Workbook to accompany Delmar's comprehensive medical assisting : administrative and clinical competencies / Gerry A. Brasin, Barbara M. Dahl

Contents

Chapter 1: The Medical assisting as profession
Chapter 2: Health care settings and the health care team
Chapter 3: History of medicine
Chapter 4: Therapeutic communication skills
Chapter 6: The Therapeutic approach to the patient with the life-threatening illness
Chapter 7: Legal considerations
Chapter 8: Ethnical considerations
Chapter 9: Emergency procedures and first aid
Chapter 10: Creating the facility environment
Chapter 11: Computers in the ambulatory care setting
Chapter 12: Telephone techniques
Chapter 13: Patient scheduling
Chapter 14: Medical records management
Chapter 15: Written communication. Chapter
Chapter 16: Transcription
Chapter 17: Daily financial practices
Chapter 18: Medical insurance
Chapter 19: Medical insurance coding
Chapter 20: Billing and collections
Chapter 21: Accounting practices
Chapter 22: Infection control, medical asepsis, and sterilization
Chapter 23: Taking a medical history the patient's chart, and methods of documentation
Chapter 24: Vital signs and measurements
Chapter 25: The Physical examination
Chapter 26: Obstetrics and gynecology
Chapter 27: Pediatrics
Chapter 28: Male reproductive system
Chapter 29: Gerontology
Chapter 30: Examinations and procedures of body systems.
Chapter 31: Assisting with minor surgery
Chapter 32: Diagnostic imagining
Chapter 33: Rehabilitation and therapeutic modalities
Chapter 34: Nutrition in health and disease
Chapter 35: Basic pharmacology
Chapter 36: Calculation of medication dosage and medication administration
Chapter 37: Electrocardiography
Chapter 39: Introduction to the medical laboratory
Chapter 40: Phlebotomy: venipuncture and capillary puncture
Chapter 41: Hematology
Chapter 42: Urinalysis
Chapter 43: Basic microbiology
Chapter 44: Specialty laboratory tests
Chapter 45: The Medical assistant as office manager
Chapter 46: The Medical assistant as human resources manager
Chapter 47: Preparing for medical assisting credentials
Chapter 48: Employment strategies.