NHA Case Study

It describes the procedures, actions and processes that a person in the medical field is permitted to do while staying in the lines of the dos and don’ts of their professional license. As for medical assistants and the scope of practice tends to differ from the rest just like any other healthcare professional. To make it clear, medical assistants are NOT licensed to be a doctor, health practitioner clinician. Our level of experience falls into the so-called middle-skills job class. Different states have different laws that medical assistants have to follow, but fall into the same criteria as the other states. As medical assistants, we are prohibited from making judgments about treatment, making independent assessments, diagnoses, and may not:Triage patients aloneDo not tell the patient about test resultsGive medicine without permission or doctors ordersGive medication directly in the veins of patientswww.mb-guide.org/medical-assisting-scope-of-practice.html For the medical assistants, we are always under the supervision of the doctor or any other health care professional. We are never alone. In my program, we are taught different things like, billing and coding, phlebotomy, and office work. Personally, I’d like to work in the field and interact with the patients and help them as much as my scope of practice allows. One day, I will go to the next level of the medical field and further my

Being a student in the UW nursing school, I can not only take advantage of the special classroom settings, but also the advanced technology. With classroom settings designed for active learning, it gives me opportunities to share my thoughts and ideas with other students. Instead of listening passively, we would work as a team to find out the best solution for patients. Besides, the unique state-of-the-art technology allows me to practice and apply my knowledge in a simulated hospital setting. Since every practice is recorded, I can take a look at those videos several times and self-reflect. Thus, I can correct my mistakes and improve.

* (NHA) National Health Career Association offers two medical assistant certification tests for clerical and administrative work.

When you take the CNA certification course, it does not even come close to preparing you for what your clinicals will entail. You study and learn to prepare yourself for that moment where it’s up to you to be knowledgeable to do your job. It’s difficult and intimidating to know that you are at the bottom

Medical assistant are all about keeping the patients feeling at home and comfortable in the hospital (Boston Reed College, 2011). Medical assistant have both administrative and clinical duties. Medical assisting is one of the nation’s fastest growing career in the United States of America (BLS, 2014). Medical assistants are excellent at helping people, communicating, and multitasking.

For a Medical Assistant to maintain his/her certification they must recertify either by passing the CMA exam again or by

The purpose of this post is to discuss the nurse’s scope of practice. The American Nurses Association (ANA) has established guidelines to provide nurses a safe parameter to work within, while also protecting the patient. These laws are based on the competency, knowledge, judgment, and skills required by nurses in order to provide safe care for the public (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2015). It is imperative that nurses know their scope of practice within their state to avoid being charged with a violation of the Nurse Practice Act (Wilkinson & Treas, 2011). I will be discussing my states scope of practice in this posting.

Being a medical assistant involves being able to perform both clerical and clinical tasks. Clerical jobs include typing and answering phones and clinical involve more jobs like a nurse. Medical Assistants (MAs) help physicians by taking vital signs, interviewing patients, ordering supplies, and keeping records. They also may authorize drug refills as directed by a physician and telephone prescriptions to a pharmacy. They may also perform lab tests and

While the demand of healthcare need increasers the United States facing a physician shortage. In recent years the number of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) has significantly increased and they are taking the part in providing healthcare cervices to the majority of patients. I believe nurse practitioners and physician assistants can practice independently from doctors and be free of oversight. Expanding the scope of NPs and PAs is essential to overcome the healthcare crisis we are facing; it will increase patient satisfaction and stabilizing the healthcare economy.

Some of the duties of a medical assistant can be administrative as well as clinical. The main duty is for the medical assistant is to bring the patient in, get there vital signs, such as height, weight, blood pressure, temperature and whatever else the facility wants. Medical assistants record information

A medical assistant is important to the physicians and nursing staff. Doctors and nursing staff have to be able to concentrate on the medical problems and concerns of their patients. These assistants keep the physicians on schedule, the healthcare facility on course, the workflow smooth and running, the patients informed, and the customers comfortable and safe. Basically, they keep the medical office together. Physicians and surgeons have their own long list of chores and responsibilities to maintain. They just do not have enough time to handle all of the chores that are given to the medical assistants. Without them, things would be really chaotic and frustrating. Physicians as well as nurses would have way too much on their plate to manage.

They also meet different people with many backgrounds for example Doctors (MD’s), Physician Assistants, Nurse practitioners (NP’s) and nurses. Usually MD’s recognized the hard work of a medical assistant because since they work closely to them. But working with different people medical assistants can perceive that not everyone will treat them with respect. Flor stated, “The nurses think that medical assistants have a lack of knowledge and sometimes they underestimate medical assistants” (Contreras, 2017). Medical assistants struggled with nurses that have bad attitudes that make them feel unappreciated. Nurses can be lazy that do not want to help room patients or facilitate a good patient experience in the clinic. Instead nurses are always

Being able to break information down to where the patient or patients can understand is a wonderful skill to posses because I will be dealing with so many cultures, ethnicity, and age groups. A lot of people do not understand when doctors and even medical assistants use certain terms, so when they are spoken to where they can understand, it makes them feel better just knowing what is going on instead of feeling more confused than what they was when they came in. And also it lets them know that you care enough to take the time and effort to make sure they understand.

HealthCare Issue: With the rapidly growing elder population, the considerable economic burden on healthcare followed by more outpatient office visits, these factors have resulted in an unprecedented strain on the healthcare system. Particularly concerning, is the projected supply of and demand for the healthcare workforce (Administration on Aging, 2016, Anderson, 2014). In response to these pressures, the healthcare industry strives to search for cost effective approaches through redesigning and reducing its work force by increasing the utilization of MAs (Anderson, 2014). Currently medical assistants (MAs) and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) work closely together in various clinical settings delivering quality healthcare to the public. However, the role of the MA presents a unique challenge to the APRN in that APRNs are limited in their ability to effectively and efficiently delegate to MAs (New Hampshire MA Taskforce, 2011). Therefore, APRNs will not be deployed in various clinic settings, thus, confining a physician’s means to expand healthcare access to his/her patients. Clinic workflows and staffing structures can result in situations where an APRN is formally or informally relied upon to delegate to and supervise CMAs (New Hampshire MA Taskforce, 2011). With this in mind, much more attention should be focused on future proposed changes concerning the legal relationship between MAs and APRNs. Current Arkansas jurisdictions allows APRNs to delegate limited

While observing the emergency department I noted that there were inconsistencies within the triage process. Many times the patient no matter the length of wait would not have any vitals obtained. My preceptor informed me that the information