"Law and Ethics for Medical Careers, 4th Edition", provides an overview of the laws and ethics you should know to help you give competent, compassionate care to patients that is within acceptable legal and ethical boundaries. The text can also serve as a guide to help you resolve the many legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to ...
This best-selling, ability-based text, with a complete learning package, has been thoroughly updated and expanded to provide comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills required for working as a nursing assistant in acute care, long-term care, or home health care setting. The inviting, four-colour design, with screened procedures, additional ...
"MA Notes" is a pocket sized, spiral bound reference for medical assistants and medical assisting students. It focuses on frequently used but infrequently memorized information for both the front and back office. Subject areas include: billing and coding tips, pharmacology, OSHA regulations, well child and sick child care, schedule planning, and ...
Completely updated and revised with a greatly expanded administrative content, this comprehensive text reflects the knowledge, responsibilities and procedures most often required of the medical assistant today. Covering both the administrative and clinical aspects of the medical assisting profession, the text presents the most current concepts, ...
Drawn from the administrative material covered in the comprehensive book "Kinn's The Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 10th Edition", this text helps students master the skills needed in the front office of a physician practice. Building on Kinn's, this volume introduces an applied learning approach that focuses on the real-world ...
This text describes the clinical skills and laboratory procedures used in the medical office. It presents step-by-step directions, with rationales, of various procedures, including: the checking of vital signs; the administration of medication; collection of specimens; emergency procedures; and tests for allergies, pregnancy and mononucleosis. The ...
This text presents material for the beginning clinician in the important areas of genetics, immunology, and infectious diseases and analyzes disease mechanisms as well as the signs and symptoms of different disease syndromes. Organized by the major body systems and organs, the function of each is discussed in normal and abnormal conditions. Also ...
Offering quick access to the pathological conditions most commonly seen in the physician's office, this portable text/reference is ideal for administrative and clinical medical assistants who have responsibilities such as billing, coding, telephone screening, taking patient examinations, understanding diagnostic and treatment procedures, and ...
This well-rounded text offers medical assisting students information on current practices, procedures, medications and drugs that are used today. It prepares them to function effectively in the physician's office, to understand the PDR, and to transmit appropriate and accurate information to patients. Students are guided through a basic math ...
This textbook for nursing assistants will prepare students not only to function in the traditional nursing assistant role in nursing homes, hospitals, and home health, but also will prepare students to advance their careers. A nursing assistant student who uses this text will have a firm foundation by which to transition to an LPN and ultimately ...
Moving from her career as a successful Washington attorney back to her native Tennessee, Jourdan recognizes her father to be more heroic and devoted than any politician shed ever met. Told with tremendous heart, this is the story of how, sometimes, you can--and should--go home again.
This knowledge-packed resource provides a comprehensive yet concise review of primary-care information for students and clinicians preparing for the Certification (PANCE) and Recertification (PANRE) examinations. Readers can test their knowledge with over 1,100 Board-type questions. Written by leaders in PA education and clinical practice, this ...
This book provides the fundamentals of drug administration, drug laws, principles of pharmacology, drug handling procedures, physician's orders, routes of administration, dosage calculation, and drug actions related to specific body systems and disorders. New boxed readings for the fifth edition include Legal and Ethical Issues, and Health Care: ...
Reflecting contemporary practice, this text explains the general roles and responsibilities of the nursing assistant, showing how these roles correspond to the performance of procedures and interaction with other health care professionals. This edition includes new chapters on comfort, rest and sleep; personal care and grooming; and persons and ...
This medical assisting certification exam review book was primarily designed to prepare the medical assisting candidate to successfully pass a national medical assisting certification examination. The authors who have years of experience working in health care education struggled to find a product that was up to date, comprehensive yet concise and ...
When hospital-trained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of the Amish, she discovers an approach to giving birth which would change her life forever. A Midwife's Story is a life-affirming book that never fails to enlighten, inform and surprise. Honest and ultimately very moving, it is inspirational reading for all student ...
"Medical Office Procedures" is a text-workbook that introduces and teaches medical assisting administrative tasks; teaches records management, medical communications, and scheduling skills; and describes procedures for preparing patients' charts and bills. Practice management and finances are also addressed. Multi-day simulations provide real ...
This new 4-color, step-by-step approach to medical transcription is a complete learning package that includes textbook and interactive CD-ROM containing a total of 10 hours of authentic physician dictation, Instructor's Manual, and Transcript Keys. It provides a glimpse into the practice of transcribing in each medical specialty with transcription ...
Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, "The Pharmacy Technicianā s Pocket Drug Reference" contains the five main pieces of information sought by a pharmacy technician about a drug product. For each of more than 950 of the most commonly prescribed drugsā an increase of more than 75 over the third editionā the book ...
New edition of a classic text. Offers nursing, medical assisting, and other health professions students an excellent resource for learning common medical conditions, about 350 in number. Each condition is presented in an easy to follow format including description, etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic procedures, treatment, prognosis, and ...
This updated edition of Comprehensive Medical Assisting features expanded chapters examining geriatrics and pediatrics, diagnostic imaging, medical and surgical specialties, and clinical laboratory safety and regulations. All facets of the medical assistant profession, from pharmacology, clinical laboratory, OSHA and CLIA guidelines, law and ...
This brand new, four color, complete with interactive CD, Medical Assisting text is all about Connections: Medical Assistant's connections with patients, physicians, offices and jobs. A student's connection with the book, their instructor and their newly chosen profession is a recipe for success. This text is available as one comprehensive ...
Comprehensive, yet easy to read, this practical textbook introduces you to basic pharmacology principles, with an emphasis on applying them to the kinds of clinical situations you will encounter on the job. You'll learn about how different drugs work in the body, drug dosage calculation methods, drug administration routes and procedures, the ...
This new 10th edition includes the most current content to meet national curriculum and accreditation standards and still has the depth and breadth expected of "Kinn's The Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach". Its instructive features, such as chapter outlines and learning objectives, enhance both the learning and teaching experience. ...
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