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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
With all of the practical knowledge, skills, and applications you need in today's health unit environment, this completely updated 6th
edition of LAFLEUR BROOKS' HEALTH UNIT COORDINATING gives you everything you need to succeed. It reflects the latest advances in the
field, including the electronic medical record, as well as new photos and illustrations that bring concepts to life. Plus, you'll understand
everything from communications skills to procedures through activities such as Abbreviation Exercises, Review Questions, Scenarios, and
more.
Contents
Section 1. Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care
1. Health Unit Coordinating: An Allied Health
Career
2. Overview of Health Care Today
3. The Nursing Department
4. Communication Devices and Their Uses
Section
2. Personal and Professional Skills
5. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
6. Workplace Behavior: Ethics and
Legal Concepts
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
9. Transcription of Doctors' Handwritten Orders
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
20. Discharge, Transfer, and Postmortem Procedures
21. Recording Vital Signs,
Ordering Supplies, Daily Diagnostic Tests, and Filing
22. Reports, Infection Control, Emergencies, and Special Services
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5. Introduction to Anatomic Structures, Medical Terms, and Illnesses
23. Medical Terminology, Basic Human Structure,
and Disorders
Appendices
A. Abbreviations
B. Word Parts
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
Index
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Paperback, 656 pages, publication date: FEB-2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-4172-6
ISBN-10: 1-4160-4172-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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