Medical Assistant Model
Units:
- Core Orientation
- Medical Assisting Profession
- History of Medicine
- Once upon a time...
- Million Dollar Question
- Who are you and what did you do?
- What now
- Presentation skills
- Once upon a time...
- Medical Ethics and Legal Considerations
- Interpersonal Communications
- The Patient Record
- Safety in the Medical Office
- Office Emergencies
- Infection Control and Universal Precautions
- Medical Terminology
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body
- Vital Signs
- Vital Signs
- What is meant by vital signs?
- Vital Signs Overview
- Methods used to measure temperature
- Mercury Thermometers
- Care of the mercury thermometer/Taking a patient's temperature
- Other types of thermometers
- Pulse
- Pulse Sites
- What is a normal pulse rate?
- Taking a Radial Pulse
- Taking an apical pulse
- Respirations
- What does blood pressure mean?
- What effects an individual's blood pressure
- What equipment do you need?
- How to take a patient's blood pressure
- Vital Signs
- Patient Examinations
- Diagnostic Tests, Examinations and Therapeutic Modalities
- Laboratory Procedures (Obtaining & Preparing Specimens)
- Minor Surgical Procedures
- 1...2...3...No Germs on Me
- Assisting with surgery: suturing
- Watch video on circumcision
- Objective overview: Setting up sterile tray and passing instruments
- Set up a sterile field and learn instruments
- Guided practice
- Know the instruments in the kit
- Assisting with suturing:passing the instruments
- Practice setting up tray
- Passing instruments
- Draw the tray set up
- Test on tray set up
- Pharmacology for Medical Assistants
- Personal Behaviors Influencing Health
- Health Care Insurance Coverage
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Activity Industry Sector
Health Science and Medical Technology
Activity Originally Created By:
kim roy
Who are you and what did you do?
Part of Lesson Plan: Once upon a time...
Activity Overview / Details
Discuss significant events in history and how new discoveries have changed our lives.
Show power point.
There are several videos that that present information about advances in medical history.
The Discovery Channel has videos on "Designer Babies" at www.discoverychannel.com
The History Channel has videos on "Modern Marvel - Antibiotics" and "Out break the New
Plagues" at www.HistoryChannel.com
Bill Nye the Science Guy video "100 Greatest Inventions at www.billnye
Materials / Resource
history of med.pptm
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Reviews some of the discoveries and inventors throughout history
