Medical assistant training gives you the skills to help fill in the gaps of the growing demand for quality healthcare. Medical assistants do more than just check patients into a doctor’s office and take their vitals. Medical assistants with specialized training can draw blood, take x-rays, perform basic laboratory tests, collect samples, and manage personnel [...]
Palliative care is a fairly new concept. It is a holistic approach to patient care provided when a person is facing a long term or life threatening illness. The patient’s family is involved in the care plan and the palliative team not only keeps the patient as comfortable as possible, but the needs and feelings [...]
My mother is a retired RN, my mother’s best friend was an RN, my aunt was an RN and back in their day there were almost no male nurses. A male nurse was a rarity only a decade ago. When my late husband was a CNA he faced subtle discrimination because he was a man. [...]
Doctors are usually thought of as the primary source of patient care, but caregivers and nurses provide the day to day, hands on care that patients need. The doctor may see a patient for a few minutes each day, look over their chart and give orders on the care the person is to receive, but [...]