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what is a typical day like for a clincal medical assiant

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Estelle’s Answer

As a physician, I work with medical assistants every day. They are a vital part of the healthcare team. Medical assistants prepare rooms for patients, gather information about the patient, take their vital signs, and keep a physician up-to-date with what’s going on in the clinic. Being an MA is exciting and fulfilling!
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Brock’s Answer

Although it depends on what type of clinic, for the most part MAs all do the same thing and that's keeping the provider going! First thing in the morning your getting your stage ready. That means checking your controls on Point of Care testing kits (rapid strep kits, rapid flu kits) making sure your vaccines are stored in the proper temperatures and then checking your supplies while noting temps. Then you'd move on to your machines and make sure your EKG is operating, making sure you have your computers up and on in the rooms, and then checking your stock of gloves and what not in each room. Once this is all done you log in and get to checking in patients. This could be scheduled patients or walk ins, depending where you're at. I have worked at an Urgent Care and now at a Primary Care clinic, where we see both.
As you begin rooming patients you will obtain their vitals and gain their chief Complaint, or reason for being there. You will document all this information in your computer via an electronic medical record program. These are all different but have an underlying similarity. Once you are all documented in your computer you will pass on a brief summary of the patient to the provider. They will most likely then check your objective information in your note and then go and see the patient. This is where an MA is very crucial. Because a doctor/PA/NP will base their diagnosis in big part from your vitals and other history obtained in your interaction with the patient, it is important to have correct information. Therefore, don't be afraid to take your time and get the right info. At the same time be a student of medicine and learn what some symptoms tend to be, sometimes you will pick something up that the doctor missed.
After the doctor has seen the patient they will out in orders for treatments, medications, lab work, or even referrals to specialty clinics and it's our job to make sure this all gets done! You will need to be organized and able to think on your feet because while you are taking care of the needs of one patient, there's another waiting to have their own plan of action. The key here is getting into a groove with your doctor. Once you have worked a little bit you will be able to anticipate what your provider is going to do for a patient and be ahead of the game. This is where it can also get fun but you must always remember to be thorough and to take care of the patient.
After you've completed the doctors orders and the patient is waiting to go, you will provide them a discharge papers detailing the visit, follow up instructions, and a number to call for questions. And that's it!
You do this for every patient that is scheduled or until the doctor is done seeing patients. Depending where you work this could be 12hours or 8hours.
Anyways hope this helps in someway! I really enjoy being a medical assistant. It keeps you seeing something new everyday and you get to provide a great service to people. Working with doctors can also be fun and has its perks like free food from medical companies!
Good luck!
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Rachel’s Answer

The medical assistants in our office do a variety of tasks. They help answer phones, take patients' vitals, room patients, and assist with procedures.
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Ann’s Answer

I worked in a Family Practice clinic. I had a medical assistant that worked with me. She was my life saver. She "ran the show". The MA's roomed the patients (got them in the room, found out why they were there, took the vital signs, set up the room as needed for whatever the person was coming in for), answered the phone, took messages and gave them to me, and did some testing-like doing a swab for strep throat, or doing a urine test for a bladder infection, or doing a fingerstick for a blood sugar. She also gave patients the vaccines needed (that were ordered by me). She would contact patients, as needed, for follow up-giving them results, letting them know what needed to be done next (per my instructions). She assisted my in the exam room when needed.
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