Study Guide for Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant
An Applied Learning Approach
- 14th Edition - June 24, 2022
- Authors: Brigitte Niedzwiecki, Julie Pepper, P. Ann Weaver
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 1 3 6 9 - 9
Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 14th Edition, this study guide and procedure checklist manual is the essential review and pr… Read more
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Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 14th Edition, this study guide and procedure checklist manual is the essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and ensure you master and apply administrative medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of exercises to reinforce your understanding of common administrative skills — including new certification preparation questions that offer additional practice for certification exams, a review of medical terminology and anatomy, and need-to-know workplace applications. Trusted for more than 60 years as a key part of the student journey from classroom to career, it also features competency checklists to clearly assess your performance and progression from day one until you land your first job as a Medical Assistant.
- Comprehensive coverage of all administrative procedures gives you an overview of everything you need to know to work in a medical office job.
- Hundreds of practice questions test your knowledge and critical thinking skills with vocabulary review, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions.
- Skills practice, workplace applications, and online activities promote your critical thinking skills.
- Procedure checklists help you track your performance toward mastery of key skills and job-readiness.
- Work products allow you to provide documentation to instructors or file in professional portfolios to use in job-searching.
- Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allow you to test your comprehension as you go.
- Perforated pages are easily removed for on-the-go study or turn-in assignments and evaluations.
PART 1 – Introduction to Medical Assisting
1. The Professional Medical Assistant and the Healthcare Team
2. Therapeutic Communication
3. Legal Principles
4. Healthcare Laws
5. Healthcare Ethics
6. Introduction to Anatomy and Medical Terminology
7. Patient Coaching
PART 2 – Fundamentals of Ambulatory Care Administration
8. Technology
9. Written Communication
10. Telephone Techniques
11. Scheduling Appointments and Patient Processing
12. Health Records
13. Daily Operations and Safety
14. Principles of Pharmacology
PART 3 – Coding and Medical Billing
15. Health Insurance Essentials
16. Diagnostic Coding Essentials
17. Procedural Coding Essentials
18. Medical Billing and Reimbursement Essentials
PART 4 – Advanced Ambulatory Care Administration
19. Patient Accounts and Practice Management
20. Advanced Roles in Administration
PART 5 – Assisting with Medical Specialties
21. Medical Emergencies
PART 6 – Job Seeking
22. Skills and Strategies
- Edition: 14
- Published: June 24, 2022
- Language: English
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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, USAJP
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, USAPW
P. Ann Weaver
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Assistant Instructor, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin