in clinic safety and quality processes, including cleaning examination rooms, monitoring inventory supplies/equipment/medications to determine when orders need to be placed, checking equipment for use, and documenting within Microsoft Word and Excel inventory, clinic processes and education/training.
• Additional Duties: Duties as assigned by clinic leadership, including outreach events, divisional events and engagement opportunities, staff education and peer review.
• Other: Perform all other duties as assigned.

High School diploma, GED or equivalent from a recognized state or federal accrediting organization with a minimum of two years of experience in administrative and clinical support within an outpatient primary setting and a CCMA‑Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Credential, AAMA‑American Association of Medical Assistant, Med Ca Medical Career Assessment, RMA/NCMA Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) Credential, or NCMA‑National Certified Medical Assistant (NCMA) Credential Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant (NCRMA) Credential.

Must possess a current American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS/BCLS certification.

Experience working supervised in an outpatient healthcare clinic among a multidisciplinary team of staff and providers, using an electronic health record for documentation and e‑prescribing as a provider agent. Experience in recognizing emergent symptoms of patient decompensation/instability and…