Course Name: OR Initial Chiropractic Assistant Training

Catalog Course # CAT42

Description

This PACE and ORBCE-approved course will provide students with the skills necessary to assist their DC with basic healthcare duties in the front and back office.  Topics covered include chiropractic principles, standards of care, medical terminology, documentation, basic anatomy, boundary training, HIPAA, charting, billing codes, draping, safety in clinic, and physiotherapy modalities including ultrasound, heat, ice, electrical muscle stimulation (high volt and low volt), interferential current, traction, and decompression. Students will need to practice therapies with their doctor, and he will need to sign off on 4 hours of on-the-job clinical experience to successfully complete this course.

This 12-hour course is broken into 1-hour sections.  All lesson quizzes are multiple-choice.  There are 48 possible points for this course.  Each quiz consists of 4 questions designed to test knowledge of the lesson, objectives, and section goals.  Students must successfully answer 3 of the 4 questions correctly to receive completion for that individual section.  Students must attain an overall score of 36 out of 48, which is equivalent to 75% or better to pass the course.  Students will be allowed to retake each section quiz after re-studying the course material for a minimum of 5 minutes.  Each section has a multiple-choice test, there are 48 possible points for this course.

Learning Objectives

1.    Identify ethical issues dealing with professional rights, responsibilities, duties, and standards of conduct by exploring legal statutes from Oregon with regard to chiropractors and CAs. 

2.    Define doctor conduct, professional CCA conduct, patient conduct, and unprofessional conduct.

3.    Recognize unprofessional conduct, improper billing, harassment, violence, drug or alcohol use, and potential conflicts of interest. 

4.    Explain the vertebral subluxation complex to a patient

5.    Memorize medical terminology

6.    Identify spinal anatomy

7.    Properly drape a patient to maintain modesty after getting informed consent

8.    Recognize cultural differences in patients

9.    Ensure and follow patient privacy protocols

10.  Define Physiotherapy & the Scope of Physical Therapeutics

11.  Properly document and  coding with the use of modifiers treatment procedures

12.  Document daily treatment notes using (S.O.A.P.) format

13.  Develop Skills to perform surface and underwater ultrasound, low-volt and high-volt electric muscle stimulation, interferential current, heat, ice, traction, and decompression.

Approvals

PACE #1771

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Price: $179

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