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The medical technicians ought to be trained and acquire skills to tact emergency situations. During emergency situation to take proper care the medical technician students are educated and prepared. There are special vocational colleges, which offer certain training methods to the students, which help them in grooming themselves into a complete medical technician. These technicians have an important role in patients’ health care.
Patients who require immediate and emergency medical attention are looked after by some medical technicians who are skilled in that. Before going to any nearby hospitals, these medical technicians take necessary steps towards health of a patient and stabilize them. Some special training skills are required to stabilize the health, as it is not very easy. There are mainly 3 steps towards obtaining optimum health condition of a patient. Each level demands some medical duties, which must be given properly by the technician. Starting from level one each technician has to proceed carefully to the other steps.These levels are as follows:
Basic:
Skills that a medical technician must have for different types of patients, such as trauma, heart and respiratory emergencies are the basic parts. The medical health of the patient has to be very cautiously assessed during emergency situations. Theoretical and clinical training are the two parts of the basic part. The technicians are discussed with some of these: shock management, types of burns, joint splitting, hemorrhage control and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. Initially, the students perform medical duties under the guide of more trained and experienced professionals.
Intermediate:
There is more advance in skills to be learnt as the level of learning proceeds. Life supporting in nature practices are included in this level. Health stability of the patient is restored by these steps taken. That are to be followed the actual protocols are broken down here such as those to be followed in a burnt patient. The transportation procedure of a medically compromised patient is modified so that the patient is able to receive proper medical treatment in time before fatality. In this level these are few things, which are discussed: gunshot wound response, hazardous material identification, blood borne pathogen control and disinfection. Patients with spinal or lung or chest traumas are to be treated in a different manner and have therefore, different treatment methods to be discussed. Generally the training period is 35-55 credit hours.
Paramedic:
The highest and ultimate level of the Emergency Medical Technicians during the medical training is Paramedic training. In this level, the students come to the real field and are complete technicians in the sense they start using the experience gained in the previous levels and apply them on the patients like giving proper medications, incubating and electro cardiogram interpretation. Atleast 1000 hours has to be completed by the students during initial training period before going through these programs. Field experience training is also included in this level.
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The medical technicians ought to be trained and acquire skills to tact emergency situations. To take proper patient care during emergency situations, the medical technician students are educated and prepared. Special vocational colleges are there which offer certain training methods to the students, which help them in grooming themselves into a complete medical technician. These technicians have an important role in patients’ health care.
These medical technicians are skilled in looking after patients who require immediate and emergency medical attention. Before going to any nearby hospitals, these medical technicians take necessary steps towards health of a patient and stabilize them. Some special training skills are required to stabilize the health, as it is not very easy. To obtain the optimum health condition of a patient there are mainly 3 steps. The technician must properly give some medical duties, which are demanded, by each level. Each technician has to start from level one and then proceed carefully to the other steps. These levels are as follows:
Basic:
Skills that a medical technician must have for different types of patients, such as trauma, heart and respiratory emergencies are the basic parts. The patient’s medical health has to be very cautiously assessed during emergency situations. Theoretical and clinical training are the two parts of the basic part. Some of these are discussed with the technicians: shock management, types of burns, joint splitting, hemorrhage control and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. Initially, the students perform medical duties under the guide of more trained and experienced professionals.
Intermediate:
There is more advance in skills to be learnt as the level of learning proceeds. Life supporting in nature practices are included in this level. Health stability of the patient is restored by these steps taken. That are to be followed the actual protocols are broken down here such as those to be followed in a burnt patient. In order to receive proper medical treatment in time before fatality of the patient the transportation procedure of a medically compromised patient is modified. Gunshot wound response, hazardous material identification; blood borne pathogen control and disinfection are the few things, which are discussed in this level. Spinal or lung or chest trauma patients are to be treated in a different manner and have therefore, different treatment methods to be discussed. 35-55 credit hours are the training period generally.
Paramedic:
The highest and ultimate level of the Emergency Medical Technicians during the medical training is Paramedic training. The students come in to the real field in this level and are complete technicians in the sense they start using the experience gained in the previous levels and apply them on the patients like giving proper medications, incubating and electro cardiogram interpretation. Atleast 1000 hours has to be completed by the students during initial training period before going through these programs. Training in field experience is also included in this level.
