Clinical Medical Assistant

Lesson 14 – Assignment

Lesson 14 Assignment: Patient Concerns and Questions

Name: Ashlyn Clayton
Assignment Overview
This assignment helps future clinical medical assistant develop a deeper understanding of the challenges
patients face with their medical disorders. Use the Internet to research diseases and diagnostic procedures.
Based on the research, prepare questions that can later be used in clinical practice to help patients manage
anxiety.

Student Deliverables
 Responses to the questions based on online exploration

Assignment Instructions:
Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Generate questions about the challenges patients with medical disorders face.
Think about your patients that have conditions related to the EENT, pulmonary, immunology and
allergy, and dermatology, and endocrinology. What are some patient challenges with these identified
disorders?
(1) optimizing the use of currently available therapies to ensure adequate glycemic, blood
pressure, and lipid control and to reduce complications; (2) educating patients on diabetes self-
management; (3) improving patient adherence to lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions; (4)
reducing barriers to the early use of insulin; and (5) improving the delivery of health care to
people with chronic conditions.
 Identify a specific condition or think in a general way about patients who face serious diseases
or disorders.

1. Write down ten questions your patients might have about diagnostic tests, treatments, actual
experiences during a procedure or test, or living with a serious disease. Consider fears, concerns,
confidentiality, lifestyle changes, disease management, or other challenges that come to mind.
How Will I Receive the Diabetes Education I Need? What Should My Blood Glucose Levels
Be? How Often Should I Check My Blood Glucose? Do I Need to Take Medication? Will I Need
to Have Regular Medical Tests Done? How can I change my lifestyle and diet in a way that will
be healthy? What are the side effects of my medications/insulin? What are the long-term
complications of diabetes, and how can I avoid them? How do other factors such as high
cholesterol and high blood pressure affect me if I have diabetes? How often should I be seeing
my doctor to optimize my diabetes management ?

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 Clinical Medical Assistant
Lesson 14 – Assignment

Step 2: Watch selected videos on specific disorders.

Using the website provided, watch each video to learn more about specific disorders.

 Health Videos: Go to MedlinePlus at

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/videosandcooltools.html. Then click on “Health Videos”.
Watch the following videos:
 Ultrasound
 Allergies
 Blood Pressure
 Stroke
 Parkinson’s disease

Step 3: Submit your assignment.

When you have completed the assignment, save a copy for yourself and upload a copy.

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