Medical Assistant Duties and Responsibilities
Purpose of Classification:
Assists
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Nurses in the examination and
treatment of clients at the Student Health Center. The majority of
duties performed are in client rooms and medically related.
Distinguishing Characteristics:
This is
a specialized class and not part of a series.
Examples of Duties:
- Interviews clients to obtain health history and checks
pulse, temperature, blood pressure, weight, height, vision and
hearing and records on client’s chart.
- Assists clinicians in therapeutic procedures such as
dressing wounds and applying and removing casts.
- Inventories and requisitions supplies.
- Assists clinicians with exams and minor surgeries; prepares
treatment room, ensuring that all instruments and supplies are
present.
- Enters client charges and updates student vaccination
information on computer.
- Provides training and work direction to student assistants.
- Answers telephone providing routine information to caller
and routing difficult questions to clinicians.
- Administers electrocardiograms, attaching electrodes to
specified areas of client's body and turning machine to on
position.
- Sterilizes and cleans instruments used in examinations
and/or surgeries; maintains clean and hygienic environment.
- Schedules appointment for clinicians.
- Processes visit encounter records and maintains designated
files.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Skill in both verbal and written communication.
Minimum Qualifications:
Completion of a Medical Assistant program; OR, One year of medical
assistant experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience
and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and
abilities have been achieved.
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