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Welcome New Medical Assistant...

Join us to review important medical office concepts and skills. It's 100% free!

Surf this website for a creative look behind the scenes of a busy medical office. The purpose is to help you self evaluate your knowledge and skills, and become more successful in your chosen career. Learn how medical assistants keep it (the medical office), doctors, and patients on track. Catch a glimpse of important concepts that make the medical assistant so indispensable! From organizational and clinical skills, to infection control, to administrative responsibilities, such as medical record keeping and management... each and every lesson highlights important skills that medical assistant medical assistants must know.

The goal is to reinforce basic theories and concepts concerning the multi-disciplinary aspects of medical assistant duties, with special focus on issues that are typically encountered in a busy medical office daily.

The role of the medical assistant is becoming more and more important and the demands on their knowledge are rapidly increasing. Employers and job agencies are screaming for more qualified staff and are ready to recruit more medical assistants for positions in the administrative (front office) and clinical areas (back office). Hiring medical assistants in medical offices and ambulatory health clinics to work side by side with physicians and other licensed healthcare providers is increasingly becoming the norm. Today's medical assistants should take every opportunity to enhance, solidify, and further their knowledge and skills in order to remain efficient and competitive in our modern and rapidly advancing healthcare system.

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Skills Reviewed:

1. Concepts of health and illness

2. Patients' Bill of Rights and responsibilities

3. Key elements of professional practice

4. Concept of professional ethics

5. I mportant personality traits of a healthcare professional

6. Factors that can affect interpersonal relations

7. Communication techniques used in a healthcare setting

8. Recognizing the importance of patient education

9. Policies pertaining to consent for medical treatment, incident reports, and release of medical information

10. Proper patient care reporting and assessment procedures

11. Evaluating the needs of a medical patient

12. Non-emergency ambulatory care provided for patients

13. Needs of a surgical patient during the preoperative and postoperative phases of treatment

14. Evaluate the needs of the orthopedic patient

15. Uses and application procedures for dressings and bandages

16. Needs of the terminally ill patient

17. Identifying patient safety concerns in a medical office

18. Identify environmental hygiene concerns in a medical office

19. Recall medical asepsis principles and recognize medical asepsis practices

20. Surgical aseptic techniques, and the correct sterilization process for different types of materials

21. Sterile article handling and surgical hand scrubbing techniques, and gowning and gloving

22. Proper handling of sharps and medical waste sorting, packaging, handling, and disposal procedures

23. General first aid rules

24. Protocols for triage

25. Different types of wound treatments

26. Management and treatment procedures for open and internal soft-tissue injuries

27. Classification and evaluation process for burns, and determine the appropriate treatment for each type of burn

28. Appropriate stabilization and treatment procedure for the management of bone injuries