Hi there, If you need help with doing blood draws go to you tube they have all kinds of videos on proper techniques on how take blood the different vein sites. I would recommend watching these over and over till you feel confident enough to do them yourself. Also with doing vital signs, don't you friends around that you practice on? If you still need an externship site to go to...check with a local free clinic in your area. These clinics are for people who can not pay for their care or are low income. The way these clinics work is they operate on donations from the community and funds from the Government and all the people that work there volunteer their time. This would be a perfect place for you. Talk to your career development person at school and get your externship setup and when you start it be sure to take notes and be sure to ask lots of questions this is one of the ways you learn as you go. In the meantime review all of the skills you learned in school, and don't say you don't have time to do it because you do. If you want to be a Medical Assistant bad enough, then you will find the time. When you believe in yourself and in all that you learned...you will be able to do a lot. With all the energy you waste typing on here and asking everyone for help you can be reviewing all your notes and all your textbooks...you are the only one that can do this, no one can do your work for you. Good luck.

Your Professional Title/Credentials: NCMA, (NCCT), CNA

Are You Still In School? No

Are You Working? Yes

Im sure going to try...I just wish my college didnt do this to students, they are deff. overrated! I can try to practice as much as I can but some things I wasnt taught which is scary!

Hi there, Don't try, take that word out of your vocabulary. You need to replace it with words that are positive, Okay!!! Here is a saying for you, it really works when your mind is set in this way. "A Samurai falls down seven times, he get's up eight." What this means is you become the Samurai. You will make mistakes, you learn from these mistakes and you will grow from these lessons and you will grow from it and you will be the best Medical Assistant you can be. Take your skills and become one with it, in return it will become one with you. You can do it, now get out there and do it. Good luck and God bless and always keep the sun to your back, that way you will always be able to see things clearly and nothing blind you from seeing the way things are and will be.

Your Professional Title/Credentials: NCMA, (NCCT), CNA

Are You Still In School? No

Are You Working? Yes