Soar into the career of your choice with medical assisting’s high growth potential, diversity of skills and workplace locations. Today’s medical assistants are always expanding and changing as the healthcare environment changes. Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Procedures with Anatomy and Physiology was updated to help students as well as instructors learn these ever-changing tasks and stay current in the healthcare environment.
By:
Kathryn A. Booth (Total Care Programming),
Leesa Whicker,
Terri D. Wyman
Imprint: McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 8th Revised edition
ISBN: 9781266289538
ISBN 10: 1266289534
Pages: 1472
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Book
Publisher's Status: Active
Unit One: Medical Assisting as a Career 1 Introduction to Medical Assisting 2 Healthcare and the Healthcare Team 3 Professionalism and Success 4 Interpersonal Communication 5 Legal and Ethical Issues Unit Two: Safety and the Environment 6 Infection Control Fundamentals 7 Safety and Patient Reception 8 Office Equipment and Supplies 9 Examination and Treatment Areas Unit Three: Communication 10 Written and Electronic Documents 11 Medical Records and Documentation 12 Electronic Health Records 13 Managing Medical Records 14 Telephone Techniques 15 Patient Education Unit Four: Administrative Practices 16 Schedule Management 17 Insurance and Billing 18 Diagnostic Coding 19 Procedure Coding 20 Patient Collections and Financial Management Unit Five: Applied Anatomy and Physiology 21 Organization of the Body 22 The Integumentary System 23 The Skeletal System 24 The Muscular System 25 The Cardiovascular System 26 The Blood 27 The Lymphatic and Immune Systems 28 The Respiratory System 29 The Nervous System 30 The Urinary System 31 The Reproductive Systems 32 The Digestive System 33 The Endocrine System 34 Special Senses Unit Six: Clinical Practices 35 Infection Control Practices 36 Patient Interview and History 37 Vital Signs and Measurements 38 Assisting with a General Physical Examination 39 Assisting in Reproductive and Urinary Specialties 40 Assisting in Pediatrics 41 Assisting in Geriatrics 42 Assisting in Other Medical Specialties 43 Assisting with Eye and Ear Care 44 Assisting with Minor Surgery Unit Seven: Assisting with Diagnostics 45 Orientation to the Lab 46 Microbiology and Disease 47 Collecting, Processing, and Testing Urine and Stool Specimens 48 Collecting, Processing, and Testing Blood Specimens 49 Electrocardiography and Pulmonary Function 50 Diagnostic Imaging Unit Eight: Assisting in Therapeutics 51 Principles of Pharmacology 52 Dosage Calculation 53 Medication Administration 54 Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation 55 Nutrition and Health Unit Nine: Medical Assisting Practice 56 Practice Management 57 Emergency Preparedness 58 Preparing for the World of Work App 1 Diseases and Disorders App 2 Prefixes, Suffixes, and Word Roots in Commonly Used Medical Terms App 3 Abbreviations and Symbols Commonly Used in Medical Notations Condensed versions of this text are available: Medical Assisting: Administrative Procedures with Anatomy and Physiology includes units 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 Medical Assisting: Clinical Procedures with Anatomy and Physiology includes units 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Leesa G. Whicker, BA, CMA (AAMA) is a Certified Medical Assistant with a BA in art with a concentration in art history. She is an educator with more than 20 years of experience in the classroom. With 35 years of experience in the healthcare field as a medical assistant, a research specialist in molecular pathogenesis and infectious disease, and a medical assisting program director and instructor, she brings a broad background of knowledge and experience to the classroom. As a curriculum expert, she has served on several committees, including the Writing Team for the Common Course Library for the North Carolina Community College System and the Curriculum Committee at Central Piedmont Community College. She remains an active member of the Curriculum Committee. Leesa was among the first instructors to develop online courses and remains active in online curriculum development. She has presented Methods of Active and Collaborative learning on the national level. Her passion is finding novel and varied ways to reach the ever-changing learning styles of todays students. She currently teaches at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terri D. Wyman, AS, CPC, CMRS has 35 years of experience in the healthcare field, first as a CMA specializing in hematology/oncology and homecare and then in the medical billing and coding field. At the suggestion of a coworker, she began her career in education as instructor and program director for both medical assisting and medical billing and coding programs for several technical schools in New England. Currently, Terri is the financial applications analyst at Baystate Wing Hospital, where her love of teaching continues in the hospital setting. She is active with her local AAPC chapter and is on the National Advisory Board for the American Medical Billing Association (AMBA). She provides continuing education opportunities for AMBA members by writing numerous billing and coding programs and speaking at their national conferences on medical coding topics, including ICD-10. In the rapidly changing world of healthcare billing and coding, she is excited to continue sharing the language of billing and coding with instructors, students, and career professionals. Terri sends special thanks to Dale for his unending support and to Francis Stein, MD, whose patience with a new medical assistant years ago showed her the joy of learning and education.