Master the clinical and administrative competencies you need to succeed as a Medical Assistant! Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals, 2nd Edition covers the administrative and clinical knowledge, skills, and procedures that are essential to patient care. A reader-friendly approach and focus on foundational content - including medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, basic math calculations, and soft skills - provide a solid foundation for the key skills and procedures at the heart of Medical Assisting practice. An applied learning approach organizes content around realistic case scenarios. The 2nd edition adds coverage of intravenous procedures, catheterization, and limited-scope radiography to address competencies approved in many states. This practical text will prepare you to launch a successful Medical Assisting career!

• Easy-to-understand writing style is appropriate for all levels of learners in all types of Medical Assisting programs.
• Emphasis on foundational content includes in-depth coverage of anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, basic math calculations, and job readiness to build a strong base of knowledge.
• Illustrated, step-by-step procedure boxes demonstrate how to perform and document key administrative and clinical skills.
• Content supports Medical Assisting certification test plans to help you prepare for board examinations.
• Real-world scenario in each chapter presents a situation for you to follow as you read through the material, helping you understand and apply key concepts as they are presented.
• Learning features include key terms and definitions, Being Professional boxes, study tips, critical thinking exercises, and review and summary sections, all focusing on developing the soft skills that employers seek when hiring.
• Chapter learning tools include terms with definitions, study tips, critical thinking boxes, and review and summary sections.
• Medical Terminology boxes highlight chapter-related medical terms to help you learn word parts, pronunciation, and definitions.
• Evolve website includes skills videos, chapter quizzes, five practice certification exams, and a portfolio builder.

• NEW chapters on intravenous procedures and limited-scope radiography provide coverage of expanded Medical Assisting functions approved in many states.
• NEW! Expanded content addresses behavioral health, catheterization procedures, disease states, medical office organization, expanding MA roles, and more.

Bringing together comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage of medical assisting competencies and a solid foundation of anatomy and physiology, Today's Medical Assistant: Clinical & Administrative Procedures, 4th Edition provides everything you need to successfully begin a career as a medical assistant. This hands-on guide uses easy-to-follow language and detailed visuals to walk you through all the medical knowledge, procedures, and skills you need for success in today's fast-paced medical office. Cutting-edge content is organized around medical assisting standards and competencies, supplemented throughout with a wide assortment of engaging learning tools and activities that help you to fully understand and demonstrate those competencies. The 4^th Edition features enhanced coverage of healthcare law, certification, electronic health records, motivational interviewing, office management, and more, as well as additional procedures to address behavior-based competencies and expanded sample certification exams online. For tomorrow's professional landscape, look no further than Today's Medical Assistant!

• Consistent and meticulous coverage throughout all elements of the text and its learning package provide reliable content and unparalleled accuracy on the responsibilities of the modern medical assistant.
• More than 120 detailed, step-by-step procedures with illustrations are accompanied by skills videos online.
• UNIQUE! Effective learning aids include procedure charting activities, What Would You Do?/What Would You Not Do? scenarios, patient education and practice applications, and much more.
• Wide range of engaging learning activities on the companion website provide fun, interactive practice.

• NEW! New content on healthcare trends and laws, certification for Medical Assistants, electronic health records, motivational interviewing, office management, and more ensures that you have the latest information needed to obtain employment and long-term success on the job.
• NEW! New procedures address the affective (behavior-based) MAERB competencies to provide example-driven learning tools.
• NEW! Updated art program focuses on the workings of a modern medical office and includes updated illustrations and photographs of office procedures and medical records.
• NEW! Expanded and updated sample certification exams provide realistic practice to help you prepare to pass the test and launch your Medical Assisting career.

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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 Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15^th Edition teaches the real-world administrative and clinical 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 a new unit on advanced clinical skills and expanded content on telemedicine, infection control related to COVID-19, IV therapy, radiology, rehabilitation, insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and much more. With its approachable writing style appropriate for all levels of learners and a full continuum of separately sold adaptive solutions, real-world simulations, 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 Medical Assisting profession!

• Comprehensive coverage of all administrative and clinical procedures complies with accreditation requirements.
• 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^(R) 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.

• NEW! Content aligns to 2022 Medical Assisting educational competencies.
• NEW! Advanced Clinical Skills unit features three new chapters on IV therapy, radiology basics, and radiology positioning to support expanded medical assisting functions.
• NEW! Coverage of telemedicine, enhanced infection control related to COVID-19, and catheterization.
• NEW! Procedures address IV therapy, limited-scope radiography, applying a sling, and coaching for stool collection.
• UPDATED! Coverage of administrative functions includes insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and more.
• UPDATED! Online practice exam for the Certified Medical Assistant matches 2021 test updates.
• EXPANDED! Information on physical medicine and rehabilitation.
• EXPANDED! Content on specimen collection, including wound swab, nasal, and nasopharyngeal specimen collections.

