Enhance your patient care with a basic knowledge of pathology and disease! Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition is an invaluable handbook for healthcare providers in any healthcare setting. It profiles hundreds of diseases and disorders in a way that is easy to understand and easy to use, following the progression of a patient’s experience from signs and symptoms to screening, diagnosis, treatment options, and patient education. This edition adds new coverage of the opioid crisis, cancer treatment, and other emerging issues. From noted educators Margaret Schell Frazier and Tracie Fuqua, this reference prepares you for success in the classroom, on board exams, and as a medical assistant or health professional. More than 500 vibrant illustrations and detailed photos clarify difficult concepts and depict medical conditions. Critical thinking and real-life application is promoted through Challenge scenarios with questions, Critical Thinking questions (in the print book and on the Evolve website), and Enrichment boxes. Student workbook includes a wealth of exercises to reinforce your understanding of important concepts from the text. Available separately. ICD-10 codes with each disease are included for practice in locating the appropriate insurance codes. Clear, approachable writing style makes it easier to learn and understand the material. Alert boxes provide clinical tips, including safety precautions and best practices. Concise, consistent monograph-style presentation describes hundreds of medical diseases and conditions. NEW content keeps you current with the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. NEW clinical photos and updated illustrations show concepts, processes, and medical conditions. UPDATED case studies provide additional opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. NEW chapter quiz questions prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.
This workbook includes a balanced mixture of recall, application, and critical-thinking exercises for each chapter to ensure students are thoroughly prepared for tests and for clinical practice.
Get a firm grasp of disease and disease process as it relates to your job with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 6th Edition. Perfectly tailored to the needs to today's medical assistants, this unique text uses simple language and an abundance of learning features as it walks readers through the disease pathology of over 500 common patient conditions. This new sixth edition includes new diseases and conditions, new illustrations, ICD-10-CM codes for every condition, and new critical thinking questions to keep readers up-to-date on the latest pathology topics while helping them apply concepts from the text to clinical practice. Tenth grade reading level utilizes very approachable language to make the text content easy to digest. Enrichment boxes relate disease information to everyday practice. ICD-10-CM codes for each disease give readers ample practice looking up codes in ICD-10-CM. Current information on the most commonly encountered clinical disorders is presented in small segments for easier understanding. Full-color illustrations clarify difficult concepts. Consistent format for all diseases entries walks readers through each step of patient care and treatment, including: Description Symptoms and Signs Patient Screening Etiology Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Prevention Patient Teaching Pharmacology appendix details drug names, therapeutic objectives, side effects, and general comments for commonly prescribed drugs. Alerts highlight safety precautions for physician-based practice. Review Challenges reinforce content and reveal areas requiring additional study. Real-life Challenges test readers' ability to apply chapter content to real-world cases. NEW! Additional diseases and conditions have been added throughout the text to keep readers up to date on the types of diseases and conditions they will encounter on the job. NEW! Critical thinking questions provide additional opportunities for readers to critically apply the concepts covered in the text.
Enhance your patient care with a basic knowledge of pathology and disease! Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition is an invaluable handbook for healthcare providers in any healthcare setting. It profiles hundreds of diseases and disorders in a way that is easy to understand and easy to use, following the progression of a patient’s experience from signs and symptoms to screening, diagnosis, treatment options, and patient education. This edition adds new coverage of the opioid crisis, cancer treatment, and other emerging issues. From noted educators Margaret Schell Frazier and Tracie Fuqua, this reference prepares you for success in the classroom, on board exams, and as a medical assistant or health professional. More than 500 vibrant illustrations and detailed photos clarify difficult concepts and depict medical conditions. Critical thinking and real-life application is promoted through Challenge scenarios with questions, Critical Thinking questions (in the print book and on the Evolve website), and Enrichment boxes. Student workbook includes a wealth of exercises to reinforce your understanding of important concepts from the text. Available separately. ICD-10 codes with each disease are included for practice in locating the appropriate insurance codes. Clear, approachable writing style makes it easier to learn and understand the material. Alert boxes provide clinical tips, including safety precautions and best practices. Concise, consistent monograph-style presentation describes hundreds of medical diseases and conditions. NEW content keeps you current with the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. NEW clinical photos and updated illustrations show concepts, processes, and medical conditions. UPDATED case studies provide additional opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. NEW chapter quiz questions prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.
