Career Advancement Volumes
The AMCA produces a series of Career Advancement Volumes that can be used to renew your AMCA certification or enhance your resume and career.
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Career Advancement Volume 7: HIPPA
Volume Objectives:
- Discuss state and federal law related to patient privacy.
- Describe examples of inappropriate use of social media and strategies to reduce the risks.
- Understand changes to HIPAA, related to COVID-19 pandemic.
- Understand patient privacy concerns associated with the acquisition, transmission and sharing of clinical photographs among health-care providers.
- Establish a basic understanding of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Career Advancement Volume 8: CDC & Contact Precautions
Volume Objectives:
- Review evidence from national literature supporting adherence to standard precautions.
- Discuss strategies to promote adherence to standard precautions among healthcare workers.
- Understand the effectiveness of contact precautions against transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms.
- Describe the difference between contact, droplet and airborne precautions against transmission of respiratory viruses.
- Understand the application of infection prevention and control in pediatric patient populations.
Career Advancement Volume 9: Telehealth
Volume Objectives:
- Understand the purpose, strengths and weaknesses of text messaging utilization in Telehealth.
- Understand the significance of information gaps regarding the long-term effects, acceptability, costs and risks of mobile health (mHealth).
- Discuss the impact of the shift to virtual healthcare and the changes related to the medical assistant role in the context of national professional competency standards.
- Discuss the potential health gaps created by numerous available mobile health applications.
- “Describe examples of the relation between network communication systems, sensor technologies, and Telehealth”
Career Advancement Volume 10: Accurate Medical History
Volume Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of obtaining an accurate family medical history and its’ significance with identifying risk factors for chronic diseases.
- Discuss the importance of combining accurate history taking and empathetic communication for effective clinical decision-making and patient satisfaction.
- Review the value of the patient interview and electronic questionnaire methods of health history data collection.
- Review the significance of medical history and patient/family communication as a mainstay of accurate diagnosis.
- Discuss the importance of accurate medication reconciliation and keeping updated medication records.
Career Advancement Volume 11: New Medical Devices
Volume Objectives:
- Distinguish the difference between mobile cardiac telemetry and event/Holter monitors, as well as review the pros and cons of each medical device.
- Discuss the role of the medical assistant in the application of the small bowel capsule endoscopy.
- Review proper sterilization technique of reusable medical equipment via autoclaving.
- Review and understand newer automated external defibrillator devices in the treatment of ventricular fibrillation.
- Evaluate the benefits of wearable wireless electrocardiogram (EKG) patches in the monitoring and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
Career Advancement Volume 12: Taking Vital Signs
Volume Objectives:
- Establish the importance of maintaining manual blood pressure measurement skills in comparison to relying on automated blood pressure measurement.
- Review common errors made when measuring blood pressure and discussing techniques to avoid such errors.
- Understand the importance of accurate body temperature in diagnosis and review four noninvasive peripherally methods of measuring body temperature.
- Review the knowledge and skills required for accurate manual pulse measurement to safely care for patients.
- Discuss how to measure and record accurate respiratory rate.
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