Certified Medical Assistant

Our Medical Assistant is responsible for performing a variety of duties in our Urology offices. This position is based in Fayetteville but may need to travel to Syracuse offices upon business need.

What You’ll Be Doing

Greets and assists patient in placing personal belongings in the appropriate place in the exam room.

Ensures any medications brought to the visit by the patient are placed into patient’s chart. Verifies patient’s history prior to seeing the physician.

Obtains patient’s vital signs including weight, blood pressure, respiration and pulse and ensures they are recorded in the EMR.

Assists the physician with office procedures that do not require administration of medications.

Collaborates with AMP RN’s and LPN’s to provide high quality patient care.

Performs blood draws as needed.

Performs bladder scans and uroflow tests.

Prepares the patient for their appointment. Female patients should be asked to undress from the waist down depending on the medical issue. Male patients should be asked to remove shoes, socks and shirt and no gown is used.

Ensures the patient’s room number has been recorded on the encounter ticket and the ticket is placed in either the door or chart holder.

Ensures examination rooms are cleaned and supplies are stocked. Exam room cleaning includes disposing of table paper and gowns, cleaning contaminated surface areas such as door handles, blood pressure cuffs, chairs and pulls bars as time allows.

Maintains working knowledge of OSHA compliance standards and applies these policies and procedures to daily responsibilities.

Responsible for completing, in a timely manner, all AMP training and in-services, including but not limited to annual OSHA training and PPD placements.

Maintains a high level of patient confidentiality.

Performs all other duties as assigned.

Reasoning Ability 

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have thorough knowledge in computer information systems.  

Physical Demands 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. 

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment.  This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

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.

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected.