Medical Assisting Practice Management - Terra State Community College

Medical Assisting Practice Management from Terra State Community College is a Campus Associate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Medical Assistant works in a variety of health care settings: medical offices, clinics, and ambulatory care facilities. Medical Assisting duties vary between administrative and clinical skills. Medical Assistants help to ensure a smooth and functional health care setting and to provide a patient centered approach to quality health care. The program provides individuals with hands-on clinical skills, knowledge, and an understanding of the profession of Medical Assisting through classroom instruction, clinical skills, and externship. Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to sit for the Registered Medical Assisting (RMA) examination through American Medical Technologists (AMT). The faculty have identified the following learning Outcomes for all graduates: Maintain patient chart and filing systems. Produce daily patient list and pull charts. Ensure various records and forms are in proper order. Insert clinical and administrative documentation. Process medical records requests. Pull charts and obtain physician approval. Copy pertinent information, adhering to rules of confidentiality. Perform various data entry tasks using computerized practice management software programs. Perform initial patient work-ups, assisting the patient into the exam room, obtaining medical history, and measuring vital signs. Perform basic lab work; venipuncture, capillary puncture, urinalysis, and other lab specimens ordered by the physician. Follow up on lab results by placing in patient chart and routing results to the physician for review. Perform EKG's as ordered. Perform injections as ordered. Assist the physician with various examinations as instructed. Sterilize, package, and autoclave instruments. Organize examination rooms, set up for specific procedures, and do general cleaning and restocking. Perform other duties as necessary and within the Medical Assistant's scope of practice. POTENTIAL OCCUPATIONS: Medical Assistants work in a variety of healthcare settings, such as physicians' offices, clinical laboratories, nursing homes, chiropractic offices, optometry offices, and dental offices. View more details on Terra State Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.