Why You Should Be CPR Certified
Graduates of a Medical Assistant diploma program will be prepared to assist physicians in medical office examinations; perform basic laboratory skills and procedures; record, monitor, and mount electrocardiograms. In the front office, the Medical Assistant will perform the administrative duties including bookkeeping, record management, appointment scheduling, insurance, and medical practice management. Since Medical Assistants are trained in both administrative and clinical procedures, they are capable of filling a variety of positions, including Clinical or Administrative Assistant and Medical Receptionist. When thinking about where you want to work, remember, most medical facilities want you to be CPR certified, and by already having this training, it can help your chances for employment.
You may not know this but medical personnel like doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians may be required to perform CPR in the course of their duties. Human resource personnel, secretaries, maintenance personnel and other non-medical employees would seldom need the skills but may be required to have CPR skills. Medical personnel must maintain advanced CPR skills, which includes the use of basic equipment and how to do two-man CPR. If someone collapses in the waiting room, hallway, outside of the parking lot, you as medical personnel would be expected to know how to help the patient and keep them stabilized until they can be properly transported where they can be helped with better equipment.
Being properly CPR certified can help save lives. According to Centers for Health and Public Safety more than 300,000 people have cardiac arrests in the United States every year. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when an electrical rhythm problem occurs and the heart is no longer able to pump blood effectively to the rest of the body. You might see a person suddenly collapse and the heart is no longer able to pump blood effectively to the rest of the body. You might see a person suddenly collapse, lose consciousness, and stop breathing. The longer the body goes without circulation, the chances of survival drop. By performing CPR, you are able to help the person’s heart pump and circulate the blood until you can get them to a safe place to receive immediate attention. According to Lawrence Phillips from Every Day Health we know that the chance of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest increases significantly, by more than double, when CPR is started early. Make sure you get CPR certified today to save a life tomorrow!
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