Activity 6 * Select a group of people with whom you are familiar in order to plan and organise a formal meeting. Describe who the group are and the purpose of the meeting. * Medical Centre Employees Staff Meeting – All Staff Answer the following questions: 1. What information is required in order to schedule the meeting? * Notifying all staff of the location for the meeting- Meeting will be held in the Mall Surgery all staff are advised to attend.
A people skill is very important to have in the medical office because you have to deal with patients every day. While having good people skill you have to learn how to communicate throughout the office to be able to get along well with your colleagues. For example, if a patient calls in the office complaining about a bill they have just received from there office and the patient will take it out on the Medical Administrative Assistant who answers the phone. A Medical Administrative Assistant has to have good people skills to handle a situation like this and not get you angry at the patient. Knowing how to communicate with the patient in a low calm tone of voice will help calm the patient down.
People skills, planning activities and typing are the human skills a good Administrative Medical Assistant should possess. People skills will help with communication. Communication is important because you will be dealing with patients every day. It will help when you have an anger or upset patient. You will know how to calm them down.
An LPN will work under the supervision of doctors and RNs to assist patients in the recovery process. They take patients vital signs, administer shots, help doctors and RNs with some procedures, as well as assist in bathing and feeding patients in a hospital setting. They are also allowed to take samples for laboratory test. In an office setting, an LPN will also make appointments for the doctor and perform some clerical duties as well. As to where an RN can work in a wider variety of settings, from doctors’ offices, to nursing homes and care facilities.
This is the most important because, most patients have a tendency of being nervous and feeling uncomfortable when being inside of a doctor’s office. Therefore, the patient should have to feel they are put at ease with the Medical Assistant. This farther lets the patient know that the Medical Assistant can be trustworthy and all their information can be kept confidential between them and their physician. 2. Why the planning of activities within the medical office is important for the MAA.
Once the scope of the computer project has been determined and resources become available, this project should require little more than six weeks to implement. The administrative controls can be put into place as soon as documents are revised and introduced to staff. The entire process can be completed in two months. 1) Engineering control: The IT department will add an “Initial Assessment” to the nurse's work list in the patient's EMR that will be added automatically upon admission. This task will remain on their work list until it is completed.
All of which are used to improve our overall communication process as a pharmacy department and hospital. In addition to all these communication channels every Wednesday morning every in the department at a given time will meet for what is called “huddle.” These huddles are designed for everyone to communicate any new information, and concerns, etc. Most of the technicians find out new policies and producers at these huddles because there isn’t always a lot of time to keep up with emails on an hourly basis. When using external operations, we use interoffice mail which volunteers deliver important documents from department to department. For example, if you need to send tuition reimbursement forms to Human Resources Department you can do it through interoffice mail.
This complex new system has ways of looking up patient history and pharmaceutical information if a drug is not known. Physician orders were now legible and properly sent with the new computerized physician order entry (CPOE). There were issues with the start of the system to locate beds that patients were listed in and how to get labs done from the Lab tech being paged through a paging system. Patient Access Reps, Doctors, and Nurses were now able to use “work station on wheels” (WOW) where portable laptops were used to triage and register a patient rather than the use of
Unit 4 assignment Kaplan University The profession that I am in Kaplan to learn is Medical Assisting. There are a view things that I have learned about this field that I didn’t know. As a medical assistant, you will perform administrative and clinical duties under the direction of physician. You will be responsible for keeping the medical office or facility running in a smooth manner. Your duties may vary depending on the state where you are located, but typical duties of a medical assistant include; * Taking and recording vital signs in medical history * Preparing patients for examination * Drawing blood * Administrating medication as provided by the physician * Discussing prescription
Malcovich of this patient’s presentation early on in her visit allowed him to investigate the details of her health and psychiatric history. He was also able to check laboratory and test results and have complete access to up-to-the-minute patient care notes. This allowed him to begin contemplating patient management options. St. Theresa’s, unfortunately does not offer inpatient psychiatric services. Therefore, once medically cleared, we have to rely on inpatient psychiatric facilities or group homes like the one Dr. Primrose runs to ensure that these patients remain safe while, in this case, initiating prescriptions to manage medical and psychiatric issues and gathering resources that will be necessary for this patient to regain her independence.