The medical assistant : administrative and clinical

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The medical assistant : administrative and clinical

Mary E. Kinn, MaryAnn Woods

W.B. Saunders, c1999

8th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Here's the New Edition of the complete, authoritative, and student-friendly text on medical assisting. It clearly explains the administrative and clinical skills readers need to become successful Medical Assisting professionals. The state-of-the-art 8th Edition integrates all topics and skills competencies required by the new AAMA Role Delineation Study-and features new, full-colour artwork. Features: * WHAT'S NEW: * Complies with all accreditation requirements contained in the AAMA's Occupational Analysis of the Medical Assisting Profession. * Lists what Role Delineation competencies are covered in each chapter. * Makes reading more exciting and stimulating with brand-new, full-colour illustrations throughout the text. * Offers an integrated "total learning system" featuring a new Student Learning and Competency Resource and interactive CD-ROM as well as a new Instructor Curriculum Guide and EXAMaster. * Builds comprehension and problem-solving skills with new "Memory Joggers" questions, "How Did I Do" answers, and critical-thinking challenge exercises. * Presents new information that discuss legal/ethical issues; patient education; skills and responsibilities; personal qualities, and AAMA Role Delineation Competencies. * Illustrates vital components of medical assisting practice with new "Tools of the Profession" design theme and elements. * FEATURES: * Examines in-depth the knowledge and skills students need to prepare for the Medical Assisting Certification Exam. * Incorporates straightforward language and a real-world orientation that make it easy to apply knowledge from the text on the job. * Facilitates reading and study with chapter outlines, vocabulary definitions, and learning objectives. * Discusses anatomy and physiology relevant to important concepts.

目次

  • Unit 1 Professionalism - legal concepts - communciation skills: professionalism - introduction to medical assisting, medical assisting externship, brief history of medicine
  • legal concepts -medical practice systems, medical ethics, medicine and the law
  • communciation skills - interpersonal skills and human relations, patient reception, apointments, scheduling and time management, telephone techniques. Part 2 Administrative precedures - practice finance - advanced administrative skills: administrative procedures - correspondence and mailing processing, dictation and transcription, the computer in medical practice, filing methods, record storage and retention, health information management
  • practice finances - professional fees and credit arrangements, managing practice finances, banking services and procedures, billing and collection procedures, health insurance and managed care, coding and claims processing
  • advanced administrative skills - assisting with library, research, travel and meetings, office environment, management responsibilities. Part 3 Clinical medical assisting: fundamental principles - patient assessment, infection control, vital signs and anthropometric measurement
  • patient care - assisting with primary physical examinations, assisting in cardiology, assisting in pulmonary medicine, assisting in otorhinolaryngology, assisting in gynaecology and obstetric medicine, assisting in neurology, assisting in dermatology, assisting in orthopaedic medicine, assisting in urology and male reproduction, assisting with the elder client, assisting with office emergency procedures
  • diagnositic orders - assisting with diagnostic imaging and therapeutic modalities, clinical laboratory, urinalysis, phelbotomy, haematology and serology, bacteriology
  • advance patient care - applying nutrition and exercise guidlines, applying the principles of pharmacology, administering medications, preparing for surgery, surgical methods, assisting with surgical procedures.

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