Get a firm grasp of disease and disease process as it relates to your job with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 6th Edition. Perfectly tailored to the needs to today’s medical assistants, this unique text uses simple language and an abundance of learning features as it walks readers through the disease pathology of over 500 common patient conditions. This new sixth edition includes new diseases and conditions, new illustrations, ICD-10-CM codes for every condition, and new critical thinking questions to keep readers up-to-date on the latest pathology topics while helping them apply concepts from the text to clinical practice. Tenth grade reading level utilizes very approachable language to make the text content easy to digest. Enrichment boxes relate disease information to everyday practice. ICD-10-CM codes for each disease give readers ample practice looking up codes in ICD-10-CM. Current information on the most commonly encountered clinical disorders is presented in small segments for easier understanding. Full-color illustrations clarify difficult concepts. Consistent format for all diseases entries walks readers through each step of patient care and treatment, including: Description Symptoms and Signs Patient Screening Etiology Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Prevention Patient Teaching Pharmacology appendix details drug names, therapeutic objectives, side effects, and general comments for commonly prescribed drugs. Alerts highlight safety precautions for physician-based practice. Review Challenges reinforce content and reveal areas requiring additional study. Real-life Challenges test readers' ability to apply chapter content to real-world cases. NEW! Additional diseases and conditions have been added throughout the text to keep readers up to date on the types of diseases and conditions they will encounter on the job. NEW! Critical thinking questions provide additional opportunities for readers to critically apply the concepts covered in the text.
Reinforce your understanding of the pathology concepts described in Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in the textbook, this workbook provides hands-on review and practice with anatomy labeling activities, vocabulary exercises, scenarios for patient screening and teaching, and more. This complete review will prepare you for success on classroom and certification exams, and help you apply your knowledge to the clinical setting. Correlation with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition matches workbook chapters to the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank questions test your comprehension and foster critical thinking. Exercises with word definitions and glossary terms provide a review of medical terminology and build your vocabulary. Case scenarios focus on patient screening and patient education to demonstrate real-life application. Labeling exercises reinforce your knowledge of anatomical structures and disease processes. Clear, approachable style of review makes it easier to study, comprehend, and master pathology essentials NEW review content includes the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. REVISED scenarios provide more opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. EXPANDED certification review includes more multiple-choice questions and testing practice to prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.
Designed for existing courses within the MA curricula, this text provides initial preparation for the principles and techniques of intravenous therapy. Students will learn the basic knowledge necessary to safely and precisely administer basic IV fluids and medications within the scope of practice for their particular health care profession. Each chapter is organized with chapter outlines, learning objectives, key words with definitions, and chapter summaries. Includes a basic review of anatomy and physiology to provide a fundamental understanding of how IV therapy can interact with each body system. A variety of exercises (such as IV calculations or patient teaching) are integrated within each chapter to reinforce the learning of often-difficult concepts. Includes an array of worksheets on the companion Evolve website (such as drugs, charting, or drug and dosage calculations) to provide practice tools for the student. Each chapter concludes with multiple-choice review questions to test students' knowledge of the content within that chapter. Provides a Competency Check Sheet with standards for performance and to meet competency-based education requirements.
Reinforce your understanding of the pathology concepts described in Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in the textbook, this workbook provides hands-on review and practice with anatomy labeling activities, vocabulary exercises, scenarios for patient screening and teaching, and more. This complete review will prepare you for success on classroom and certification exams, and help you apply your knowledge to the clinical setting. Correlation with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition matches workbook chapters to the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank questions test your comprehension and foster critical thinking. Exercises with word definitions and glossary terms provide a review of medical terminology and build your vocabulary. Case scenarios focus on patient screening and patient education to demonstrate real-life application. Labeling exercises reinforce your knowledge of anatomical structures and disease processes. Clear, approachable style of review makes it easier to study, comprehend, and master pathology essentials NEW review content includes the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. REVISED scenarios provide more opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. EXPANDED certification review includes more multiple-choice questions and testing practice to prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.
