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Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant. An Applied Learning Approach. Edition No. 15

  • Book

  • February 2023
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5646649
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles? 2024 in Medical Assisting** More than any other product on the market, the most successful medical assistants begin their careers with Kinn. Known for more than 65 years for its alignment with national curriculum standards, Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition teaches the real-world administrative skills essential for a career in the modern medical office - always with a focus on helping you apply what you’ve learned. This edition features new and expanded content on insurance, coding, privacy and security, telehealth logistics, and much more. With its approachable writing style appropriate for all levels of learners and a full continuum of separately sold adaptive solutions, EHR documentation experience, and HESI remediation and assessment, quickly master the leading skills to prepare for certification and a successful career in the dynamic and growing administrative medical assisting profession!

- Step-by-step, illustrated procedures include rationales and a focus on professionalism.- Electronic health record (EHR) coverage provides access to hands-on activities using SimChart? for the Medical Office (sold separately).- Applied learning approach incorporates threaded case scenarios and critical thinking applications.- Patient education and legal and ethical features at the end of each chapter reinforce legal and communications implications within medical assisting practice.- Key vocabulary terms and definitions are presented at the beginning of each chapter, highlighted in text discussions, and summarized in a glossary for quick reference.- Robust Evolve companion website offers procedure videos, practice quizzes, mock certification exams, and interactive learning exercises. - 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. - NEW! Artwork familiarizes you with the modern medical office and equipment.

Table of Contents

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

Authors

Brigitte Niedzwiecki Medical Assistant Program Director & Instructor, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 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 Medical Assisting Program Instructor, Health Navigator Program Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 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