Running Head: Medical Assisting
Medical Assisting
Daniel Clemmons
Kaplan University
Medical Assistant
Chosen Degree Plan I have chosen the Associates of Applied Science in Medical Assisting. Because I am an Emergency technician for a private ambulance company In Chicago and I want to broaden my education and career more into the health field. I graduated from Alan B Shepard High school in 2009 and worked time in retail as an assistant manager at an Ace Hardware and found that wasn’t what I wanted to do in life. My next door neighbor is a paramedic and I went for a ride along with him and I loved, the fast pace, the adrenaline rush you get going to the calls. I choose to go to Kaplan because my uncle is a former …show more content…
The number of facilities are reaching out to medical assistants, doctors will hire medical assistant because they are trained in many different areas and can perform many different office tasks and patient treatment. So the demand is getting bigger and bigger and the salary will also increase along with the demand for the assistants.
Duties
The many duties of a medical assistant are taking vital signs (i.e. blood pressure, pulse, temp, pulse ox). You can also help the doctor in patient exams and giving medications. Also the desk area of the job include making schedule and doing insurance papers and billing. Also it can depend on the employer you work for and what tasks they want you to do. You must know the HIPPA policy and patients’ rights. Duties are kind of like a physician’s assistant but without the desk area or clerical duties.
Tools
The tools used in this field can be many different ones including a blood pressure cuff used to check blood pressure, a stethoscope used to listen to the lung sounds and heart, a pulse oximeter used to measure the patient’s o2 saturation in the blood. Scheduling, accounting and Microsoft office programs will also be used in the job position while doing office work and billing work. A medical assistant has many different tasks and will require different tools and software depending on the
Medical Assisting
Daniel Clemmons
Kaplan University
Medical Assistant
Chosen Degree Plan I have chosen the Associates of Applied Science in Medical Assisting. Because I am an Emergency technician for a private ambulance company In Chicago and I want to broaden my education and career more into the health field. I graduated from Alan B Shepard High school in 2009 and worked time in retail as an assistant manager at an Ace Hardware and found that wasn’t what I wanted to do in life. My next door neighbor is a paramedic and I went for a ride along with him and I loved, the fast pace, the adrenaline rush you get going to the calls. I choose to go to Kaplan because my uncle is a former …show more content…
The number of facilities are reaching out to medical assistants, doctors will hire medical assistant because they are trained in many different areas and can perform many different office tasks and patient treatment. So the demand is getting bigger and bigger and the salary will also increase along with the demand for the assistants.
Duties
The many duties of a medical assistant are taking vital signs (i.e. blood pressure, pulse, temp, pulse ox). You can also help the doctor in patient exams and giving medications. Also the desk area of the job include making schedule and doing insurance papers and billing. Also it can depend on the employer you work for and what tasks they want you to do. You must know the HIPPA policy and patients’ rights. Duties are kind of like a physician’s assistant but without the desk area or clerical duties.
Tools
The tools used in this field can be many different ones including a blood pressure cuff used to check blood pressure, a stethoscope used to listen to the lung sounds and heart, a pulse oximeter used to measure the patient’s o2 saturation in the blood. Scheduling, accounting and Microsoft office programs will also be used in the job position while doing office work and billing work. A medical assistant has many different tasks and will require different tools and software depending on the