Study Guide and Procedure Checklist Manual for Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach

by Brigitte Niedzwiecki RN, MSN, RMA, Julie Pepper BS, CMA (AAMA)

Overview

Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 15^th Edition, this study guide is an essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and help you apply medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of activities to strengthen your understanding of common administrative skills — including certification preparation questions, a review of medical terminology and anatomy, and application exercises. Trusted for more than 65 years as a key part of the journey from classroom to career, it also features competency checklists to accurately measure your progress and performance from day one until you land your first job as a medical assistant.

• Approximately 70 step-by-step procedure checklists enable you to assess and track your performance for every procedure included in the textbook.
• Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allows you to easily follow core textbook competencies.
• Matching and acronym activities reinforce your understanding of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and chapter vocabulary.
• Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank exercises strengthen your comprehension of key concepts.
• Multiple-choice questions help you prepare for classroom and board exams.
• Workplace application exercises promote critical thinking and job readiness before you enter practice.
• Internet exercises offer ideas for expanded and project-based learning.

• NEW! Content aligns to 2022 medical assisting educational competencies.
• NEW and UPDATED! Comprehensive coverage of all administrative functions complies with accreditation requirements and includes insurance, coding, privacy and security, telehealth logistics, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323874137
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	11/17/2022
Edition description:	15th ed.
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	224,272
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brigitte Niedzwiecki began her healthcare career as a nurse, working in the hospital with surgical and pediatric patients and also in urgent care. After obtaining her master’s degree in nursing, Brigitte worked in patient and staff education, as a software trainer, and as a nurse educator before transitioning into education. She has been the Medical Assisting program director at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, during which time she has participated in reviewing and writing and has helped develop state and national Medical Assisting curricula. She is also lead author of Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, a related MA core text designed primarily for programs that do not offer a separate A&P course and are focused on certification.

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care, first as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she has taught for the past 18 years. Julie is also the program director for the college’s new Health Navigator program. She has served as reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including SimChart for the Medical Office; she currently serves as sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office and co-author of Health Insurance Today, 7e. She is taking over sole authorship of what will be titled Beik’s Health Insurance Today, 8e

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Professional Medical Assistant and the Healthcare Team
Chapter 2 Therapeutic Communication
Chapter 3 Legal Principles
Chapter 4 Healthcare Laws
Chapter 5 Healthcare Ethics
Chapter 6 Introduction to Medical Terminology and Anatomy
Chapter 7 Patient Coaching
Chapter 8 Technology
Chapter 9 Written Communication
Chapter 10 Telephone Techniques
Chapter 11 Scheduling Appointments and Patient Processing
Chapter 12 Health Records
Chapter 13 Daily Operations and Safety
Chapter 14 Principles of Pharmacology
Chapter 15 Health Insurance Essentials
Chapter 16 Diagnostic Coding Essentials
Chapter 17 Procedural Coding Essentials
Chapter 18 Medical Billing and Reimbursement Essentials
Chapter 19 Patient Accounts and Practice Management
Chapter 20 Advanced Roles in Administration
Chapter 21 Medical Emergencies
Chapter 22 Skills and Strategies

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