Comprehensive Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies | 6th Edition

The study guide includes key learning objectives for each chapter, outlines of important sections, self-test questions, and problem sets similar to those in the text and coordinating test bank.

Medical assistants play a critical role in our changing world of health care, and CLINICAL MEDICAL ASSISTING, Sixth Edition, prepares them to lead in this growing field. Known for its thorough coverage, extensive technical detail, and accurate, up-to-date content, this proven text book covers all the clinical and general tasks in a more comprehensive and detailed manner than other texts. Topics covered include the history and development of medical assisting, descriptions of the health care team, therapeutic communications, coping skills for the medical assistant, and important legal, ethical, and bioethical issues pertinent to the medical assistant. First aid is thoroughly covered. There is thorough coverage of taking patients' medical histories, recording vital signs, explaining procedures, and assisting care providers during exams pertinent to each body system. Special attention is given to age groups, infection prevention and control, assisting with surgery, and laboratory skills essential to outpatient care. This edition continues to include chapters that are most helpful when the medical assistant moves into a management position within a practice. Students will appreciate the updated chapters on employment strategies, entering the profession, and more fully understanding the management aspect of the medical clinic.

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MindTap Medical Assisting for Lindh/Tamparo/Dahl/Morris/Correa’s Comprehensive Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies, 6e is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. As an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.

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MEDICAL ASSISTING, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for CENGAGE’S MEDICAL ASSISTING: ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS is more essential than ever in today's rapidly evolving health care industry. Renewed focus on curriculum excellence, certification, and critical externships are all part of the performance criteria. Medical Assistants train in a variety of administrative tasks, including: Keyboarding and computer applications; Recordkeeping and accounting; Coding and insurance processing; Office practices; Patient relations; and Medical law and ethics. CENGAGE’S MEDICAL ASSISTING: ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS provides future medical assistants with narrated, step-by-step video training in all of these key administrative skills. Contact your Learning Consultant for custom pricing.