My Path to a New Career

I think I realized that I wanted to have a career in the medical field sometime during high school. I went back and forth between the legal field and the medical field. It was the medical field that won that battle, hands down. When I was about 22 years old, I started medical assistant school. I never finished but got three quarters of the way through. I found out I was pregnant during school and left to move back home.

After I had the baby, I found a medical assisting job. Actually, I went through about five jobs in the course of a few years. I found one that I really enjoyed, in an OB/GYN office. I always loved pregnancy and babies so I finally found what I thought was my calling. I worked in a few different offices part time. I was mainly at one though and stayed there for a total of seven years. I learned a lot and had a lot of duties. I worked at the front desk answering phones, filing charts, checking patients in and out, taking copays and balancing the day's income. I worked in the back office taking blood pressures, drawing blood, setting up non-stress tests, assisting the physicians with minor surgeries and office procedures, sterilizing instruments and ordering supplies. I eventually started doing other office duties as well. I worked in the billing office some days and was an assistant to the RN other days, calling patients with test results. I also learned how to pre-certify surgeries and C-sections. I did a little bit of everything in that office and learned a lot. I loved it there.