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SKILLS PRACTICE MANUAL FOR LAFLEUR BROOKS' HEALTH UNIT COORDINATING
Skills Practice Manual for LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating
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Sixth Edition

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

Description
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 you'll use in the field!

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 Patient's Chart or Electronic Record and Transcription and Monitoring of Doctors' Orders


8. The Patient's 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

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: FEB-2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-5208-1
ISBN-10: 1-4160-5208-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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