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The Clinical Medical Assistant:
The clinical medical assistant makes 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.
Blood and Other Specimens
If the physician orders a blood sample 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.
Rooming Patients
Before leaving the exam room the clinical 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.
If the patient needs to change into an examination gown or needs to be draped, the clinical medical assistant will help.
Male Physicians and Female Patients
Male physicians, who perform physical and breast exams on female patients like to have a female medical assistant on their team. This medical assistant is present in the examination room and she stays with the physician as a chaperone during the exam.
Primary Care Physicians:
Although medical assistant working in primary care with a family physician use by far a wider range of clinical skills and deal with a much wider range of different situations as their counterparts in specialty care, they usually receive considerably less pay because primary care physicians receive less money for their services than specialty doctors or surgeons. This directly affects the pay rate they are able to offer their staff.
Point of Care Screening Tests:
In-house quick diagnostic tests on specimens are done using simple automated equipment or "quick tests", while the patient waits in the examination room, or treatment area. These so-called point of care screening tests may include blood typing, urinalysis, vaginal smears viewed under a microscope, anemia hemoglobin testing, rapid mono and strep tests, influenza testing from a nasal swab and various other simple tests. See examples of point-of-care tests!
Additional Responsibilities:
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.
Specimen Collection:
These preliminary test results are to be done STAT and results are immediately reported back to the ordering physician so the appropriate treatment can be determined. For example, if a rapid strep test comes back positive, the patient can be put on antibiotics without delay. It is, however, very important that a portion, or additional samples of the specimen that was collected is forwarded to a clinical or diagnostic reference laboratory for cultures or more sophisticated testing, so that these initial results can be confirmed as soon as possible!
Primary care providers are essential to the healthcare system, however, despite of the wide variety of skills and huge range of responsibilities, they usually must pay their medical assistants less than specialty doctors such as those in dermatology, allergy and immunology (asthma), otolaryngology, or gastroenterology.Get Your FREE Career Information Kit!
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