Arizona Chiropractic Assistant Training Course

Arizona Chiropractic Assistant Training Course is organized by DConline.

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

Course Description:
This course is designed to help train the Arizona Chiropractic Assistant, who will work under the license of a doctor of chiropractic only, and the doctor must register the C.A. under his or her license.

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 20 commonly encountered diseases and disorders seen in chiropractic practice.
• Physical medicine modalities and therapeutic procedures 
The physiology of wound repair, applications, indications, and contraindications of heat, diathermy, electrotherapy, cryotherapy, traction, and construction of exercise programs. Approved for CA training in physical medicine modalities and therapeutic procedures.
• Radiographic Protection
Basics of X-ray physics, gonad shielding, and X-ray processing.

Objectives:
In this course, the learner will:
• Discover what is meant by a "chiropractic philosophy" of care.
• Learn about a Doctor of Chiropractic's education and look at 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.
• Understand what "professional boundaries" are and how these boundaries apply to duties and the 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 physical medicine modalities and therapeutic procedures.
• Learn about the different forms of physical medicine modalities and therapeutic procedures and how to safely apply these procedures.
• Investigate the concepts of exercise and rehabilitation.
• Learn about the basic terminology of radiology and radiographic guidelines that are used in chiropractic.
• Understand how to protect the patient during radiographic examinations.