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
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 youll use in the field!
Paperback, 304 Pages
Published: February 2013
Imprint: Saunders
ISBN: 978-1-4557-0721-8
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 Electronic Record or Paper Chart, Transcription of Doctors Orders, and Documentation of Vital Signs
- 8. The Patients Electronic Medical Record or Paper Chart
- 10. Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, and Nursing Observation Orders
- 11. Nursing 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
- 20. Transcribing Discharge Orders
- 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
