Asap-Certified Medical Assistant Jobs

Facility- Snoqualmie Valley Hospital
Location- Snoqualmie, WA 98065
Specialty- Medical Assistant
Contract:- 13 week
Shift- Days shifts-(8 hours)-(8am-4:30pm)
Pay: - $33/hr. + Benefits (401k+health insurance) _____________________________________________________________________________

• Must have active MA-R or MA-C license in Washington on DOH to be considered**

Availability Requirements: Monday- Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM. Flexibility for weekend Urgent Care shifts.
OBJECTIVE SUMMARY: Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing and coding for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by a physician.
Essential Functions
Interview patients to obtain current condition/complaint, measure vital signs, weight, and height
Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician or provider
Record patients' medical history, social history, family history, surgical history, and obtain outside medical records
Performs related work as required for several specialty doctors including but not limited to Primary Care, Psychiatry, Behavioral Health, GI, Cardiology, Physiatry, Orthopedics, Geriatrics
Collect blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing and or transport
Perform waived tests
Perform quality controls for waived test kits
Manage message in-box
Make outbound calls to patients per physician or provider instructions
Enter orders and referrals into the EMR per the physician or provider instructions
Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, and physician or provider's instructions to patients
Help physician or provider during procedures, sterile set-up
Proper instrument handling and cleaning
Performing such tasks as, EKG, venipuncture, injections, ear lavage, nebulizer treatments, pulmonary function tests, and removing sutures as directed by the physician or provider
Maintain state vaccine records via the Washington Immunization Information System
Prepare prescription refills for electronic signature by the physician or provider
Prepare paper documents for provider signature
Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies
Clean and stock exam rooms, venipuncture room, and lab
Occupational Health Tasks as assigned
Perform appropriate hand hygiene
Attends required meetings and participates in committees as requested
Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality; HIPAA
Participates in professional development activities and maintains professional affiliations
Other duties as assigned
REQUIRED EDUCATION: High School Diploma AND graduated from an accredited Medical Assistant program
PREFERRED EDUCATION: As above
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: Successful completion of a Medical Assisting externship
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: One year of on-the-job experience
ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY QUALIFICATIONS: MA-certification or MA-registration active with the State of Washington
Skills
Knowledge of the English language including meaning and spelling of words, rules, of composition and grammar
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases and deformities
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment. Work may be stressful at times. Interaction with others is constant and interruptive
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Requires full range of body motion including Lifting, bending, stooping, stretching, sitting, kneeling, and handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Involves standing and walking. Requires normal visual acuity and hearing. Requires exposure to bodily fluids. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, calculator, telephone, copier and such other office equipment as necessary.
OTHER DUTIES Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.