Skills Practice Manual to Accompany Health Unit Coordinating

by LaFleur Brooks & Gillingham

• ISBN13: 9780721601014
• ISBN10: 0721601014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-19
• Publisher: Saunders

Summary

Contains hands-on practice with activities that reinforce material taught in the text chapters. Appendix contains tear-out generic hospital forms, actual written physicians' orders, and Evaluation forms. Skills Practice Software with Transcription of Physicians' Orders CD-ROM for Windows 95 is packaged with the manual, containing audio activities for communication practice, drug cards for referencing, printable hospital forms, HIPAA activities, printable version of physicians' orders, and transcription of physicians' orders

Table of Contents

SECTION 1 Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care	1	(8)
Communication Devices and Their Uses	3	(6)
SECTION 2 Personal and Professional Skills	9	(4)
Management Techniques and Problem-Solving Skills for Health Unit Coordinating	11	(2)
SECTION 3 The Patient's Chart and Transcription of Doctors' Orders	13	(162)
The Patient's Chart	15	(8)
Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, and Nursing Observation Orders	23	(12)
Nursing Treatment Orders	35	(14)
Dietary Orders	49	(12)
Medication Orders	61	(26)
Laboratory Orders and Recording Telephoned Laboratory Results	87	(32)
Diagnostic Imaging Orders	119	(20)
Other Diagnostic Studies	139	(14)
Treatment Orders	153	(12)
Miscellaneous Orders	165	(10)
SECTION 4 Health Unit Coordinator Procedures	175	(22)
Admission, Preoperative, and Postoperative Procedures	177	(12)
Recording Vital Signs, Ordering Supplies, Daily Diagnostic Tests, and Filing	189	(8)
Appendix A Physicians' Order Sheets	197	(38)
Appendix B Generic Hospital Forms and Examples of Computer Screens That May Be Used as Ordering Requisitions When Computers Are Not Available	235	(40)
Appendix C The Clinical Evaluation Record	275