Learn to master important disease pathology with this helpful workbook. Filled with labeling activities, critical thinking questions, patient screening scenarios, certification exam review exercises, and much more, this dynamic workbook challenges users to recall key terminology, identify important anatomic structures, apply concepts to realistic patient scenarios, and prepare for success on certification exams. Word definitions and glossary terms provide a review of medical terminology and reinforce key concepts from the main text. Fill-in-the-blank and short answer exercises help users retain information and foster critical thinking. Labeling exercises include illustrations of anatomical structures and processes giving users the ability to practice their knowledge of disease processes. Patient screening scenarios offer practice in recognizing the varying degrees of urgency in patient situations. Certification exam review provide extra testing practice in a format similar to actual certification exams.
Meeting the highest standards outlined by ABHES and CAAHEP, this is the definitive clinical medical assisting book today! A unique body systems approach sets the stage for this modern and up to date clinical medical assisting book. material. Section I discusses the primary concepts and dynamics of medical assisting. The second section advances the student into the medical office, the physician office lab (POL), asepsis, and minor surgery. Pharmacology and medication administration are also addressed. The book moves on to the third section, diagnostic testing in the medical office. The fourth section covers medical specialties and testing, and the fifth deals with medical specialties. The sixth and final section covers nontraditional medicine.
This workbook includes a balanced mixture of recall, application, and critical-thinking exercises for each chapter to ensure students are thoroughly prepared for tests and for clinical practice.
This is a Pageburst digital textbook; Offering quick access to the pathological conditions most commonly seen in the physician's office, this portable text/reference is ideal for administrative and clinical medical assistants who have responsibilities such as billing, coding, telephone screening, taking patient examinations, understanding diagnostic and treatment procedures, and putting together patient education programs. Reflecting the latest changes in the field, this fourth edition describes over 500 conditions and disorders, and includes ICD-9-CM codes for each disease entry. A companion workbook enhances understanding with exercises, patient screening, patient teaching critical thinking questions and certification exam review questions. A companion web site offers A&P web links. Enrichment boxes show how information relating to a disease or system applies to everyday life. ICD-9-CM codes are included for each disease entry, offering practice in looking up codes in an ICD-9-CM reference. Current medical information on the most commonly encountered clinical disorders is condensed and simplified for easier application. Full-color illustrations reinforce the text and clarify key information. A consistent format for disease entries follows the real-life progression of a patient's care and treatment, with this format:. Description Symptoms and Signs Patient Screening (Unique!) Etiology Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Prevention Patient Teaching. Appendix on pharmacology includes a chart format in which commonly prescribed drugs are listed by group and includes the drug name, intended therapeutic objective, side effects, and general comments. Alerts provide safety precautions and advice for dealing with the common diseases presented in a physician's office. Review challenges reinforce content and help students see where they may need additional study. Real-life challenges provide actual cases with questions, relating chapter content to a real-world case. Orderly Function A&P reviews of specific body systems now include clearer descriptions and more illustrations, helping students compare systems in normal and disease states. Coverage of Avian Flu describes how diseases emerge from the animal to the human world, and prepares medical assistants for the potential dangers of this disease. Key Terms include pronunciations and are broken down into prefixes, roots and suffixes.
Reinforce your understanding of the pathology concepts described in Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in the textbook, this workbook provides hands-on review and practice with anatomy labeling activities, vocabulary exercises, scenarios for patient screening and teaching, and more. This complete review will prepare you for success on classroom and certification exams, and help you apply your knowledge to the clinical setting. Correlation with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 7th Edition matches workbook chapters to the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Short-answer and fill-in-the-blank questions test your comprehension and foster critical thinking. Exercises with word definitions and glossary terms provide a review of medical terminology and build your vocabulary. Case scenarios focus on patient screening and patient education to demonstrate real-life application. Labeling exercises reinforce your knowledge of anatomical structures and disease processes. Clear, approachable style of review makes it easier to study, comprehend, and master pathology essentials NEW review content includes the latest in cancer treatment, mental health, grief, suicide, HPV, contraception, aging, memory care, the opioid crisis, and more. REVISED scenarios provide more opportunities to apply concepts to the clinical setting. EXPANDED focus on A&P and medical terminology makes learning easier for beginning students. EXPANDED certification review includes more multiple-choice questions and testing practice to prepare you for success on classroom and credentialing exams.
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