Becoming a medical assistant would allow you to perform routine administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and optometrists. Medical assistant's administrative duties include answering phones, greeting patients, updating and filing patient records, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, handling billing, bookkeeping and more. Medical assistant's clinical tasks include taking medical histories, recording vital signs, drawing blood, taking electrocardiograms, explaining and preparing patients for medical procedures, removing sutures, changing wound dressings, actually assisting physicians with exams, performing on sight lab tests, and a variety of other tasks. This cross of administrative and clinical duties keeps the job interesting. Then your niche is a career in nursing.
Nurses play a vital role in the health care industry.
Nurses work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. Some important duties of a nurse include observing and assessing patients, recording symptoms, reactions, and progress, assisting physicians during treatments and examinations, administering medications, and assisting in convalescence and rehabilitation. Positions for nurses are available in hospitals, physician's offices, nursing homes, private homes, schools and more. Paralegals work directly under the supervision of lawyers and perform many of the same tasks as lawyers, except those considered being the practice of law. As a paralegal, you will generally do the background work for lawyers such as preparing a case and investigating facts to make sure they have all the relevant information.