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Delmar's Medical Assisting Exam Review: Preparation for the CMA, RMA, and CMAS Exams (Medical Assisting Exam Review: Preparation for the CMA, Rma, & Cmas)

Delmar's Medical Assisting Exam Review, Second Edition is written in outline format to prepare the learner for the Certified Medical Assisting (CMA) exam, Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) exam, and Certified Medical Administrative Specialist (CMAS) exam. The book contains five sections to offer flexibility for the learner, and includes test information and preparation sections, review content on general, administrative, and clinical topics, and pre- and post-test exams. The new edition conforms to the latest AAMA role delineation chart, as well as AAMA and AMT content areas. New software on the accompanying CD-ROM offers several new options: a test-taking mode or practice mode with feedback; customization by exam type, number of questions, or type of question; and learners may save their work or print their scores. Delmar is a part of Cengage Learning.

Promoting Treatment Adherence: A Practical Handbook for Health Care Providers

As every health care provider knows only too well, poor patient adherence to treatment is an enormous barrier to effective health care delivery. Promoting Treatment Adherence provides health care providers with a comprehensive set of information and strategies for understanding and promoting treatment adherence across a wide range of treatment types and clinical populations.

The information is presented in a practical how-to manner, and is intended as a resource that practitioners can draw from to improve skills in promoting treatment adherence. To facilitate ease of use for the practitioner, the volume is divided into five targeted sections. In the first section, the reader is provided with a general overview of the primary issues in treatment adherence relevant to practitioners. The second presents specific guidelines for assessing rates of patient adherence, as well as for assessing patient readiness to adhere to treatment and for identifying and understanding specific barriers to adherence in individual patients.  In the third section, detailed guidelines for the implementation of each of effective strategies and techniques for facilitating patient adherence to treatment are presented, including motivational interviewing, patient education, skills training, increasing resources and support, problems solving, and relapse prevention.  The fourth and fifth sections provide guidelines for the application of the information and strategies discussed in the previous sections to promoting adherence to a variety of specific treatments and with a variety of specific patient populations, with an emphasis is discussing considerations and issues specific to each treatment and patient population.  Where applicable, each of the chapters presents a case-example as well as suggestions for further reading. 

Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Successes (Health Informatics)

Healthcare practitioners and managers increasingly find themselves in clinical situations where they have to think fast and process myriad diagnostic test results, medications and past treatment responses in order to make decisions. Effective problem solving in the clinical environment or classroom simulated lab depends on a healthcare professional's immediate access to fresh information. Unable to consult a library for information, the healthcare practitioner must learn to effectively manage knowledge while thinking on their toes.

Knowledge Management (KM) holds the key to this dilemma in the healthcare environment. KM places value on the tacit knowledge that individuals hold within an institution and often makes use of IT to free up the collective wisdom of individuals within an organization. Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Successes will explore the nature of KM within contemporary healthcare institutions and associated organizations. It will provide readers with an understanding of approaches to the critical nature and use of knowledge by investigating healthcare-based KM systems. Designed to demystify the KM process and demonstrate its applicability in healthcare, this text offers contemporary and clinically-relevant lessons for future organizational implementations.

The editors of this book have assembled a group of international contributors that reflects the diversity of KM applications in the healthcare sector. While many KM texts suffer from pitching theoretical issues at too technical a level, Healthcare Knowledge Management approaches the topic from the more versatile "twin" perspectives of both academia and commerce. This unique text is integrative in nature – a practical guide to managing and developing KM that is underpinned by theory and research.

Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care

Dr. Warner Slack has reasonable opinions on the practice of medicine--whatever helps patients live happier, healthier lives is good medicine; whatever interferes with patients' health is bad; and the more knowledge and control put into patients' hands, the better. Slack also enthusiastically believes that computers are powerful tools for good medicine. Obviously, computer technology is at the root of a wide area of diagnostic and surgical tools, from CAT scans to surgical monitors, but that's not what Slack discusses. He looks at computers as communication tools for storing and retrieving information--tools that empower patients to take a greater role in their own health care and provide physicians with a wider range of knowledge and capabilities.