Medical assistants play a critical role in our changing world of health care, and COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL ASSISTING, Sixth Edition, prepares them to lead in this growing field. Known for accuracy, completeness of coverage, and exacting technical detail, this proven book addresses the administrative and clinical tasks required of medical assistants while preparing them for certification exams. Divided into three sections, chapters start with general topics, including therapeutic communications, coping skills, and professionalism. Administrative chapters look behind the scenes, exploring electronic medical records, ICD-10 coding, and practice management. COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL ASSISTING also maps clinical topics to ABHES, CAAHEP, and MAERB competencies, as well as CLIA-waived procedures, and delivers an exhaustive set of skills: taking patient medical histories, recording vital signs, explaining procedures, assisting during exams and surgery, infection control, and more.

Learn how to be part of the exciting physician assistant profession and how to choose the right PA program. Experience the diversity of the specialty practices available. Gain an understanding of the issues that face the profession as it grows in response to the needs of the nation created by an aging population and by health care reform. This guide answers the questions about whether you have what it takes to become an essential component of the physician-led health care team as a physician assistant. It is delivered in a casual, readable style by a practicing PA.

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Here's the must-have knowledge and guidance students need to gain a solid understanding of pharmacology and the safe administration of medications in one text. A body systems approach to pharmacology with a basic math review and a focus on drug classifications prepare them to administer specific drugs in the clinical setting.

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• Updated & Expanded! Coverage of procedures for ensuring safe administration
• Expanded & Revised! Layout and placement of tables, boxes, and figures to make important concepts easy to grasp
• Expanded! More dosage calculation problems to provide additional hands-on practice

• All objectives for each chapter reviewed and aligned with CAAHEP and ABHES competencies.
• Basic math review helps students learn to perform the calculations necessary to administer medications correctly.
• Medication administration presented through pharmacology basics, techniques and procedures, supplies, safety and regulations, and prescriptions and labels.
• Master the Essentials tables cover side effects, precautions, contraindications, and interactions for each classification.
• Drug classification review tables reinforce need-to-know information to each class.
• Fast Tip boxes offer quick facts and mnemonics.
• A Closer Look boxes examine important information in detail.
• Check-up Questions throughout each chapter promote understanding and help students retain and apply the information.
• Coverage of specific medications provides context for learning drug classifications.
• Critical-thinking exercises encourage students to think beyond the chapter and apply their new knowledge to real-life scenarios.
• Review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce learning.

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Meet the legal and ethical challenges you will face as a healthcare professional in ambulatory outpatient and clinical settings. The 8th Edition of this popular text guides you through legal concepts and the law, important ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics to prepare you to treat your patients with understanding, sensitivity, and compassion.

Often complex concepts are brought to life with vignettes, case studies and other real-world examples of how legal theories, the law, and ethics apply to day-to-day practice in today's rapidly evolving healthcare system. Clearly written and easy to read, it provides the strong ethical and legal foundation that today's healthcare professionals need to better serve their clients.

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For more than 20 years, Athletic Training Exam Review has empowered and enabled students to assess and evaluate their athletic training knowledge, skills, and decision-making abilities. Now, newly updated for its platinum anniversary, the Seventh Edition continues a tradition of excellence while serving as a premier guide to successfully achieving certification as an athletic trainer.

The Seventh Edition serves as a comprehensive self-evaluation tool, elevating readers' level of preparation for the BOC exam. This market-leading guide has made a positive impact on the athletic training profession by highlighting and improving students' strengths and weaknesses.

What's inside:

• Updated study techniques and test-taking strategies
• An expanded overview of the exam format to assist in organization and planning
• More than 1,300 multiple-choice questions and nearly 100 true/false questions, updated and organized according to the BOC's Practice Analysis, Seventh Edition Educational Domains
• Clinical decision-making questions testing the ability to make appropriate judgment calls using problem solving
• A skills assessment composed of 26 problems designed to test manual athletic training skills
• Scenario-based problems to strengthen critical-thinking abilities

In addition to the updated content, the Seventh Edition also features a fully redesigned and expanded online test-taking experience, including:

• New user-friendly, mobile format
• 8 knowledge assessment tests--3 more than the previous edition!
• 5 unique true/false exams
• 20 total drag and drop identification photographs--8 more than the previous edition!
• 43 critical-thinking scenarios
• 3 clinical decision-making exams containing scenario-based exam questions
• 13 video segments with related questions for practicing evaluation and assessment

Athletic Training Exam Review has assisted thousands of students and has become a hallmark text around the globe. Connecting the classroom with clinical education, this review tool is a timely and critical text that prepares students for their exam and career as an athletic trainer.