Kinn's the Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 60th Anniversary Editioin - Rilegato

Proctor, Deborah B. , R. N.; Niedzwiecki, Brigitte, R.N.; Pepper, Julie; Madero, Payel Bhattacharya; Garrels, Marti

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0323353207 ISBN 13: 9780323353205

Casa editrice: W B Saunders Co, 2016

Riassunto

Comprehensive Medical Assisting begins with Kinn! Elsevier's 60^th Anniversary edition of Kinn's The Medical Assistant, 13^th Edition provides you with real-world administrative and clinical skills that are essential to working in the modern medical office. An applied learning approach to the MA curriculum is threaded throughout each chapter to help you further develop the tactile and critical thinking skills necessary for working in today's healthcare setting. Paired with our adaptive solutions, real -world simulations, EHR documentation and HESI remediation and assessment, you will learn the leading skills of modern administrative and clinical medical assisting in the classroom!

• Basics of Diagnostic Coding
• prepares you to use the ICD-10 coding system.
• Learning objectives listed in the same order as content makes it easy to review material.
• Clinical procedures integrated into the TOC give you a quick reference point.
• Professional behavior boxes provide guidelines on how to interact with patients, families, and coworkers.
• Patient education and legal and ethical issues are described in relation to the Medical Assistant's job.
• Applied approach to learning helps you use what you've learned in the clinical setting.
• Learning objectives and vocabulary with definitions highlight what's important in each chapter.
• Critical thinking applications test your understanding of the content.
• Step-by-step procedures explain complex conditions and abstract concepts.
• Rationales for each procedure clarify the need for each step and explains why it's being performed.
• Portfolio builder helps you demonstrate your mastery of the material to potential employers.

• NEW! Chapter on The Health Record
• reviews how you'll be working with a patient's medical record.
• NEW! Chapter on Technology in the Medical Office introduces you to the role EHR technology plays in the medical office.
• NEW! Chapter on Competency-Based Education helps you understand how your mastery of the material will affect your ability to get a job.
• NEW! Clinical procedure videos helps you visualize and review key procedures.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Brigitte Niedzwiecki began her healthcare career as a nurse, working in the hospital with surgical and pediatric patients and also in urgent care. After obtaining her master's degree in nursing, Brigitte worked in patient and staff education, as a software trainer, and as a nurse educator before transitioning into education. She has been the Medical Assisting program director at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, during which time she has participated in reviewing and writing and has helped develop state and national Medical Assisting curricula. She is also lead author of Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals, a related MA core text designed primarily for programs that do not offer a separate A&P course and are focused on certification.

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college's Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn's The Medical Assistant, and Today's Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.

Martha (Marti) Garrels is a former Professor and Program Director of the Medical Assisting program at Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend, Indiana, and Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland, Washington. She has been an active member of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) for more than 25 years.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W B Saunders Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0323353207
• ISBN 13: 9780323353205
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1285
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: LSWR Group; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; Italia