Study Guide and Procedure Checklist Manual for Kinn's The Clinical Medical Assistant - E-Book: Study Guide and Procedure Checklist Manual for Kinn's The Clinical Medical Assistant - E-Book

by MSN Niedzwiecki RN, CMA (AAMA) Pepper BS

Overview

Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn’s The Clinical Medical Assistant, 14^th Edition, this study guide and procedure checklist manual is the essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and ensure your mastery of clinical medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of exercises to reinforce your understanding of common clinical skills — including new certification preparation questions that offer additional practice for certification exams, a new chapter review of medical terminology and anatomy, and need-to-know workplace applications. Trusted for more than 60 years Kinn’s Clinical Study Guide and Procedure Checklist Manual also features competency checklists to clearly assess your performance and progression from day one until you land your first job as a Medical Assistant.

• Hundreds of practice questions test your knowledge and comprehension with vocabulary review, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions.
• Skills practice, workplace applications, and online activities promote your critical thinking skills.
• Procedure checklists help you track your performance of key toward mastery of key skills and job-readiness.
• Work products allows you to provide documentation or file in professional portfolios to use in job-searching.
• Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allows you to easily test your comprehension as you go.
• Perforated pages are easily removed for on-the-go study or turn-in assignments and evaluations.

• NEW! Chapter reviews medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and pathology to help you build a solid medical foundation.
• NEW! Streamlined presentation of the material combines chapters in an easier-to-read format.
• NEW! Certification Preparation questions help you focus on becoming certification-ready from Day 1.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323613620
Publisher:	Saunders, W. B. Company
Publication date:	06/23/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	832
File size:	23 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

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, first as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record. 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 has taught for the past 18 years. Julie is also the program director for the college's new Health Navigator program. She has served as reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including SimChart for the Medical Office; she currently serves as sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office and co-author of Health Insurance Today, 7e. She is taking over sole authorship of what will be titled Beik's Health Insurance Today, 8e
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, first as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record. 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 has taught for the past 18 years. Julie is also the program director for the college’s new Health Navigator program. She has served as reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including SimChart for the Medical Office; she currently serves as sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office and co-author of Health Insurance Today, 7e. She is taking over sole authorship of what will be titled Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8e

Table of Contents

PART 1 – Introduction to Medical Assisting 1. The Professional Medical Assistant and the Healthcare Team 2. Health Records 3. Introduction to Anatomy and Medical Terminology

PART 2 – Fundamentals of Clinical Medical Assisting 4. Infection Control 5. Vital Signs 6. Physical Examination 7. Patient Coaching 8. Nutrition and Health Promotion 9. Surgical Supplies and Instruments 10. Assisting with Surgical Procedures 11. Principles of Electrocardiography 12. Medical Emergencies

PART 3 – Assisting with Medications 13. Principles of Pharmacology 14. Pharmacology Math 15. Administering Medications

PART 4 – Assisting with Medical Specialties 16. Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology 17. Dermatology 18. Allergy and Infectious Disease 19. Gastroenterology 20. Orthopedics and Rheumatology 21. Neurology 22. Behavioral Health 23. Endocrinology 24. Cardiology 25. Pulmonology 26. Urology and Male Reproduction 27. Obstetrics and Gynecology 28. Pediatrics 29. Geriatrics

PART 5 – Assisting with Clinical Laboratory Procedures 30. Introduction to the Clinical Laboratory 31. Urinalysis 32. Blood Collection 33. Analysis of Blood 34. Microbiology and Immunology

PART 6 – Job Seeking 35. Skills and Strategies