OSHA ( Occupational Safety & Health Administration) – Established1970

1. Toxic chemicals
2. Lead
3. Asbestos
4. Cotton dust
5. Pesticides
6. Noise

OSHA’s ( Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard) were developed in 1991
– reduce employee risks of pathogen caused by diseases such as Hepatitis B and AIDS

Pathogen – is a disease causing microorganism

Role of Medical Assistant:
1. Medical Assistant need to be aware of and trained in general and medical safety procedures.
2. Essential for Medical Assistant to report any unsafe conditions to the proper person(s) immediately and follow all office safety rules.

General & Medical SAfety Procedures:
1. Lower the potential for harm to employees
2. The public
3. It will keep liability for injuries resulting from unsafe practices to a minimum

Personal Safety Measures
1. Avoid loose and baggy clothing that could get caught in equipment
2. Keep jewelry to a minimum (it can get caught in equipment & may harbor bacteria)
3. Wear shoes that are supportive and appropriate
4. Secure long hair back, as it can get caught in equipment
5. Store all personal items, such as your medication & jewelry in a secure area away from patients

Body mechanics:
1. Caring for patients or careful in moving
2. Lifting supplies & equipments
3. Proper body mechanics

Vital job of MA
1. MA must know how to lift
2. MA must know how to carry
3. MA must know how to move to protect herself from injury

An example:
1. Before lifting check the object to be lifted
2. Make sure floor is clean and dry where you are going to lift
3. Face the object, move your feet apart to a distance equal to your shoulder width and put one foot slightly forward
4. Bend at the knees then firmly grasp the object with both hands
5. Tighten your stomach muscles and keep your back straight
6. Lift the objec with your legs. This technique uses the stronger leg muscles to lift rather than the weaker back muscles.
7. If you need to turn, use your whole body
8. Seek help if object is heavy

Medical Assistant – Duties

Administrative
1. Greeting Patient
2. Handling correspondence
3. Scheduling Appointments
4. Answering telephones
5. Using computers, facsimile(fax)machines and other automated office equipment
6. Communicating with patient, families and co-workers
7. Creating and maintaining patient medical records
8. Handling billing, bookkeeping and insurance claim for processing
9. Performing medical transcription
10.Arranging for hospital admissions and testing procedures
11.Organizing and managing office supplies
12.Educating patients

Clinical

1. Asepsis and infection control
2. Preparing the examination and treatment areas
3. Interviewing patients and documenting patient’s vital signs and medical histories
4. Preparing patients for examinations and explaining treatment procedures to patients
5. Assisting the physician during examinations
6. Disposing of contaminated (soiled or stained) supplies
7.Performing diagnostic tests such as electrocardiograms (ECGs & EKGs)

Note: Duties will vary from office to office.

Administrative & Clinical-2

1. Waived tests that approved by the FDA for use in the home include?
Answer: blood glucose, urine pregnancy

2. Quality-control methods used in testing include?
Answer: calibrating all equipment with control samples, checking expiration dates for reagents,maintaining and documenting maintenance of equipment

3. When a whole blood is centrifuged, plasma is?
Answer: at the top

4. Lab requisition for must contain?
Answer: physician’s signature, patient’s name and DOB
test ordered

5. Standing order
Answer: a test that is routinely performed before the patient’s visit
signed and placed in the patient’s chart

6. When cleaning the site _____% isopropyl alcohol should be used
Answer: 70%

7. Demographic information for a patient must be on?
Answer: Lab requisition Form

8. Newborns with PKU lack ______for breaking down specific proteins
Answer: Enzymes

9. Problems tht can occur when collecting a blood specimen include?
Answer: failure to obtain blood, hematoma, syncope

10. It is important to have knowledge of prior to performing a venipuncture?
Answer: The type of specimen required by the testing facility
The color tube to be used
How much specimen is needed

Administrative & Clinical-1

1. Americans with Disabilities Act has _____ sections
Answer: 5

2. Recording an incident report will be?
Answer: record on the facts and have the report reviewed by the physician

3. Who developed standard precautions and universal precautions?
Answer: OSHA

4. Performing a skin puncture, avoid bone injury and must not more than _______ mm deep in a child.
Answer: 2

5. Glucometer is an instrument to measures blood?
Answer: Sugar

6. Pathogen is a?
Answer: disease-causing organism

7. Decontamination is?
Answer: the removal of pathogens from an object

8. Failure of a facility to comply with OSHA regulations could result?
Answer: fines of up to $7,000 per violation & fines of up to $70,000 for a repeat violation

9. CDC stands for?
Centers for Disease Control

10. CLIA certificate of waiver is issued to a lab that conducts
Answer: only waived testing