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How to create a professional medical assisting program when you are between a rock and a hard place.
Overcoming the complex barriers, circumstance and obstacle that hinders the development of medical assisting students and the program.
Coffeyville Kansas has experienced a slow and steady population decline since around 1960, when its population peaked at more than 17,000, now 10,000. Changes in industry and oil production have caused a loss of jobs in the area, and residents have moved to get work, but in the midst of this community is Coffeyville Community College and Christina Tucker Sibley. It is the professional character of people like Christina Tucker Sibley that have made a difference in the lives of people and the community
Christina Tucker Sibley EMT/RMA (AMT), B.S. H.S. (Health Studies-Gerontology) Licensed Producer- Life, health, and Accident Insurance , Former Program Director/ Medical Assisting Instructor at Coffeyville Community College
.A Personal Note By Christina Tucker Sibley
In Kansas, Medical Assistants are given almost no limitations, at a state level, as long as we are working under our practitioners orders.
I think one of the biggest problems, at least here, isn't that we are not allowed to do things at a (state) legal level but that most providers and office/hospital administrators don't know what MA's can do.
They are ignorant, if you will, of both the Medical Assisting profession and the laws of their own state.
I've seen this first hand both working in offices and trying to set up clinical sites at offices/hospitals.
They are often astonished to learn the amount of skills that MA's are trained and legally able to perform.
As far as the professional reputation/perception of the MA... I agree with Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we influence people by our character, habitual professional (and personal) actions, and overall behavior.
We can talk until we are blue in the face about how we are professionals and educated but our actions and physical presence speak the loudest for us.
We have to show them that we are not only as good as anyone else, but leave them wondering if we might even be better!
We don't do this through talking ourselves up or putting others down but by BEING the ideal and indispensable MA every minute of every day. Respect is earned.
You know if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck; it must be a duck?
We have to work within our own personal circle of influence to change the perceptions of those around us, via our actions, in the hopes that it will spread from there.
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Overcoming the complex barriers, circumstance and obstacle that hinders the development of medical assisting students and the program.
Coffeyville Kansas has experienced a slow and steady population decline since around 1960, when its population peaked at more than 17,000, now 10,000. Changes in industry and oil production have caused a loss of jobs in the area, and residents have moved to get work, but in the midst of this community is Coffeyville Community College and Christina Tucker Sibley. It is the professional character of people like Christina Tucker Sibley that have made a difference in the lives of people and the community
Christina Tucker Sibley EMT/RMA (AMT), B.S. H.S. (Health Studies-Gerontology) Licensed Producer- Life, health, and Accident Insurance , Former Program Director/ Medical Assisting Instructor at Coffeyville Community College
.A Personal Note By Christina Tucker Sibley
In Kansas, Medical Assistants are given almost no limitations, at a state level, as long as we are working under our practitioners orders.
I think one of the biggest problems, at least here, isn't that we are not allowed to do things at a (state) legal level but that most providers and office/hospital administrators don't know what MA's can do.
They are ignorant, if you will, of both the Medical Assisting profession and the laws of their own state.
I've seen this first hand both working in offices and trying to set up clinical sites at offices/hospitals.
They are often astonished to learn the amount of skills that MA's are trained and legally able to perform.
As far as the professional reputation/perception of the MA... I agree with Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we influence people by our character, habitual professional (and personal) actions, and overall behavior.
We can talk until we are blue in the face about how we are professionals and educated but our actions and physical presence speak the loudest for us.
We have to show them that we are not only as good as anyone else, but leave them wondering if we might even be better!
We don't do this through talking ourselves up or putting others down but by BEING the ideal and indispensable MA every minute of every day. Respect is earned.
You know if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck; it must be a duck?
We have to work within our own personal circle of influence to change the perceptions of those around us, via our actions, in the hopes that it will spread from there.