Medical Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Hiring for a Medical Assistant with a healthcare clinic in Flemington, NJ

Location: 1100 Westcott Drive, Suite 206/207, Flemington, NJ 08822

Pay: $20-25/hour (based on years of MA experience)

Schedule:  Full-time, days, every other weekend, no on-call, no holidays
Exact schedule to be discussed during interview

About the Role: 

• This is not your typical Medical Assistant role rooming patients, taking vitals, etc - this role is in outpatient OR working directly with the physician
• Great opportunity for a unique experience in the OR, without the hospital setting
• Assist with collecting specimen during surgical procedures, GI bleeds, handling surgical cases etc. 
• This is a fast-paced environment that may take some getting used to - typically takes about 2-weeks to get into the groove of things but lots of support from the team!

Requirements: 

• GI Technician Certification preferred
• BLS Certification
• 1 year of medical assistant experience or endoscopy/OR experience

Responsibilities:

• Assist with endoscopic procedures and patient care under the direction of RN
• Preparation of endoscopic equipment, assisting doctors and nurses during procedures, decontamination and care of endoscopic equipment and supplies
• Monitoring supplies for reordering, tracking equipment sent out for repair, maintaining decontamination room logbooks
• Coordinates the efforts of the technicians in all Ors and the Soiled Workroom and reports problems or potential problems to the Nurse Manager
• Assures correct documentation is recorded
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Ensures procedure room is set up for the day
• Set up the OR endoscopy area and decontamination room for the day
• Decontaminates endoscopy room and decontamination room surfaces between each patient and at the end of the day
• Inspects scopes and accessories daily for proper mechanical functioning before each procedure
• Leak test scopes after each procedure, before manual cleaning
• Ensures prompt and thorough room turnover, cleaning, and disinfecting of scopes and accessories
• Assists RN with patient preparation for and during endoscopy procedure
• Directs patients to changing area before procedure
• Assists the physician with biopsy specimens
• Assists with patient recovery
• Communicates patient status to appropriate health care member
• Assists to ambulate patients according to the suites policy and procedure in accordance with the physician’s orders
• Walks patients to changing area and to car when directed by RN
• Assists patients on and off stretchers
• Decontaminates stretcher and remakes for next patient
• Restocks OR, decontamination room, clean and soiled utility rooms, pre-op and post-op areas, patient changing areas, employee locker room and rest room
• Ensures adequate number of supplies on hand and anticipates future needs and orders appropriately
• Assists other health care members as needed and when asked
• Adheres to procedures, instructions, and established routines
• Reports concerns and errors to Nurse Manager
• Provide courteous service to patients, families, and staff
• Adheres to protective required wear when assisting and performing decontamination and any other time when exposure to blood born pathogens or chemicals present a hazard
• Other duties as assigned

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