Certified Medical Assistant or Licensed Practical Nurse- Dermatology Clinic

Overview

Our mission is to provide the best possible care tailored for the individual health needs. We are the DERM specialists of MUSC Health and have a multidisciplinary team in which we support. Many times, we are seeing patients that have been referred from another DERM and its rewarding to be a part of a team that is making a difference in patients’ lives and within our community.

Our goal with all employees is make you an expert in DERM and enjoy the work that you do every day! DERM highly encourages all employees to pursue a specialty certification in Ambulatory.

Entity
:
Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type
:
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
:
Regular

Cost Center
: CC000392 CHS - Dermatology (RT)

Pay Rate Type
:
Hourly

Pay Grade
:
Health-24

Scheduled Weekly Hours
: 40

Work Shift
:
Day (United States of America)

• CMA Job Summary/Purpose
  :
  Under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, the Certified Medical Assistant performs multi-skilled activities to support a decentralized patient-centered approach to patient care and achieve desired outcomes.
• LPN Job Summary/Purpose
  :
  Responsible for quality patient care under the direction of a physician or licensed healthcare provider in a clinical practice. Duties to include rooming patients, taking vitals and health history, documenting in an electronic medical record, giving injections and assisting with minor procedures.

• CMA Minimum Training and Education
  :
  High school diploma or equivalent. Completion of an accredited medical assisting program with one year of patient care experience preferred. Basic computer skills required. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider. Annual competencies are required to be maintained.
  
  Possess ability to understand and implement a variety of detailed instructions in the execution of therapeutic procedures and ability to make accurate physical observation of patients. Failure to abide by MUHA policies are subject to disciplinary action, including termination. Employee must possess considerable knowledge of basic medical terminology and human anatomy; ability to understand and implement a variety of detailed instructions in the execution of complex therapeutic procedures;
  
  and ability to make accurate physical observation of patients. Must communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• LPN Minimum Training and Education
  :
  Graduation from a recognized Licensed Practical Nursing program and licensed as an LPN within the state of South Carolina or a compact state. One year of LPN experience preferred. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.
• CMA Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations
  :
  Must be certified through the American Medical Technologist (AMT) or American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) or National Health career Association (NHA) or MedCA as a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA), Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), or National Association for Health Professionals (NAHP). Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.
• LPN Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations
  :
  Licensed as an LPN within the state of South Carolina or a compact state. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.

• Physical Requirements
  :
  Ability to perform job functions while standing (Continuous); while sitting (Continuous); while walking (Continuous); climb stairs (Infrequent); work indoors/outdoors with temperature extremes (Infrequent/Continuous); reach, bend, twist, kneel, squat, pinch, and perform fine and gross motor tasks (Frequent/Continuous).
• Other requirements include ability to maintain 20/40 vision (corrected), hearing, color discrimination, depth perception, and the ability to work rotating shifts and overtime as required.

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

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