Beating Burnout: How to Overcome MA Staffing Shortages
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of three articles focused on medical assistant recruitment and retention.
- November 9, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
Technician Recognition is on the Rise
Editor's Note: Pharmacy Technician Day is Oct. 19! The following editorial was written by Jessica Langley-Loep, executive director of education and advocacy at NHA, on her recent attendance of the NCPA Annual Convention and in celebration of Pharmacy Technician Day.
- October 18, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
Apple Valley High CTE Program: Persistence Pays Off
CTE Educator? Let's build your pathway to success.
CTE Teacher Builds Region’s First Certified Medical Assistant Path for High School Students
- October 13, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
In Their Own Words: NHA Career Bridge Scholarship Winners Share Their Stories
Oluwafemi Awomoyi, Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA)
As an immigrant from Nigeria, Africa, seeing my people die from diseases that are preventable or even insignificant to the Western world was always a difficult pill for me to swallow. In one fateful weekend during my teenage years, I lost my three-year-old cousin. She died of pneumonia. I can still picture her twin brother crying inconsolably, witnessing his best friend weak and gasping for air before she died. She could have survived with just a simple shot of the pneumococcal vaccine. That day, as I was feeling angry at the world, I decided that I would go the distance to prevent other unnecessary losses of life. I would become a renowned physician.
- September 29, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
The Female Frontline: How Healthcare Is Affected by the "She-cession"
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many essential healthcare workers—primarily women—to leave the workforce. This has brought up gender equality issues in the workplace, and many employers are taking action.
- September 15, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
Post-Pandemic Future is Bright for Technicians
Tapping pharmacy technicians as immunizers opens up greater visibility and new source of health care labor.
- August 25, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
ORCA Program: Paving the Path for Online CTE Success
Oregon Charter Academy Creates Online Medical Assisting Program That Serves Students State-wide
- August 4, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
NHA’s PersonAbility™ Achieves ACPE Continuing Education Accreditation
The National Healthcareer Association (NHA) has achieved programmatic accreditation for continuing education from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education for their soft skills training program, PersonAbility™. Accredited to provide nine hours of continuing education (0.9 CEUs) for both certified pharmacy technicians and pharmacists, PersonAbility™ provides essential soft skills training to improve communication techniques, critical thinking skills, and professionalism.
- August 3, 2021 |
- Jessica Langley
2021 Industry Outlook: Trends Impacting Allied Health Professionals
NHA's 2021 Industry Outlook shares the trends impacting some of the most in-demand allied health professions. In this year's research, NHA collected insights and data from employers of allied health professionals, digging deeper to understand what they seek in candidates, what these professionals’ daily work looks like, and what traits and skills make them most successful in their roles. Download a copy or read on to learn more about this report.
- July 14, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association
Now live! The 2021 edition of access™
In writing the 2021 edition of access™: an allied health industry journal, it was not lost on us that the healthcare industry, and specifically those working on the front lines, had just gone through what might have been the most challenging year in their careers.
- July 14, 2021 |
- Jessica Langley
Surviving to Thriving: How a Pandemic Expanded Telehealth
In response to COVID-19, policy changes paved the way for a rapid expansion of telehealth. As we reflect on the past year, we can learn from the opportunities and challenges that communications technology has yielded and take steps to prepare for what might come next.
- July 14, 2021 |
- National Healthcareer Association