Multi-Tasking Medical Assistants
If Awesome Multi-Tasker is one of your special skills, you might want to consider adding medical assistant to your list of career options. The job requires the efficient juggling of several duties being performed all day. It doesn’t sound like a sitting down job, which sounds right up the alley of any high-energy types out there.
From the Minneapolis-St. Paul Start Tribune:
“The reason that clinics like medical assistants is that they’re cross-trained,” explained Stacey Wanovich, a faculty member in Anoka Technical College’s medical assistant program (anokatech.edu). “They’re a lot of bang for the buck, and nowadays everyone is trying to cut costs.”
Certified medical assistants mostly work in clinics, administering injections, taking blood pressure readings, drawing blood, performing common laboratory tests, working with medical records, scheduling patients and performing electrocardiograms. They often greet patients and escort them to examination rooms and assist providers with procedures.
The economy is a wee bit tight, and that’s helping to illustrate beautifully how valuable medical assistants are to a budget-conscious medical facility. Jump on board now before the economy recovers!
Further Reading:
Top Ten Recession-Proof Jobs
Career: Medical Billing and Coding
Occupational Outlook for Medical Assistants
Medical Assistant Schools
Posted by Alexa Harrington
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