Health Unit Coordinating
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The Certification Review guides readers through all of the key concepts detailed in Health Unit Coordinating--helping them to focus on what's really important and how to score to their potential on the exam. Multiple-choice questions cover theory and practice, to give readers the opportunity to confirm their knowledge of admitting and discharging patients, coordinating activities, transcribing doctor's orders, and more. This edition also contains information boxes, updated questions, and new coverage, to make it more readable, relevant, and practical for health career professionals. Features: * New to this edition: * Contains information boxes, updated questions, and new coverage, to make this Edition more readable, relevant, and practical for health career professionals. * New multiple choice questions to reflect the material in the new, 4th Edition of Health Unit Coordinating * FEATURES: * Follows the content of, and is referenced to Health Unit Coordinating so readers can easily read a topic and check the main text for more information. * Presents multiple-choice questions, simulating the actual National Health Unit Coordinator Exam, that cover theory and practice, to give readers the opportunity to confirm their knowledge of admitting and discharging patients, coordinating activities, transcribing doctors' orders, and more. * Provides answers and rationales, so readers will know not only if their answers are correct, but why. * Test-taking Tip boxes prepare readers with what to expect on the day of the test.

Table of Contents:
Section I: Orientation to the Hospital. Health Unit Coordinating: An Allied Health Career. The Nursing Service Department. The Hospital Environment. Communication Devices and Their Uses. Section II: Non-Clinical Management of the Nursing Unit. Communication and Interpersonal Skills for the Health Unit Coordinator. Medical/Legal Considerations. Management Techniques for Health Unit Coordinating. Section III: The Patient's Chart and Transcription of Doctor's Orders. The Patient's Chart. Transcription of Doctor's Orders and Recording Telephone Physician's Orders. Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, And Nursing Observations Orders. Nursing Treatment Orders. Dietary Orders. Medication Orders. Laboratory Orders. Diagnostic Imaging Orders. Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Endoscopy, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Function. Respiratory Care, Physical Medicine, Dialysis and Radiation Therapy. Miscellaneous Orders. Section IV: Health Unit Coordinator Procedures. Admission, Preoperative, And Postoperative Procedures. Discharge, Transfer, And Postmortem Procedures. Routine Health Unit Coordinator Tasks. Other Health Unit Coordinator Tasks. Section V: Introduction to Anatomic Structures, Medical Terms, And Illnesses. Medical Terminology, Basic Human Structure, Diseases and Disorders. Section VI: Specialty Services. Pediatrics. Psychiatrics. Section VII: Health Unit Coordinator Employment Related Situations and Additional Questions.

About the Author :
Myrna was a health science faculty member and division chair with the Maricopa County Community College for 27 years. During that time she taught medical terminology and developed the curriculum for seven other health occupation education programs. She is also the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780721672830
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 536 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0721672833
  • Publisher Date: /04/1998
  • Height: 279 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 216 mm


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