KLR Medical Certification Training School 

As future healthcare professionals, how you present yourself matters both in the classroom and at your clinical rotation sites. Maintaining a clean, professional appearance  shows respect for your patients, your team, and the medical field as a whole. Here at KLR we start this soft skills training from day one. Showing proper grammar and email etiquette when communicating with your Instructors prepares our Medical Assistants (MAs) for communicating with their preceptors durin

When you think of a Medical Assistant (MA), you might picture someone working in a doctor’s office, but the career opportunities go far beyond that! Certified Clinical Medical Assistants (CCMAs) are in high demand and can be found in a wide variety of healthcare settings. From bustling hospitals and urgent care centers to specialized clinics and even government or research facilities, MAs have the flexibility to explore many different career pathways. In this post, we’ll take

Continuing Education Credits and Navigating the NHA Website by Marielle Friedman and Abigail Grisham Continuing Education, or CE, is a vital part of the Medical Assisting journey to not only pursue further education, but to maintain your certification as a CCMA. Through the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) website, you can purchase, complete, and upload CE credits that will apply towards your eligibility to renew your certification. Renewal of your CCMA certification m

Certified Clinical Medical Assistants (CCMAs) are tasked with several clinical and administrative duties. It can be tedious to manage the stress that comes with balancing daily tasks, emergent situations, and unexpected patient interactions. How can Medical Assistants (MAs) manage the administrative side while continuing to perform all clinical duties? How can they utilize the daily schedule? And, what are some useful tools to organize the day and avoid burnout? We explore so

As a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, and working in the Healthcare world in general, you will deal with a diverse population of patients, and a broad variety of concerns. Helping patients who are going through the stages of grief, de-escalating tense situations, and knowing when to ask for help, are just some examples of the situations that involve addressing our patients' concerns.  How can Medical Assistants handle when a patient is hesitant to share sensitive informa

Are you contemplating a healthcare career and seeking the perfect starting point? Medical assisting could be the ideal entryway for you. Let’s talk about a medical assistant's role, potential workplaces, job responsibilities, their significance within healthcare, their interaction with other healthcare roles, the educational requirements, and how embracing a medical assistant course at KLR Medical Certification Training School can propel you toward a rewarding nursing career.

A crash cart, commonly called a code cart, is found in many healthcare settings; specifically, those in which patients are at the most risk for a cardiac or respiratory event. Some of the areas in which you will find a crash cart include hospitals, emergency rooms, urgent care centers, outpatient surgery centers, and cardiac stress testing centers. Crash carts are often made up as a set of drawers, trays, or shelves on a mobile cart that can be easily transported to differe

If you complete a rotation in a hospital or later on begin working in a hospital setting, chances are that you will see and use what is often called a “tubing system”. The more proper name for these systems is pneumatic tubing systems. These systems propel cylindrical containers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They have been used around the world for hundreds of years but are now most often seen and used in manufacturing, hospitals, and ban