OVERVIEW

Alabama Chiropractic Assistant Training Course is organized by DConline.

Course Dates: Nov 8, 2022 - Jan 8, 2024

Course Description:
This 45-hour course is designed to train the Alabama chiropractic assistant. Upon completion, the student will receive a certificate suitable for framing from a CCE-approved Chiropractic College. The class has several modules that are all included in the tuition price. The modules and featured topics are listed below.

This is a specific course designed for Alabama.

Outline:
Module
• Introduction:
Chiropractic philosophy, spinal anatomy, subluxation complex, and spinal pain
• CA Duties
Responsibilities of the Chiropractic Assistant, medical records, patient communications, SOAP notes, and confidentiality
• Emergency Procedures
Chiropractic Office Emergencies, red flags to care, includes bloodborne pathogens, recognition of emergency situations, performing the primary and secondary survey
• Communications
Patient communication skills, CA to-patient relationships, office etiquette, letters, and report construction
• Technical Skills
Obtaining a history, vital signs, record-keeping skills, consent to transfer records
• Law and Ethics
Confidentiality, respondent superior, sources of malpractice,
professional boundaries; definitions, prevention, sexual harassment, and developing professional relationships
• Human Body in Health and Disease
Discusses commonly encountered diseases and disorders seen in chiropractic practice.
• Physiotherapy
The physiology of wound repair, applications, indications, and contraindications of heat, diathermy, electrotherapy, cryotherapy, traction, and construction of exercise programs
• Alabama Rules and Regulations

Objectives:
In this course, the learner will:
• Discover what is meant by a "chiropractic philosophy" of care.
• Learn about Alabama Rules and regulations.
• Learn about the history of chiropractic.
• Learn about basic spinal anatomy.
• Investigate the musculoskeletal and nervous system anatomy.
• Identify what is meant by the term "subluxation complex".
• Broaden the understanding of the chiropractic profession as a whole.
• Learn the common vocabulary terms related to chiropractic.
• Learn about the duties of a chiropractic assistant.
• Learn about medical records and the skills related to great medical records note-taking
• Identify some of the keys to working with worker's compensation and motor vehicle collision cases.
• Discover what "informed consent" is and how to apply this to chiropractic care.
• Get an overview of how to use good office etiquette to keep the office a friendly work environment.
• Develop an understanding of what types of emergencies can present to a chiropractic office and what you can do to provide the correct care.
• Learn about blood-borne pathogens and how to correctly clean up spills.
• Learn about working with patients from different cultures.
• Develop skills related to time management.
• Learn about the presenting signs and symptoms of common cardiovascular emergencies that you may or may not ever see in chiropractic practice.
• Learn about biohazard waste procedures.
• Identify methods of controlling bleeding or hemorrhage.
• Learn about common techniques for good listening skills.
• Learn why listening skills are so important to the CA.
• Discover the importance of reviewing all correspondence.
• Interpretation of some common body language signs.
• Learn what vital signs are and how to obtain them.
• Learn the key components of a good history.
• Know what "red flags" are for chiropractic.
• Assist the CA in understanding what "professional boundaries" are and how these boundaries apply to their job duties and working environment.
• Learn about patient's rights.
• Discuss many of the conditions that a Doctor of Chiropractic will encounter in daily practice.
• Learn about legal issues associated with physiotherapy.
• Learn about the different forms of physiotherapy and how to safely apply.
• Investigate the concepts of exercise and rehabilitation.