Medical Assistant Case Study

1(p19) Several medical professionals and educators recognized this shortage and tried to address it by promoting the need for a “mid-level” provider. 1(p21) Eugene A. Stead, Jr., MD was the first person to successfully establish a program designed to train these mid-level providers. In 1965, Stead instituted the first educational program for physician assistants at Duke University with the first class consisting of four ex-Navy medical corpsmen. 1(p24) Several similar programs soon followed and the demand for primary care physicians continued to increase with the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid programs. 1(p25) By 1970, the American Medical Association (AMA) validated the idea of a physician assistant. 1(p29) In the years following, the AMA worked together with other medical societies to establish an accreditation process for the educational programs, and the National Commission on Certification of Physician’s Assistants (NCCPA) determined standards for an examination in order to establish the competency of the physician assistants. 1(p31-38) After the establishment of necessary guidelines, the physician assistant profession continued to grow and gain popularity. Over the years, the scope of the physician assistant’s duties expanded from data gathering and repetitive tasks to include history-taking, physical examinations, diagnosing, treating, and prescribing medications.1 (p8)

Strengths are derived from a specific set of applied skills; these skills without application strips each individual of unique opportunities to exhibit their talents and perform to maximum capacity. Specifically, physician’s assistants require a variety of vital characteristics that must be developed through challenging active participation. Health care is an exciting, but demanding field that requires the possession of crucial qualities such as adaptability, restorative-ness, and the simultaneous collaboration of the two to perform the job’s required duties to full efficiency.

My interest in a Resident Assistant position comes from my desire to help. I was born with a very strong sense of empathy and if I see that a person is struggling I do all that I can do to alleviate them. Whether it is a person with a learning disability who struggled in class to the “weirdo” in high school who just wanted a friend, I’ve been there for them. Nothing is more painful to me than seeing a person being mistreated, under respected or neglected and I do all I can to protect people from this. My goal is to make every person feel as if they have someone on their side, someone

In this case, although the error started from the transmission of the discharge note to the home health care agency, Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant made number of mistakes in terms of clinical practice and delegation. First of all, completion and accuracy of patient’s physical therapy record is a professional responsibility of a supervising Physical therapist.1(p4) However, the PT failed to read the hospital discharge referral and documented incomplete and inaccurate plan of care. As a result, important information such as un-cemented prosthesis in situ and weight bearing limitations were not documented. In addition to that PTA elected to follow a protocol for cemented hip arthroplasty without referring back to PT for the missing information in the assessment. According to Texas Board of Physical Therapy examiners rule, “PTA may not specify and/or perform definitive (decisive, conclusive, final) evaluative and assessment procedures.”1(p5) Hence, it was also a mistake of the PTA to conclude the assessment and elect the inappropriate plan of care.

Medical assistants are permitted to obtain vital signs, subcutaneous and intramuscular injections, removing sutures, change dressings, and administer nebulizing treatments when delegated to do so by a physician. Due to protocol an advanced practice nurse, a physician or physician assistant must be on-site in order for a medical assistant to administer nebulizing treatments, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, removing of sutures as well as changing of dressings. Medical assistants can obtain vital signs without an on-site physician being present.

The planning of activities within the medical office is important for the Medical Administrative Assistant because planning allows room for organization and without organization there would be no successful businesses. An example of planning activities would include patient scheduling. This is essential in the medical office because the MAA must know the method of scheduling the office will run off of whether it be block or wave scheduling. This is also essential in the medical office because you must know the times available for the physicians so that you do not mistakenly over/under book a physician in the office. By enhancing the skill of planning and or scheduling it will allow success for you as an individual and the medical office you

Your post is very interesting, and very true in how MA get paid more than billing and coding. I do believe now in days when taking a class in medical assistant they teach the basic and there are offices now were MA do a little of everything. I do agree with you in how the organization like AAPC and AAMA help those who are in need of employment and helping keep pay rates fair depending on the area of market and also helping to continue education for those who are willing to feather there career. I do believe in joining an organization is worth it because you will receive the education that you need to succeed and in the other hand there will be a price to pay is it worth it (Yes) I do. Great post

As a chiropractic assistant my day to day activities range from helping patients to talking to lawyers. Daily tasks include helping patients with therapies, answering phones, making appointments, and assisting the doctor. Other tasks include calling insurance companies, speaking with attorney offices, talking to other doctors’ offices, and working with the Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation (BWC). Tasks that come up often but not daily include, entering payments and checks, auditing accounts, billing patients, billing BWC, and sending patient files to auto insurance companies or other personal injury attorneys or third party adjusters. Weekly to bi-weekly tasks include filling out orders and faxing them to imaging providers, filling out and

Defendant to assist them with meeting the financial obligations of Physician’s new practice in the Community. Specifically, Hospital agreed to advance a sign-on bonus and a commencement bonus, and to reimburse certain expenses, including relocation expenses, marketing expenses, and continuing medical education expenses. Ex. A at Cover Sheet, §§ D.3-7.

The University of Miami Medical School suffered a data breach involving 2 million records that contained patients’ medical information including patients’ name, address, social security number, and possibly financial data as well. The data was in the form of tape backups that were being transported offsite—something the university does routinely for disaster recovery purposes. The company transporting the tapes is a third party that the university contracted with, and it is believed that the theft was random and the thieves probably do not know exactly what they have stolen. Nonetheless, the information contained on those tapes are extremely sensitive and the perpetrators of the crime can inflict serious damages to the patients involved if

On 10/30, Barbara was taken to Henrico Drs Hospital-Emergency Room, after she became woozy after standing up at the Gayton Home. Staff assisted her with sitting back down and contacted the paramedics. Barbara received IV fluids and had several tests (bloodwork, CT scan, & EKG). All tests were found to be normal. The ER doctor determined she had a near fainting spell from rising up to quickly from a siting position. She was disharged with instructions to follow up with her PCP.

Lastly, by expanding the availability of housing, the community's population will certainly grow. With the increase in population, will the city, state and federal government and private enterprises meet the district's growing needs? For example, will there be additional law enforcement officers to patrol the neighborhood? Will there be new schools, especially a high school for the children in the community (in light of constant budget cuts for education)? Will the existing utility lines (water, gas, electric, and sewer lines) be able to meet the expanding demand of the community? How will the medical community handle the increasing demand for acute medical care? And lastly, is there going to be enough child day care or adult

I possess the ability to identify patient’s concerns and react accordingly to patient’s needs. As a current MSA I’ve demonstrated this ability in many ways. For example, if a patient approaches me with a question and I’m unable to give them an answer right away I can direct them to the appropriate department. On the other hand, if I’m able to help the patient with their concern (i.e. scheduling an appointment) I will drop what I’m doing at the moment, returning to it later, and assist the patient immediately. I recently had a patient who had a concern regarding an x-ray order that had been put into the database for him by a physician. After going to the x-ray lab the patient was seen and discharged. Following his procedure the patient realized

Thank you for considering me for the Med Tech I evening shift under Transfusion Services! I greatly enjoyed talking to you in the most prestigious hospital in the US.

All exercise programming and modification that needs to be made should be done in consultation with a medical professional or suitably qualified medical professional, such as a clients GP.