Slack first examines how computers in medicine have affected patients, showing how, contrary to all fears of the '50s and '60s, the computer has been a tool for humanizing medicine. The Internet has brought patients together into online help groups. Information about medical matters, once handed down to patients from on high (if at all), is now available to anyone who learns the fundamentals of a search engine. And even in treatment itself, preliminary interviews through computer forms have made patients feel more at ease, led to greater insights, and evoked feelings of being more in control. Slack explains how computers have allowed doctors to network, gain quick and easy access to all the latest technical information, and review medical information.

Slack's conclusion is that the medical world needs more computers, but he tempers his enthusiasm with caution regarding the challenges of maintaining confidentiality. Slack writes without a trace of ponderousness and with refreshing common sense. His emphasis on the patient as an intelligent human being rather than as an object to be treated is uplifting. Not only should all doctors, patients, and health care administrators read this book, they should discuss it with each other.

Written by the man Newsweek dubbed 'Cyberdoc', Cybermedicine is a passionate plea for the expanded use of computers among both doctors and patients. The book presents a compelling argument for the use of computers in the initial diagnosis and assessment of patients, for crucial decisions in the course of treatment, and for use in self-care, research, prevention of illness, and - above all - patient empowerment. Cybermedicine is filled with real-life examples from patients, practitioners, and health care institutions. Slack offers convincing evidence that computers can provide doctors with an invaluable extension of their clinical resources as well as the means for transferring more control to the patient. Slack shows that ultimately the computer has been a humanizing influence in the practice of medicine.

Advanced Pharmacy Practice for Technicians

Advanced Pharmacy Practice for Technicians goes beyond the basic training requirements for pharmacy technicians. It is the only book available that covers non-traditional areas of pharmacy practice for technicians, including telepharmacy, long-term care, home health care, managed care, hospice settings, nuclear pharmacy, and federal pharmacy. The characteristics of each specialty area are described and differentiated and the role of both the pharmacy technician and the pharmacist are clearly outlined for each practice setting.

Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice: Opportunities and Directions

How does nursing knowledge develop and how do we incorporate this knowledge into the practice of nursing?

Is it possible for nursing theory to address the needs of clinical practice?

These key questions in the field of nursing are explored in this groundbreaking work.

Based on their five-year experience as co-chairs of the New England Knowledge Conferences and the contributions of nurse clinicians and academics, the book addresses issues critical to improving the quality and delivery of health care.

Concentrating on four major themes--the current state of nursing knowledge, the philosophy of nursing knowledge, the integration of nursing knowledge with practice, and examples of the impact on health care delivery when nursing knowledge is applied--Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice gives concrete examples of how nursing knowledge can improve nursing practice and overall health care delivery both today and in the future.

Therapeutic Nursing: Improving Patient Care through Self-Awareness and Reflection

'I found the book to be fascinating and so thought provoking that it made me consider more carefully the text and prose to really understand what the author said. It is skilfully written, very readable and has implications for a wide range of people such as the undergraduate, practitioner, lecturer and researcher'

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Gaining self-awareness is a vital aspect of professional development for all who work in the caring professions. In nursing especially, the ability to evaluate oneself affects all areas of practice, including direct patient care, working relationships with colleagues and maintaining one's own well-being in the often pressured environment of health care.

This is an innovative text which explores the ways in which self-awareness can be used as a practical tool for continuing professional development and practice improvement. Divided into three parts, the book examines the role of the nurse as therapeutic practitioner, reflective learner and reflexive researcher.

For all those wishing to develop their skills as autonomous, reflective, accountable practitioners, this book will be an inspiring read. It will be of immense use to those who teach and supervise nurses at all levels.

An image of its former self: how one agency is using electronic content management to say good-bye to paper records.(INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY): An article from: Behavioral Healthcare

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Title: An image of its former self: how one agency is using electronic content management to say good-bye to paper records.(INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Author: Lindy Shultz
Publication: Behavioral Healthcare (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 9 Page: 36(2)

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Elderly individual[']s (and families [i.e. family's]) knowledge of home health care services in Salem, Oregon (HRM research project)

The importance of a Health Information Management department: HIM staff can expedite key audits for better reimbursement and quality.(featurearticle): An article from: Nursing Homes

This digital document is an article from Nursing Homes, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1122 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The importance of a Health Information Management department: HIM staff can expedite key audits for better reimbursement and quality.(featurearticle)
Author: Anissa McBreen
Publication: Nursing Homes (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 56 Issue: 9 Page: 52(2)

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