Medical Assistant, Dermatology Specialist, Rock Creek Medical Offices

4 weeks ago

Lafayette, Louisiana, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary:

As a Medical Assistant at Kaiser Permanente, you will play a vital role in providing exceptional patient care and support to our medical providers. Under direct supervision, you will perform a variety of basic and routine patient care and clerical duties to assist medical providers in the care and treatment of patients.

Primary function is to room patients and facilitate provider schedule. You will make members/patients and their needs a primary focus of your actions; develop and sustain productive member/patient relationships. Actively seek information to understand member/patient circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs. Build rapport and cooperative relationship with members/patients. Consider how actions or plans will affect members; respond quickly to meet member/patient needs and resolve problems.

Essential Responsibilities:
This position, knows and complies with all Kaiser Permanente quality, safety, and emergency policies and procedures. Demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice in every interaction with patients, colleagues, providers, and leadership.

Ensure patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care related to but not limited to safe medication administration practices , procedures, infection prevention, fall prevention, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs.

Report safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly.


Perform appropriate basic, routine and regular delegated medical functions as directed and within appropriate scope of practice as inferred by knowledge, skill level, and KP guidelines (e.g., vision screening, ear irrigations, hearing tests, hematocrit, tonometry measurements, EKG tests, collecting throat, wound, and sputum specimens, and urine cultures) using appropriate instruments, techniques, and specimen labeling process.


Support physicians and other medical providers performing routine examination and treatment procedures by attending patient during procedures and providing appropriate supplies and instruments.


Perform routine clerical and reception duties, as required, such as completing patient visit records, maintaining departmental logs, answering telephones and taking messages, checking in patients, and scheduling patient appointments.


Perform other duties as assigned, such as assisting in orienting and training new employees, transporting equipment or patient, stocking shelves, taking inventories, ordering supplies.

Demonstrate computer literacy for charting and reviewing in an automated medical record. Work within scope of practice and according to KP policies. Comply with regulatory requirements and standards of care.


Administer specific medications to identified patient age groups in identified departments as determined by the regional Nursing Service department.


Perform duties and responsibilities with excellence, enthusiasm, great service orientation demonstrating courteous behaviors and mannerisms, and by anticipating physician and other medical providers needs.

Demonstrate flexibility and readily assists other staff members. Maintain a safe and healthy work environment for patients, self, and others.


Prepare examination and treatment rooms for use by physicians and other medical providers by cleaning, stocking and arranging supplies, equipment and instruments.

Prepare treatment rooms for special procedures using knowledge of sterile technique, as required. Clean, package and sterilize reusable supplies and instruments, as needed, appropriately using germicide solution.


Review and communicate to physician and other medical providers appointment schedule to determine patient visit order and solicit special instructions or requests for the day, greet and escort patient to examination or treatment room in a respectful, warm and caring manner.

Keep patients, physician or other medical providers, and other team members, informed of physicians or other medical providers status and/or time delays throughout the day.


Interview patient to determine reason for visit; take patients vital signs, e.g., blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, height and weight; record information in patients medical record; and report findings to appropriate personnel, according to standard requirements.


Instruct or assist patients in preparation for scheduled procedures, in a caring and courteous manner. Provide routine verbal and written instructions to patients as specifically directed, such as use of crutches, cast care and wound care; escort patients to other patient care areas, as needed.


Basic Qualifications:
Experience

Education

Successful Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program and a minimum of a 120 hours of clinical experience.


Copy of diploma and transcripts from program required OR letter from school attesting to successful completion of KPCO Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program.

High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) required.


License, Certification, Registration

N/A

Additional Requirements:
Demonstrated customer service skills, customer focus abilities and the ability to understand Kaiser Permanente customer needs.


Preferred Qualifications:

COMPANY:

KAISER

TITLE:
Medical Assistant,Rock Creek Medical Offices, Dermatology

LOCATION:
Lafayette, Colorado

REQNUMBER:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.

Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.

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