What Is A Medical Assistant?

Medical assistants are respected members of the healthcare team. They deliver the caring touch within the confines of a medical office and make a difference by helping people from all backgrounds, ages, and walks of life!

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What Is A Medical Assistant?

What Is a Medical Assistant?

Medical assistants in the USA are unlicensed allied healthcare professionals with a limited scope of practice, which can vary from state to state. Medical assistant are an integral part of the medical office team assuring the smooth operation of the medical practice. They work under the direct supervision of a physician, or practicing licensed healthcare provider.

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I Am a Proud Medical Assistant

I never want someone to think I am practicing as a RN in any way! I really love my work and continue to do so every day. I appreciate opportunities to learn from fellow staff and healthcare members, which includes RN's, LPN's, Dr's, and medical office support staff. We all work as a team, sharing valuable skills to help our patients! Where each one is willing to lend a helping hand much good can be done, even in the smallest offices and lowest positions---which there never is such a thing, anyway.

Contributed by "MA15Years".

Key To Medical Assistant Success: Care for your patients as it was your mother, your father, grandmother etc., and you will have happy patients, which trickles down to happy co-workers. And most, and foremost, treat others the way you want to be treated and be proud of your title, yourself, and your accomplishments.

What Does a Medical Assistant Do?

Medical assistant's duties include clinical and administrative tasks, such as answering telephones, checking appointments, arranging laboratory services, photocopying medical records, and handling billing and bookkeeping tasks. This goes hand-in-hand with obtaining information from patients that arrive for their appointmen and organizing their medical files. Also, taking the patient into the back office area for their medical check-ups is an essential part of being a medical assistant. By taking care of essential front and back office tasks the medical assistant allows the healthcare provider, such as doctors, and nurses to focus directly on the patient's medical needs and health concerns without being bogged down with the daily office routine that's essential to running the practice.

Duties and Pay On 04/29/2008 illy told us the following: I am a CMA and have been working for just over a year, I have already gotten $2.50 more an hour in just a little over a year. CMA's are very vital to a clinic or hospital. We do it ALL.	Contributed by "illy".
What I Do: I room up to 30 patients a day by myself. When I am not rooming, I am helping the receptionist answer multiple phone lines, medical records, faxing prescriptions, filing, preparing charts for future appointments... The list is long.

— Maintain patient’s safe passage in and out of the clinic, and ancillary services

— Greet, assess and interview patients

— File paperwork, lab slips, and insurance information into the medical charts

— Obtain past medical and surgical history, family history, social history, vital signs

— Review present medications, allergy history, chief complaint, and brief interrogation of complaint

— Act as a liaison between doctor and patient

— Explain medication, side effects, treatments, diets, diseases and disease processes

— Update medication list and current problem list

— Prepare and assist patients for examination, treatment, or procedure by medical staff

— Anticipate needs of patients, and the doctor under whom I work

— Monitoring of patient during examination, or procedure

— Maintain and update level of skill for pertinent medical assistant duties

— Maintain patient care areas

— Stocking and ordering of supplies as needed

— Charge and code supplies, medications, and procedures

— Respond to patient’s concerns in person or by telephone while simultaneously documenting the problem

— Maintains patient confidentiality

— Participate in training and skills development of new medical assistants

Professionalism and Integrity

No where is the need for personal integrity as great as in the medical and healthcare field where doctors, nurses and medical assistants continually deal with people in need of care for their illnesses and often financial and personal problems.

Attitude

Whenever the medical assistant interacts with others communication must be carried out in a honest and compassionate manner, while treating everybody equally with understanding, dignity, caring, and kindness! A general attitude of friendliness and empathy can go a long way.

Dependability

Doctors and patients expect their medical assistants to be reliable, truthful, trustworthy, and confident.

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