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When medical transcription is chosen as a career, many want to work at home. They also want to learn to be a medical transcriptionist at home. Why go through more trouble to go to school than you would to go to work? Much better to do both at home when you can.
Studying at home doesn’t mean you can go easy on which training program you choose. The work is challenging, and your education should be good enough that you can handle it.
As a matter of fact, how well you cope with an online medical transcription course is one indicator for how well you will do working at home. If the self guided study and lack of supervision don’t work well for you, you probably won’t thrive working at home either.
Step 1: Evaluate your skills.
I don’t mean your transcription skills. You’ll learn those during your training program. But before you start that, you need excellent grammar, a great vocabulary and be able to type at least 40 wpm. You should also be very detail oriented.
Without these skills you will not thrive as a medical transcriptionist, and the training will take much longer than it should. If your skills aren’t up to par, work on them before you consider learning medical transcription.
Step 2: Choose a school.
I prefer online medical transcription schools personally. The most highly recommended ones are all online programs. If you want to work at home you’ll need the practice in that while you learn to be a transcriptionist.
Go for quality, not just price. Landing a job more easily can make up the difference between a cheap and low quality school versus a more expensive and higher quality one.
That doesn’t mean price is the one factor to consider. You want to learn from a school that employers respect. One whose graduates often find work within a reasonable time frame. One that prepares you for the real work of a medical transcriptionist. A partnership with certain employers is a good sign that those employers will consider you after graduation if they have any jobs available. No guarantees, of course.
Request information from your preferred schools. Check the AHDI Approved list of medical transcription training programs. Pick the one that is right for you.
Step 3: Enroll.
After reviewing all the schools you’re considering, pick the right one and get started. Don’t get lost in all the information. The sooner you enroll, the sooner you will finish your training and be able to look for work.
Step 4. Study hard.
Learning medical transcription is hard work. The vocabulary is extensive. If you don’t have a medical background already, there will be a lot of unfamiliar terminology. You will learn how to format medical reports and transcribe hours and hours of real doctor dictation. This is necessary to become a qualified medical transcriptionist.
Stephanie Foster gives more tips at Medical Transcription Basics on learning medical transcription. Find out how moms can do medical transcription work at home at http://www.medicaltranscriptionbasics.com/stay-at-home-moms.htm
The learning period in one’s life never ends. This is also the reason that after twelve years of learning in a school, 4 rigorous years of study in a college and 4 laborious years in any medical school, one still requires to learn a lot. What is the reason behind this? Well, the school years offer us just the foundation. Thereafter, one requires learning about vital information and requisite skills to use upon workplace medical training. This is after which one can start his/her medical career as a licensed practitioner.
Medical internships actually bridge the gap between schooling and a career as a licensed physician. These internships last for one year. A medical internship can also be referred to as a period where a student is given hospital-based training that takes place under the strict supervision of experienced attending physicians. The internship is designed in a fashion to transform a college student into a serious medical practitioner. This practitioner is equipped with vital knowledge about daily requirements, workload and pressures related to a physician’s job.
Interns are trained via exposure to a wide variety of conditions. An intern is supposed to see different patients. The more they get in touch with patients, the more they become knowledgeable and experienced. They also become capable of handling different health conditions and diseases. They also acquire proficiency at both diagnosis and taking prudent decisions about a specific.
Attending important lectures and conferences is crucial fro a student during medical internship. The information gained in these conferences can help them in their workplace in the future.
Mainly there are two types of medical internships:
Transitional internship
Specialty track internship
Transitional is a straightforward internship process. The successful completion of this internship in conjunction with stage three of the USMLE or COMLEX-USA allows a licensed medical practitioner to work in a general capacity.
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OS2 Healthcare Solutions 1099 Contract Work
Remote HCC Coder Nov 2016 Feb 2017
Trained and coded charts in Arch coding system. Coding in 3M, and in Coding Tables for HCC.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Volunteer Data Entry Jul 2007 – Present
Indexed over 340,000 records and arbitrated over 540,000 records names to be used for searching names for Family Genealogy in various projects from census records to church records, and reading difficult handwriting
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Medical Coding Certificate Sep 2013 Aug 2016
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