The role of a Medical Assistants is practitioners who adopt a wide range of roles in physicians' offices and other health care settings, and are considered by physicians as vital partners in increasing medical office productivity. Medical Assistants mainly handle the administrative portion of the doctor’s office. Medical assistants are also somewhat hands on with patients but not as much as other medical professionals.
If working in an office setting is not an environment you would relish to work in and you would relish to be more hands on with management of how patients are taken care of, consider becoming a medical- surgical nurse. Medical-surgical nursing practice is a specialty practice area in professional nursing. Medical-surgical nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human replications of individuals and groups to genuine or potential health quandaries. The goal of medical-surgical nursing is to avail the individual or group in promoting, renovating, or maintaining optimal health. The medical-surgical nurse is adroit in assessing, diagnosing, and treating genuine or potential alterations in functional ability and lifestyle.
If working one on one with people is something you authentically prefer consider a vocation as a licensed practical nurse. The LPN works with other licensed health care professionals to assess clients (patients) as well as to coordinate and implement nursing care.