New Website Helps MAs Find Jobs

January 3, 2012

Finding a job can be one of the most stressful parts of getting training for a new career. Not only are you focused on your current classes, but it’s always in the back of your mind whether or not you will be able to find a job when you have your certification. Fear not students [...]

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Making New Year’s Resolutions that You’ll Keep

December 30, 2011

Every year most people continue with a frivolous tradition that either becomes meaningless or discouraging. From diet and exercise to reading a book a week, we all seem to create New Year’s resolutions that set the standard too high or we give up before we even start. As a student getting medical assistant training, you [...]

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Geriatric Patients Need Advocates for Care

December 27, 2011

Where does the time go? There’s a popular quote that states that the days pass slowly but the years pass quickly. The older I get, the more truth this statement holds. Over the past three years I’ve lost two grandparents and through watching their aging process and the medical care they needed, I can’t help [...]

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Need for Gerontology Nurses Growing

December 22, 2011

It’s common knowledge that one of the main reasons why a nursing shortage is pending is because people are living longer and Baby Boomers are entering into their senior years. With an older population, it is obvious that more health care workers will be needed to care for these aging individuals. However as the need [...]

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Could Post-Discharge Clinics Reduce Patient Readmissions?

December 20, 2011

Patient readmissions seems to be a hot topic in the medical world. (Ironically, this is the one business that doesn’t want customers to return quickly!) The numbers vary by hospital and region and the causes can range from patient self-care to what caused the patient to end up at the hospital in the first place. [...]

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One Step Closer to Helping Pharmacy Technicians Help Patients

December 15, 2011

As a patient, I get so frustrated when I go to pick up a prescription on auto-refill only to be called the next day to pick up another medication. Many of these customers are the elderly or infirmed and I can’t imagine how they feel about making the extra trip to the pharmacy. Now pharmacy [...]

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