Skills Practice Manual for LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating (Paperback, 7 ed)

Section 1: Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care

• 4. Communication Devices and Their Uses

Section 2: Personal and Professional Skills

• 7. Management Techniques and Problem-Solving Skills for Health Unit Coordinating

Section 3: The Patient’s Electronic Record or Paper Chart, Transcription of Doctors’ Orders, and Documentation of Vital Signs

• 8. The Patient’s Electronic Medical Record or Paper Chart
• 10. Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, and Nursing Observation Orders
• 11. Nursing Treatment Orders
• 12. Nutritional Care Orders
• 13. Medication Orders
• 14. Laboratory Orders and Recording Telephoned Laboratory Results
• 15. Diagnostic Imaging Orders
• 16. Other Diagnostic Studies
• 17. Treatment Orders
• 18. Miscellaneous Orders

Section 4: Health Unit Coordinator Procedures

• 19. Admission, Preoperative, and Postoperative Procedures
• 20. Transcribing Discharge Orders

• Appendix A: Physicians’ Order Sheets
• Appendix B: Generic Hospital Forms and Examples of Computer Screens that May Be Used as Ordering Requisitions When Computers Are Not Available
• Appendix C: The Clinical Evaluation Record