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Skills Practice Manual for LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating

  • 7th Edition - February 7, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Elaine A. Gillingham, Monica Wadsworth Seibel
  • Language: English

Master skills in a simulated hospital electronic medical record before working in actual hospital practice! Nearly 100 exercises and activities in this practice manual co… Read more

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Master skills in a simulated hospital electronic medical record before working in actual hospital practice! Nearly 100 exercises and activities in this practice manual correspond to LaFleur Brooks’ Health Unit Coordinating, 7th Edition and provide hands-on experience by specifying necessary skills, as well as the materials and steps you need to practice them. Plus, the online electronic health record that comes with this manual gives you realistic practice working on hospital computer system to help you hone skills you’ll use in the field!

Key features

  • Standard organization for each activity provides a record of the tasks to be completed, such as: materials needed, situation, directions, and check lists.
  • Relevant practice orders include additional scenarios to give you more practice with relevant skills.
  • Printable physicians orders allow simulation for both the EHR and paper environment.
  • Ordering requisitions appendix can be used for activities requiring the online EHR when a computer is not available.
  • Handwritten doctors’ orders give you practice deciphering poor handwriting samples
  • Clinical Evaluation Record provides a written record of your performance in the clinical setting.

Table of contents

Section 1: Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care

1. Health Unit Coordinating

2. Overview of Health Care Today

3. The Nursing Department and Medical Staff

4. Communication Devices and Their Uses
Section 2: Personal and Professional Skills

5. Communication and Interpersonal Skills

6. Workplace Behavior

7. Management Techniques and Problem-Solving Skills for Health Unit Coordinating
Section 3: The Patient’s Electronic Record or Paper Chart

8. The Patient’s Electronic Medical Record or Chart

9. HUC Role in Processing of Electronic, Pre-Printed, and Handwritten Doctors’ Orders

10. Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, and Nursing Observation Orders

11. Nursing Intervention or Treatment Orders

12. Nutritional Care Orders

13. Medication Orders

14. Laboratory Orders

15. Diagnostic Imaging Orders

16. Other Diagnostic Studies

17. Treatment Orders

18. Miscellaneous Orders
Section 4: Health Unit Coordinator Procedures

19. Admission, Preoperative, and Postoperative Procedures

20. Discharge, Transfer, and Postmortem Procedures

21. Reports, Infection Control, Emergencies, and Special Services
Section 5: Introduction to Anatomical Structures, Medical Terms, and Illnesses

22. Medical Terminology, Basic Human Structure, Diseases, and Disorders
Appendix A: Physicians’ Order Sheets
Appendix B: Generic Hospital Forms and Examples of Computer Screens that May Be Used as Ordering Requisitions When Computers are Not Available
Appendix C: The Clinical Evaluation Record

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 7, 2013
  • Language: English

About the authors

EG

Elaine A. Gillingham

Affiliations and expertise
Program Director (Retired), Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ

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Monica Wadsworth Seibel

Affiliations and expertise
Program Director, Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