Study Guide for Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals: Administrative and Clinical Competencies with Anatomy & Physiology - Softcover

Niedzwiecki RN MSN RMA, Brigitte; Pepper BS CMA (AAMA), Julie; Weaver MSEd MT(ASCP), P. Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323597521 ISBN 13: 9780323597524

Publisher: Elsevier, 2018

Synopsis

Gain thorough and engaging practice with essential medical assisting job skills! Designed to accompany Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals: Administrative and Clinical Competencies with Anatomy & Physiology, this study guide offers a wide range of exercises to reinforce your understanding of administrative and clinical competencies, as well as foundational content such as anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and math calculations. With a combination of review questions, application activities, and competency checklists, it's the essential practice and review you need to succeed in clinical practice!

• Procedure Checklists and Work Products provide documentation to confirm mastery of competencies for accrediting organizations and portfolio building.
• Vocabulary review, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions test your content knowledge and understanding of critical concepts.
• Skills & Concepts, Word Puzzles, Case Studies, Workplace Applications, and Internet Activities offer application and critical thinking exercises to enhance your learning experience.
• Chapter review quizzes assess your comprehension and serve as an excellent review for classroom and certification exams.

About this title

About the Authors

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 as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. 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 taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college's Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn's The Medical Assistant, and Today's Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323597521
• ISBN 13: 9780323597524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1136