Travel Medical Job Description
Travel medical
provides medical testing such as EKGs, pulmonary function, phlebotomy, blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, and perform limited interpretation of tests.
Travel Medical Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective travel medical job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included travel medical job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assist with surgical procedures under supervision of a surgeon
Assists physicians in preparing for examinations and minor procedures
Performs basic nursing procedures including thermal applications, non-sterile soaks and applications of simple dressing, perineal care and urine test
Pre-certifies surgical and other procedures, if appropriate
Advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management
Supervising care delivered by patient care team
Coordinating plan of care
Providing education for patients and staff
Collaborating with other disciplines
Providing direct patient care for specific patient age groups
Travel Medical Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Travel Medical
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, ACLS, CPR, PALS, AMT, AAMA, IV, AHA, CCBMA, AMCA
Education for Travel Medical
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the travel medical job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Education, Biological Science, Medical, Medical Technology, Graduate, Medical Assistant, Vocational Nursing, School of Nursing, Supervision
Skills for Travel Medical
Desired skills for travel medical include:
Ability to perform skills within the scope of a Certified Medical Assistant
EKGs and phlebotomy
Injections
Medical terminology
Microsoft packages
Procedures
Screenings
Fraud and investigation
Insurance principles & practice
Medical terminology and coding
Desired experience for travel medical includes:
Make sure that the patient care meets standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
Supervise care delivered by patient care team
Coordinate plan of care
Provide education for patients and staff
Collaborate with other disciplines
Provide direct patient care for specific patient age groups
Travel Medical Examples
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Travel Medical Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of travel medical. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for travel medical
- Coordinate routine aspects of patient care
- Compliance with policy cover and indemnity
- Demonstrate an appropriate level of information gathered through relevant sources and third parties
- Implement and document care
- Scribe for surgeon, as needed
- Ensuring patient care meets standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
- Greets patients and escorts them from the waiting room to exam rooms
- Prepares exam and treatment rooms with necessary instruments prior to patient appointment
- Obtains and documents patient vital signs in EMR, including temperature, blood pressure, height/weight, respiration and pulse
- Obtains and documents patient’s favorite pharmacy, smoking history, allergies, current medication list and/or reconciles the current medication list
Qualifications for travel medical
- CPC-I certification preferred
- Knowledge of HEDIS and STAR initiatives
- 1+ year professional (applicable) teaching and instructing experience
- AAPC or AHIMA Certified Coder with high degree of competence in this area
- In manually calculating claims, the auditor must be able to recreate deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums, and other benefit limitations as presented with the sampled claims
- The auditor must be able to clearly articulate their claim questions on a hand-written form and discuss variances of opinion with payer staff in a professional manner, especially when there is disagreement in the conclusion
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of travel medical. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for travel medical
- Maintains a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for the patient and their families
- Enters verbal and written orders into EMR at the time order is received from a qualified provider (MD, DO, NP, PA)
- Answers M.A
- Disposes of contaminated items according to OSHA guidelines
- Handles laboratory specimens according to OSHA and CLIA guidelines
- Transmits patient education when appropriate through the use of preprinted education materials, links, etc
- Replenishes supplies, stocks and cleans exam room daily
- Takes medical stock inventory and communicates supply shortage to Clinical Director
- Maintains company code of conduct and patient confidentiality as regulated by HIPPA
- Attends annual CPR, OSHA and CLIA training programs as applicable
Qualifications for travel medical
- Language skills - Ideally Spanish and French speakers but candidates speaking another language will be considered
- Current, nationally recognized Medical Assistant certification or the ability to obtain the certification within 90 days of employment
- Proficient using Excel and Word programs
- 2+ years of prior experience in an Inpatient Medical-Surgical setting
- One year experience in primary care clinical assisting preferred
- Certified Medical Assistant, current/valid CPR certification
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a travel medical. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for travel medical
- Assembles packets with hospital specific general information
- Mailing of completed packets to volunteers
- Shredding of appropriate documents
- Communicate and set clear customer expectations in relation to timeframes, availability of services support Deliver and update the customer within pre-agreed timescales and ensure that they are reasonable and achievable
- Meet customer satisfaction by fair interpretation of the policy coverage, speed of response and working collaboratively with customer relations
- Actively manage and progress the case diary
- Lead departments clinical studies
- Line manage team members
- Perform business development activities if required
- Monitoring a participating in all types of site visits if needed
Qualifications for travel medical
- Assist members in empathetic, efficient manner to determine best course of action to resolve issue
- Be receptive to constructive feedback by supervisors and/or QI to better serve member
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows required
- Demonstrated ability to make quick decisions, based on sound base of critical thinking skills/guidelines by protocols required
- Demonstrated ability to interact with a variety of levels of staff to provide good customer service to internal customers required
- Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills in English
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a travel medical. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for travel medical
- Serves as public relations liaison between the volunteers, the travel agency and donors to aid in their understanding of service to mission hospital/clinic in foreign countries comprehensive understanding of World Medical Mission and Samaritan’s Purse ministries
- Provides oversight and direction to entire logistical process once volunteers are placed at hospital/clinic
- Sends detailed orientation packets to volunteers
- Assists volunteers in obtaining information regarding workload, call schedules, facility layout, needed supplies and medical equipment
- Manages a wide variety of logistical problems in route, which may include emergencies
- Updates and restructures hospital/clinic orientation materials on an ongoing basis
- Researches and facilitates all travel arrangements upon receipt of a volunteer file
- Communicates confirmed travel schedules and all documentation needed for trips, such as passports, tickets, and customs letters
- Obtains necessary documentation from volunteers for medical license, special pass, work permit and dependent’s pass
- Organizes medical credentials, obtains letter of good standing, assures that documents have been notarized, if needed, and sends them to the hospital
Qualifications for travel medical
- Or interoffice note, documentation of patient information) and to take complete and accurate messages
- Must be willing to work 12 hours shifts periodically
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse Program if less than three (3) years' experience
- 6 months nursing experience (in an acute setting)
- State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) and any relevant unit specific certification requirement
- Experience in a teaching/academic hospital
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of travel medical. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for travel medical
- Follows opening and closing procedures as required
- Manages project activity for related expenses to include requesting payment for any booked airfare at the time of the booking making sure any expenses that need to be reimbursed are properly handed over to the expense manager
- Processes check request for payment (wire transfers) to field offices for reimbursement of in-country flights, Codes any project invoices appropriately
- Participates in conferences, specific meetings and reports as indicated
- Performs all duties at the expert level within the scope of a Medical Assistant’s scope of practice
- Ensures that all MAs are aware of training they must receive to continually improve performance
- Transmits patient education when appropriate through the use of preprinted education materials, links
- Assists customers with inquiries and/or problem resolution in a professional and composed manner and escalates to manager as appropriate
- Travels within a designated demographic area to work at other branches
- Answers telephones, routes calls, takes, and relays accurate phone messages
Qualifications for travel medical
- Language skills - Ideally French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese or Bulgarian speakers but candidates speaking another language will be considered
- Current, valid BLS certification
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) verbal and written proficiency
- Experience working in a Primary Care and Specialty office environment preferred
- Experience in Line managing
- Experience in performing business development activities