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For those who are a medical assistant or patient care assistant and work in a hospital setting. What is your typical patient volume?? Do you like the hospital setting?? What do you like about it? What do you dislike about it?

Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Hello,

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

My place of employment, a specialty hospital, hires MAs and utilizes them as unit secretaries. This essentially means they perform no patient care.

The unit secretaries answer phones, schedule appointments, make transportation arrangements, admit and discharge patients, put charts together, and are responsible for mainly clerical front office duties.

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Can you get EKG certified. That would be a way to get in to a hospital setting.

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Can you get EKG certified. That would be a way to get in to a hospital setting.

Yeah I could get EKG certified. I am also a phlebotomist so that could be a way to get into hospital setting to I suppose.

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Hello,

We moved your thread to the CNA/MA forum for the best response.

Thank you :)

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My place of employment, a specialty hospital, hires MAs and utilizes them as unit secretaries. This essentially means they perform no patient care.

The unit secretaries answer phones, schedule appointments, make transportation arrangements, admit and discharge patients, put charts together, and are responsible for mainly clerical front office duties.

Hmm. That kind of stinks. I love patient interaction so it seems like outpatient is better

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For those who are a medical assistant or patient care assistant and work in a hospital setting. What is your typical patient volume?? Do you like the hospital setting?? What do you like about it? What do you dislike about it?

Hi!! I am also a Medical Assistant and work in a large hospital organization. I work in an outpatient setting for Pediatrics but I also pick up extra shifts in the hospital as a Tech or Unit Secretary. It depends where you go if they will hire you in a hospital setting as a Tech or Secretary. Best of luck to you!

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Hi!! I am also a Medical Assistant and work in a large hospital organization. I work in an outpatient setting for Pediatrics but I also pick up extra shifts in the hospital as a Tech or Unit Secretary. It depends where you go if they will hire you in a hospital setting as a Tech or Secretary. Best of luck to you!

How long have you been a medical assistant?? Thanks for your feedback and best wishes !!

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

CNA's aren't nurses but they post on AN a lot. I don't get it?

This is a forum for nurses. MA's have nothing to do with nursing. Why not ask your question on a medical assistant forum?
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Why can't we

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This is a forum for nurses. MA's have nothing to do with nursing. Why not ask your question on a medical assistant forum?

There's an entire subforum for MAs and CNAs...

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There's an entire subforum for MAs and CNAs...

Right and my question was moved to the ma forum.

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