An excellent Medical Assistant is one who knows what equipment the doctor will need before he asks for it. It's important to learn your doctor's needs so you can anticipate what instruments or medical equipment will be needed when caring for a patient. Many Medical Assistant have minor clinical responsibilities such as: making sure that the patient is seated comfortably, then sets up the room, brings in needed instruments and equipment, and prepares the patient for the examination and treatment. If the patient needs to change into an examination gown or needs to be draped, the clinical medical assistant will assist, and then, ask the patient to wait until the doctor will see them next. If the physician orders blood or other specimen collections, such as urine, throat, and vaginal specimens, the clinical medical assistant will obtain these specimens, and either properly package then to send them to the appropriate reference laboratory, or will do simple diagnostic screening tests in a small lab area somewhere in the back area of the medical office, while the patient waits.
Between seating patients and assisting the physician the clinical medical assistant is responsible for the office's on-hand supply of medications. The medical assistant must be sure that medication closets are properly maintained, no medications have expired, and low supplies are restocked. It also is the clinical medical assistant's responsibility to maintain a clean, tidy, and safe work environment and make sure that all surgical instruments are properly cleaned, wrapped, and sterilized; also that all automated office and diagnostic equipment is clean, calibrated, and well maintained.
Before leaving the exam room the Medical Assistant will glance through the patient's medical chart to assure it is complete, then place the entire chart into the holder outside the door. This is the "universal sign" that the patient is ready for the doctor. If special diagnostic or minor surgical procedures are indicated they assist the physician during the procedure.
Assignment:
1. No reading assignment or questions for now (they are combined with the Class #13 "The Patient H&P).
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