About The Book
For students enrolled in Unit coordinating programs.
Logically ordered, moving from simple to complex, this text provides the basic, current information necessary to successfully perform the clerical, communication, and coordination duties of a Health unit coordinator (unit secretary, ward clerk, etc.) in today's demanding health care environment.
Contents
1. Introduction to Being a Health Unit Coordinator.
2. The Working Environment.
3. The Hospital Departments.
4. Medical Terminology.
5. Introduction to Body Structure and Function.
6. Diseases and Diagnoses.
7. Medical Law and Ethics.
8. Communications.
9. Hospital Safety and Emergencies.
10. Introduction to Management at the Nurses Station.
11. The Patient's Chart.
12. The Health Unit Coordinator and Computers.
13. Introduction to Order Transcription.
14. Understanding Medication Orders.
15. Nursing Procedure Orders.
16. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Department Orders.
17. Health Unit Coordinator Procedures.
18. Review.
19. Order Transcription Practice.
Bibliography.
Index.
Health Unit Coordinating (Health Unit Coordinator)
Author Bios | Backcover Copy
This Edition of Being a Health Unit Coordinator is once again prepared by Kay Cox-Stevens, R.N., M.A. She is a Professor of Health Sciences at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, and owns a Consulting business, Achiever's Development Enterprises. She is a former instructor of health unit coordinators. She is a founding member of NAHUC (The National Association of Health Unit Coordinators) and a former regional representative and Director of Education of that organization. She is the series Editor for the Medical Clerical Series and for the Clinical Allied Health textbook series for Career Publishing.
Being A Health Unit Coordinator, 5e
Kay Cox-Stevens
Retaining an emphasis on the patient-centered approach, Kay Cox-Stevens' Being A Health Unit Coordinator continues to provide the information health unit coordinators must comprehend. This up-to-date text is appropriate for students enrolled in unit coordinating programs or as a reference for those that are practicing. It moves from the simple to the complex, laying a Foundation of skills necessary for all medical-clerical workers, then follows with more specific health unit coordinating procedures. New medication information, Review questions, learning activities, and updated chapter information, make the new Fifth Edition an even more current and complete reference for success.
Features
The newest information on diagnostic and therapeutic orders.
More information on the impact of managed care on the heath care facility.
New information on medical records management.
An update on medical Laws and ethics.
An update on new medications.
Learning activities with critical thinking questions.
Other Titles of Interest
Marshall, Being a Medical Clerical Worker, 2/e 0-8359-5147-2
McMiller, Being a Medical Records Clerk, 2/e 0-13-086493-5
Struck, Medical Office Pharmacology 0-8359-5290-8
Dodson, Being a Medical Information Coder, 2/e 0-8359-5333-5
Makely, The Health Care Workers Primer on Professionalism 0-8359-5483-8
Instructor Resources
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Instructor's Guide, 5/E
Cox-Stevens
©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130916285 | ISBN-13: 9780130916280
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Features
NEW - Considerable revision and reorganization of several chapters—Chapter 3, The Hospital Departments, Chapter 5, Introduction to Body Structure and Function, Chapter 14, Understanding Medication Orders, and Chapter 16, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Orders.
Facilitates learning topics of the most current concern.
NEW - Computer assignments using the Internet have been added.
Encourages students to become proficient with use of the Internet.
NEW - New information on hepatitis and AIDS has been added.
Provides students with the latest information on these illnesses.
NEW - Vocabulary lists at the beginning of each chapter have been added.
Helps students focus on key words.
NEW - Thoroughly updated content.
Provides students with the most current information available.
NEW - Updated, more attractive design.
Offers a more visually appealing design with new photos and graphics.
NEW - New critical thinking activities at the end of most chapters.
Provides students with opportunities for processing real-life situations in the classroom.
Extensive clinical training plan included.
Helps students to “map out” their training.
Numerous physician's orders for order transcription practice.
Enables students to gain practice reading real doctor's orders and transcribing them.
Most chapters contain:
Objectives; lists of vocabulary words, medical terminology, and abbreviations; learning activities, critical thinking questions, and internet exercises at the end of chapters; and review questions and activities at the end of the chapters.