Skills Practice Manual for LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating
By- Elaine Gillingham, AAS, BA, CHUC, Program Director (Retired), Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ
- Monica Wadsworth Seibel, BS, MEd, CHUC, Program Director, Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ
- Elaine Gillingham, AAS, BA, CHUC, Program Director (Retired), Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ
- Monica Wadsworth Seibel, BS, MEd, CHUC, Program Director, Health Unit Coordinator Program, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, AZ
Master skills in a simulated hospital setting before working in actual hospital practice! The 96 exercises and activities in this practice manual correspond to LaFleur Brooks Health Unit Coordinating, 6th Edition and provide hands-on experience by specifying necessary skills, as well as the materials and steps you need to practice them. Plus, the companion CD-ROM packaged with this manual simulates a hospital computer system to help you hone skills youll use in the field!
Paperback, 288 Pages
Published: February 2008
Imprint: Saunders
ISBN: 978-1-4160-5208-1
Contents
- Section 1. Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care
4. Communication Devices and Their Uses
Section 2. Personal and Professional Skills
7. Management Techniques and Problem-Solving Skills for Health Unit Coordinating
Section 3. The Patients Chart or Electronic Record and Transcription and Monitoring of Doctors Orders
8. The Patients Chart or Electronic Medical Record
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 and Recording Telephoned Laboratory Results
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
21. Recording Vital Signs, Ordering Supplies, Daily Diagnostic Tests, and Filing
Appendices
A. Physicians Order Sheets
B. Generic Hospital Forms and Examples of Computer Screens that May Be Used as Ordering Requisitions When Computers Are Not Available
C. The Clinical Evaluation Record
