Saunders Clinical Skills for Medical Assistants
Disk Eight: Assisting With Diagnostic Testing
By- . Saunders
This exciting series consists of 10 DVDs that present over 140 core medical assisting skills in an innovative, interactive video format. Each DVD is divided into individual sections and features at least 13 videos that follow a consistent format and focus on an essential medical assisting skill set. Actual medical assistants perform all the skills, as well as skill variations, demonstrating proper technique in the clinical setting. Interactive onscreen review questions reinforce key concepts and test understanding.
DVD,
Published: December 2006
Imprint: Saunders
ISBN: 978-1-4160-2431-6
Contents
- DVD EIGHT: ASSISTING WITH DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
11 skills/13 videos Approx. running time: 65 minutes
Section 1: Preparing to Work with Patients
8.1.1 Preparing to Work with Patients
Variation: Working with a Young Child
Section 2: Preparing Patients for Diagnostic Tests
8.2.1 Patient Instructions for X-Ray Tests
Procedure: Mammogram
Variaton: Barium Enema
Variation: Barium Swallow
Variation: CT Scan
8.2.2 Instructions for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Test
8.2.3 Instructions for a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy or Colonoscopy
Section 3: Diagnostic Testing
8.3.1 Patient Teaching: Collecting Fecal Specimens for Occult Blood Testing
8.3.2 Fecal Occult Blood Testing
8.3.3. Assising with a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
8.3.4 Disinfection of a Flexible Sigmoidoscope
8.3.5 Performing an Electrocardiogram
8.3.6 Applying a Holter Monitor
8.3.7 Spirometry Testing
