Kinn's the Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach - Hardcover

Proctor, Deborah B., RN; Adams, Alexandra Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455726788 ISBN 13: 9781455726783

Verlag: Saunders, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Prepare for a successful career in medical assisting! Kinn's The Medical Assistant, 12th Edition helps you learn the real-world administrative and clinical skills essential to working in the health care setting. Administrative coverage ranges from professionalism and interpersonal skills to billing and coding and electronic health records; clinical content teaches how to assist with medications, diagnostic procedures, and surgeries. And no other comprehensive medical assisting text can match its coverage of assisting with medical specialties! Written by medical assisting experts Alexandra Adams and Deborah Proctor, this classic resource also includes an Evolve companion website with practical exercises and activities, videos, and review questions for the CMA and RMA certification exams.

• More chapters on assisting with medical specialties than any other Medical Assisting text prepare you to assist in specialty exams and make you better qualified to work in specialty fields like cardiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, gynecology, and neurology.
• Step-by-step, illustrated procedures make it easier to learn and understand medical assisting skills, and include rationales for each step.
• Threaded case scenarios help you develop critical thinking skills and apply concepts to realistic administrative and clinical situations.
• Patient education and legal and ethical issues are described in relation to the Medical Assistant's job.
• A Portfolio Builder on the Evolve website helps you demonstrate proficiency to potential employers.
• Detailed learning objectives and vocabulary with definitions in each chapter help you study more effectively, with connections icons linking concepts in the text to exercises in the study guide and on the Evolve companion website.
• Study Guide includes a variety of exercises to test your knowledge and critical thinking skills, case scenarios from the book, and a Procedure Checklists Manual. Sold separately.

• NEW! Charting examples within the procedures are highlighted for easier learning.
• UPDATED coverage of the Electronic Health Record ensures that you are familiar with the technology you'll use on the job.
• UPDATED content on alternative therapies and treatment includes the latest herbal remedies such as red rice yeast for lowering cholesterol, St. John's Wort for depression, and probiotic bacteria for GI maladies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Saunders
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1455726788
• ISBN 13: 9781455726783
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1366
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Dario flaccovio editore, cricscuolo barbara; 3450270287; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; viale enrico forlanini, 21; milano; 20100; Italien