My Medical Assisting

Rules are a basic law that we must abide by. Schools in particular are a common place for rules to be followed by students. Each classroom has their own rules as well such as no texting in class or not being late. Society today is built around rules; we rely on rules as a form of societal conduct. Even if we like them or not, or abide by them or don’t, rules are everywhere. We can all think of a time where we have been somewhere, where rules were implied. Whether it’s at school, work, store, bank, anywhere really. These rules are sometimes directly implied or unspoken but followed. I can remember a specific time I had to abide by rules, my Medical Assisting class. Although being deeply frustrated in a strict nature of a classroom that seemed

We were expected not to eat in the class and clinic due to the fact that this was a medical class with medical tools and things that should not be around food. Our instructor never told us specifically, “You guys can’t eat in here”, it was more of a common sense rule that we all followed. Some of these unspoken rules were in our clinic. These rules included to be quiet as if we were in an actually medical office and to not mess around/ horseplay. In the clinic there are needles for injections, dummies, EKG machines, etc. Since there was many equipment around we knew as students not to mess around in there because we could get injured easily or possibly break something. Not to mention we were all pretty mature enough to know better of what could go wrong. Texting was another unspoken rule that we had. We all knew better not to text during an instruction because the information we received was vital to our learning. Even though we didn’t have to be told these rules we all still followed them as if we were

Two of the 29 students were kicked out of the class due to ditching the class and not showing up to their job site. Some consequences were not as extreme as those incidents. If a student was messing around in the clinic or was texting during an instruction they would not allowed to be able to participate in the procedures that day. These rules were placed for a reason and came with serious consequences if they weren’t obeyed. Our instructor was very clear about that and did not make any exceptions. We all knew the rules at the beginning of the course and signed a contract saying we would abide by them, so there was no arguing with the consequences. Most of the rules that were placed could lead to the student getting kicked out of the class and stop them from receiving their certificate. We also knew the payoff for abiding by the rules which was to receive our certification as a Medical Assistant, something that people pay thousands of dollars for schooling and we were going to get it for free. None of us wanted to risk that and it was something we all were very grateful