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The answer depends on your state and possibly your job site. For instance, in New York Medical Assistants may not administer medications except if they work with developmentally disabled people.
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∙ 14y agoA medical administer can only suggest common drugs. They can only handle the risk free drugs which are of low power and easily available everywhere.
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Can an Assistant in Nursing administer Schedule 3 medications?
In our state, a nursing assistant can not administer medications.
Can a medical assistant administer H1N1?
Medical Assistants are not allowed to administer Immunizations, they are not licensed and does not have authority to administer, authority exists them to give immunizations.
What a medical assistant cant do in the medical field?
The answer varies from state to state. In NY, medical assistants can't administer medications, assess patients, or give injections. They can take vitals and provide other types of services.
What are the risks associated with allowing a medical assistant to administer medications?
Allowing a medical assistant to administer medications might be fatal without assistance or guidance from the Physician concerned. Not only that the medical assistants are to be properly trained in minimum medications viz. stitching, dressing,plastering themselves so that the Doctors may be relieved from these minor jobs and concentrate on serious assignments.In Kolkata at a Government Hospital a IVth class staff was seen stitching a patient with profuse bleeding from his head. This sort of irresponsible act without adequate training on the plea of lack of staff might endanger the lives of the patients.
Can pac administer medication to patient?
Like a patient care aide or a certified nursing assistant? Yes, in some states they are allowed to administer certain medications after they obtain additional certification.
Will a medical assistant be charged with a felony or misdemeanor for prescribing the wrong medication?
Medical assistants are not allowed to prescribe any medications. That would be practicing medicine without a license.
Can a cna give medications?
No, one must be a licensed nurse or physician to administer medications in a hospital.
Who is allowed to give B-12 injctions?
Any nurse (LPN, RN), or Medical Assistant. Lots of times, however, patients are tought to self administer the drug.
Extemporaneous preparation of unit dose medications must have?
the sign-out initials of nurses who administer medications to patients.
Will training medical assistants how to give TB skin tests assist in the functioning of a medical clinic that is short staff and few Registered Nurses?
State regulations vary; in New York, a medical assistant may not administer tuberculin skin tests.
Why is a Expanded Functions Dental Assistant not permitted to administer local anesthetics?
An Expanded Functions Dental Assistant is not permitted to administer local anesthetics because they have not been trained to administer local anesthetics, and they are not trained to handle the potential complications of administering local anesthetics.
State laws for medical assistant?
all state regulations allow a medical assistant to obtain vital signs (blood pressure, temperature and pulse) and draw blood (phlebotomy). She may administer intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections of approved drugs, which vary per state. In most states, a medical assistant may administer medication that is prepared as a unit dose (individually prepared, single dose). She may also assist in minor in-office surgical procedures and apply simple wound dressings. A medical assistant may also collect and run simple laboratory tests, such as urinalysis, complete blood count, and throat and nasal swabs. All tasks preformed must be associated with an order written by an acceptable licensed medical practitioner (physician, surgeon, nurse practitioner, physician assistant).
