Medical Assistant Model
Units:
- Core Orientation
- Medical Assisting Profession
- History of Medicine
- 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
Tags
Activity Industry Sector
Health Science and Medical Technology
Activity Originally Created By:
Tina Jackson
Day 2
Part of Lesson Plan: Dosage Calculations
Activity Overview / Details
Collect any homework from yesterday.
Inform students that today we will be going a step further by looking at common metric and household measures that are used in medication orders.
You will print the conversions sheet below. The sheet contains two charts on each page so only print half the number of students in the class then cut he sheets in half. For those students that wish to make flashcards to aid them in memorizing the conversions, provide cards to students if you have them available.
Materials / Resource
Conversion and Abbreviation Sheet
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