|
Sep 13, 2024
|
|
|
|
2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
|
MA 126 - Clinical Office Procedures Credit Hours: 4
A lecture/laboratory course which is designed to provide the medical assistant with entry-level skills in clinical office procedures. Instruction includes fundamentals of patient care as practiced in a medical office during examination and treatment. Laboratory sessions provide practice in: organizing the examination or treatment area before, during and after patient care; procedures for sanitization, disinfection and sterilization; adhering to the OSHA standard, recording subjective and objective patient data; procedures for patient positioning and draping; measuring and recording vital signs; assisting the physician with the examination, treatment and minor surgery and instructing the patient in the preparation for x-ray and diagnostic imaging procedures; identifying surgical instruments.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe and demonstrate medical aseptic practices that should be followed in a medical office.
- Demonstrate the proper procedures for taking the vital signs of temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure.
- Collect data from the patient for use in the health history, take height and weight measurements, demonstrate proper placement and draping of a patient and proper assisting techniques during the physical examination.
- Demonstrate proper procedure for weighing and measuring the pediatric patient and growth chart plotting.
- Demonstrate proper procedure for testing distance and near visual acuity and assessing color vision; perform an eye and ear irrigation and eye and ear instillation.
- Demonstrate proper procedure for sanitizing office instruments, for sterilizing articles, using moist heat and for chemical disinfection.
- Demonstrate proficiency in performing sterile dressing change.
- Name and identify instruments used in minor office surgery; demonstrate proper use of each while maintaining a sterile field, and proper procedure for assisting in minor office surgery.
- Describe patient preparation required for each of the following types of X-ray examinations: Barium meal, Barium enema, Cholecystography, and Intravenous pyelography, colonoscopy, and diagnostic imaging procedures
- Enter patient information on medical chart.
- Apply proper medical terminology in all of the above areas.
- Explain the purpose of OSHA and identify OSHA guidelines
Prerequisites: BI 147/ BI 148; MA 115 Corequisites: MA 125 F/S (N)
This course is required for the Medical Assisting AAS Degree and 100% of the Psychomotor and Affective competencies need to be passed.
Reminder: Students must obtain a minimum grade of C to pass the course.
|
|