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Kinn's The Medical Assistant

An Applied Learning Approach

  • 13th Edition - May 4, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Deborah B. Proctor, Brigitte Niedzwiecki, Julie Pepper, Payel Madero, Martha (Marti) Garrels, Helen Mills
  • Language: English

Comprehensive Medical Assisting begins with Kinn! Elsevier’s 60th Anniversary edition of Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, 13th Edition provides you with real-world administrative… Read more

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Comprehensive Medical Assisting begins with Kinn! Elsevier’s 60th Anniversary edition of Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, 13th Edition provides you with real-world administrative and clinical skills that are essential to working in the modern medical office. An applied learning approach to the MA curriculum is threaded throughout each chapter to help you further develop the tactile and critical thinking skills necessary for working in today’s healthcare setting. Paired with our adaptive solutions, real –world simulations, EHR documentation and HESI remediation and assessment, you will learn the leading skills of modern administrative and clinical medical assisting in the classroom!

Key features

  • Basics of Diagnostic Coding
    • prepares you to use the ICD-10 coding system.
  • Learning objectives listed in the same order as content makes it easy to review material.
  • Clinical procedures integrated into the TOC give you a quick reference point.
  • Professional behavior boxes provide guidelines on how to interact with patients, families, and coworkers.
  • Patient education and legal and ethical issues are described in relation to the Medical Assistant's job.
  • Applied approach to learning helps you use what you’ve learned in the clinical setting.
  • Learning objectives and vocabulary with definitions highlight what’s important in each chapter.
  • Critical thinking applications test your understanding of the content.
  • Step-by-step procedures explain complex conditions and abstract concepts.
  • Rationales for each procedure clarify the need for each step and explains why it’s being performed.
  • Portfolio builder helps you demonstrate your mastery of the material to potential employers.

Table of contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Medical Assisting

1.The Medical Assistant and Competency-Based Education – NEW!

2.The Medical Assistant and the Healthcare Team

3.Professional Behavior in the Workplace

4.Therapeutic Communications

5. Medicine and Law

6. Medicine and Ethics

Unit 2: Ambulatory Care Administration

7. Technology and Written Communication in the Medical Office – NEW!

8. Telephone Techniques

9. Scheduling Appointments and Patient Processing

10. Daily Operations in the Ambulatory Care Setting

11. The Health Record – NEW!

Unit 3: Coding and Medical Billing Procedures

12. Basics of Diagnostic Coding

13. Basics of Procedural Coding

14. Basics of Health Insurance

15. Medical Billing and Reimbursement

Unit 4: Medical Office Administrative Functions

16. Patient Accounts, Collections and Practice Management

17. Banking Services and Procedures

18. Supervision and Human Resources Management

19. Medical Practice Marketing and Customer Service

Unit 5: Fundamentals of Clinical Medical Assisting

20. Infection Control

21. Patient Assessment

22. Patient Education

23. Nutrition and Health Promotion

24. Vital Signs

25. Assisting with the Primary Physical Examination

Unit 6: Assisting with Medications

26. Principles of Pharmacology

27. Pharmacy Math

28. Administering Medications

Unit 7: Assisting with Medical Specialties

29. All-Hazard Preparedness and Assisting with Medical Emergencies

30. Assisting with Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology

31. Assisting in Dermatology

32. Assisting in Gastroenterology

33. Assisting in Urology and Male Reproduction

34. Assisting in Obstetrics and Gynecology

35. Assisting in Pediatrics

36. Assisting in Orthopedic Medicine

37. Assisting in Neurology and Mental Health

38. Assisting in Endocrinology

39. Assisting in Pulmonary Medicine

40. Assisting in Cardiology

41. Assisting in Geriatrics

Unit 8: Diagnostic Procedures

42. Principles of Electrocardiography

43. Assisting with Diagnostic Imaging

44. Assisting in the Clinical Laboratory

45. Assisting in the Analysis of Urine

46. Assisting in Blood Collection

47. Assisting in the Analysis of Blood

48. Assisting in Microbiology and Immunology

Unit 9: Assisting with Surgeries

49. Surgical Supplies and Instruments

50. Surgical Asepsis and Assisting with Surgical Procedures

Unit 10: Career Development

51. Career Development and Life Skills

Product details

  • Edition: 13
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 19, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Deborah B. Proctor

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director, Medical Assisting Program, Butler County Community College, Butler, PA

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Brigitte Niedzwiecki

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Assistant Program Director & Instructor, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

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Julie Pepper

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. 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 taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Medical Assistant Program, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

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Payel Madero

Affiliations and expertise
AHIMA Approved ICD-10 Trainer COO, PPJ Enterprises Upland, California

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Martha (Marti) Garrels

Martha (Marti) Garrels is a former Professor and Program Director of the Medical Assisting program at Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend, Indiana, and Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland, Washington. She has been an active member of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) for more than 25 years.
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Assisting Program Consultant, Retired Medical Assisting Program Director, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Kirkland, Washington

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Helen Mills

Affiliations and expertise
Helen Mills, RN, MSN, RMA, LXMO, AHI Medical Assisting Program Coordinator and Advisor Keiser University Port St. Lucie, Florida