Happy Holidays From the Allen School Blog
From everyone here at the Allen School blog, wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, rewarding Holiday Season! Read More
5 Morning Hacks for Sleepy Medical Assistant Training Students
Getting up before the sunrise, rudely jarred into consciousness by the klaxon of your hideous alarm clock can be a difficult way to start your day. If you’re an early riser, than its no problem. But if you’re a busy parent, husband, wife, worker or any other human who has many obligations and yet, still […] Read More
How Nurse Assistant Training is like Jedi Training
With all the hullabaloo about the upcoming release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we thought it would be fun to draw some parallels between the tenets of Jedi Knight training and those of Certified Nurse Assistant training. After all, both Jedi Knights and Certified Nurse Assistants are heroes in this galaxy and galaxies […] Read More
Top 10 Techie Gifts for the Medical Billing Online Student
Yes, we know that our medical billing online students are by their very nature, tech-savvy people. After all, in order to study medical billing online, one needs to harbor an innate love of computing and telephony. Yes, the medical billing online lifestyle is one made possible by modern advancements like wireless computing, the growing ubiquity […] Read More
Wear Orange, Red, Brown and Your Job Prospects go Down
So says career coach, Janet Scarborough Civitelli in an article posted at CheatSheet.com a, money and career themed website. There is a decent amount of science behind how human beings react to different shades and colors during negotiations. Of course, the findings of color preferences tend to be highly subjective, but when applying for your […] Read More
Microsoft’s Compulsory Holiday Gift for Online Medical Coding Students
Microsoft’s Windows is probably the operating system running on nearly every online medical coding student’s computer. Whether it’s a laptop or desktop, Microsoft’s dominance in the market means your computer is likely running some version of Windows. As we’ve written about here extensively – because it matters for online medical coding students to have computers […] Read More
Medical Assistant: 2016 Job of the Year?
Every year around this time, I start scouting the predictions for where labor markets are heading in the new year. For as long as I have been doing this little year-end ritual, healthcare industry jobs have always been high on the lists of fields where job supply and security is forecast to be highest. This […] Read More
What Does the Allen School Have to be Thankful For?
This Thanksgiving, the Allen School and its students taking medical billing classes online, those studying to earn nursing assistant certification and those taking medical office assistant training have much to be thankful for. We’d like to express our gratitude in this season of thankfulness for the following: Online medical coding class students are thankful for […] Read More
Allen School Stands With Paris
This week’s appalling events remind us all how lucky we are to live in a free society. As New Yorkers, we too have been faced with the specter of violent extremism in the form of terrorist attacks. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the people of France stood by us and sent New York […] Read More
Medical Coding Online Classes and Relaxation
We see it everywhere in our busy modern lives. People working two or three jobs; managing households, raising children, paying mortgages, taking care of elderly parents and the myriad other tasks that comprise the day-to-day for millions of Americans. It has been getting worse. Even holidays, traditionally time set aside for quiet reflection and relaxation, […] Read More