From Title: Improving Your Rehabilitative Nursing Skills
Health professionals operate by a resident bill of rights and code of ethics. An expert discusses the right to privacy, subjective and objective reporting, dependability, and autho...
Ethical Issues in Nursing Series
Legal and ethical policies are becoming more and more complicated in the medical field, and their impact on today's health care provider is an essential topic in nurse training. Th...
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Florence Nightingale and Louisa May Alcott served as Civil War nurses, both of whom wrote about their profession and experience. One historian describes women's roles in medicine, where their knowledge and natural experience evolved from being trustworthy and powerful to suspect and wicked.
Many young people are interested in entry-level health care jobs that balance clinical duties with administrative functions. This program illustrates the ins and outs of just such a position—the certified medical assistant. The video examines a CMA’s typical responsibilities, such as maintaining patient records, managing a physician’s schedule, and preparing examining rooms, as well as the skills a successful medical assistant will need—including data entry, customer service, specimen collection, and first aid. Incorporating interviews with experienced medical assistants and the specialists who train them, the program describes what it takes to become a CMA, from the best high school courses to take to passing the CMA (AAMA) certification exam. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide containing additional material—including student activities, discussion questions, vocabulary terms, and fast facts—is available online. Correlates to national and state board certification standards. A Meridian Production. (20 minutes)