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Skills Practice Manual for LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating - E-Book
Elaine A. Gillingham | Monica Wadsworth Seibel
(2016)
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Abstract
Master skills in a simulated hospital electronic medical record before working in actual hospital practice! Nearly 100 exercises and activities in this practice manual correspond to LaFleur Brooks’ Health Unit Coordinating, 7th Edition and provide hands-on experience by specifying necessary skills, as well as the materials and steps you need to practice them. Plus, the online electronic health record that comes with this manual gives you realistic practice working on hospital computer system to help you hone skills you’ll use in the field!
- Standard organization for each activity provides a record of the tasks to be completed, such as: materials needed, situation, directions, and check lists.
- Relevant practice orders include additional scenarios to give you more practice with relevant skills.
- Printable physicians orders allow simulation for both the EHR and paper environment.
- Ordering requisitions appendix can be used for activities requiring the online EHR when a computer is not available.
- Handwritten doctors’ orders give you practice deciphering poor handwriting samples
- Clinical Evaluation Record provides a written record of your performance in the clinical setting.
- NEW! Online access to a working Electronic Health Record gives you realistic hands-on practice entering orders; admitting, transferring, and discharging patients; processing patient and order inquiries; canceling orders; entering lab and diagnostic imaging results; completing patient profiles, doctor’s rosters, and chart forms.
- NEW! Fully updated directions provides the most up-to-date information on order transcription, forms and orders, and skills evaluations that reflect working in an EHR environment.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front cover | Cover | ||
Skills practice manual for lafleur brooks’ health unit coordinating seventh edition | i | ||
Copyright page | iv | ||
Preface | v | ||
Instructions to the student | vii | ||
Table of contents | ix | ||
I Orientation to hospitals, medical centers, and health care | 1 | ||
4 Communication devices and their uses | 1 | ||
II Personal and professional skills | 9 | ||
7 Management techniques and problem-solving skills for health unit coordinating | 9 | ||
III The patient's paper chart, transcription of doctors' orders, and documentation of vital signs | 11 | ||
8 The patients chart | 11 | ||
10 Patient activity, patient positioning, and nursing observation orders | 23 | ||
11 Nursing treatment orders | 35 | ||
12 Nutritional care orders | 47 | ||
13 Medication orders | 57 | ||
14 Laboratory orders and recording telephoned laboratory results | 81 | ||
15 Diagnostic imaging orders | 111 | ||
16 Other diagnostic studies | 127 | ||
17 Treatment orders | 141 | ||
18 Miscellaneous orders | 155 | ||
IV Health unit coordinator procedures | 165 | ||
19 Admission, preoperative, and postoperative procedures | 165 | ||
20 Transcribing discharge orders | 177 | ||
Appendix A Additional transcription practice (samples of pre-printed and handwritten doctors orders) | 183 | ||
Appendix B Generic hospital forms and examples of downtime requisitions that may be used when computers are not available | 215 | ||
Appendix C The clinical evaluation record | 257 | ||
Outline | 258 | ||
To the evaluator | 259 | ||
To the student | 259 | ||
Introduction to the health care facility | 259 | ||
Objective 1: Locate the following on the nursing unit: | 259 | ||
Objective 2: Write the names of the following health care personnel on the nursing unit. | 260 | ||
Objective 3: Describe the duties of the health care personnel listed. | 260 | ||
Objective 4: Write the name of the services provided by the nursing unit (for example, medical or pediatric). | 261 | ||
Objective 5: Locate the following departments in the hospital. | 261 | ||
Objective 6: Demonstrate the use of the pneumatic tube system for conveying devices by sending a tube or conveyor to anoth ... | 261 | ||
Objective 7: Demonstrate the correct assembly and labeling of a patient’s chart. | 262 | ||
Objective 8: Locate the area where patient care forms are stored. | 262 | ||
Objective 9: Identify the standard forms used to prepare a patient’s chart at the time of admission to the unit. | 262 | ||
Objective 10: Collect a sample of the following supplemental forms. | 262 | ||
Objective 11: List other supplemental forms used on the nursing unit. | 262 | ||
Objective 12: A. locate the area on the nursing unit where the central service department supplies are stored. | 262 | ||
Objective 13: Locate the following resource materials on the nursing unit (may be computerized or hard copy). | 263 | ||
Objective 14: Locate the surgery schedule for your nursing unit and identify which patients from your floor are scheduled ... | 263 | ||
Health unit coordinator communication skills and professionalism | 264 | ||
Objective 1: Demonstrate communication skills. | 264 | ||
Objective 2: Demonstrate professional standards. | 264 | ||
Communication devices | 266 | ||
Objective 1: Demonstrate effective telephone communication skills whenanswering incoming calls. | 266 | ||
Objective 2: Demonstrate effective telephone communication skills when making outgoing calls. | 266 | ||
Objective 3: Demonstrate effective telephone communication skills when leaving a voice mail message. | 266 | ||
Objective 4: Demonstrate effective telephone communication skills when paging. | 267 | ||
Objective 5: Demonstrate the use of fax machine by faxing pharmacy copies. | 267 | ||
Objective 6: Demonstrate the use of scanner by scanning standard chart forms. | 267 | ||
Objective 7: Demonstrate appropriate communication skills using the intercom. | 267 | ||
Objective 8: Demonstrate the use of locator or wireless device by locating hospital personnel. | 267 | ||
Objective 9: Demonstrate required computer skills. | 267 | ||
Legalities and confidentiality: Dealing with patient information | 269 | ||
Objective 1: Demonstrate knowledge andapplication of the Health InsurancePortability and Accountability Actrequirements. | 269 | ||
Objective 2: Demonstrate the following legal guidelines when dealing with patient charts and legal documents. | 269 | ||
Routine health unit coordinator tasks | 270 | ||
Objective 1: Given a written set of 20or more vital signs, graph the temperature,pulse, and respiration (TPR) and bloodpressure (BP) on patients’ graphic sheets. | 270 | ||
Objective 2: Order daily diagnostic tests for the patients on your unit. | 270 | ||
Objective 3: Transcribe admission, transfer, and discharge data on the daily census record. | 270 | ||
Objective 4: File diagnostic reports in patients’ charts. compare each patient’s name on the diagnostic report with th ... | 270 | ||
Transcription of physicians’ orders | 271 | ||
Objective 1: Transcribe activity, positioning,and nursing observation orders. | 271 | ||
Objective 2: Transcribe nursing treatment orders. | 272 | ||
Objective 3: Transcribe nutritional care orders. | 272 | ||
Objective 4: Transcribe medication orders. | 272 | ||
Objective 5: Transcribe laboratory orders. | 273 | ||
Objective 6: Transcribe diagnostic imaging orders. | 274 | ||
Objective 7: Transcribe cardiopulmonary (respiratory care) orders. | 275 | ||
Objective 8: Transcribe cardiovascular diagnostic orders. | 275 | ||
Objective 9: Transcribe cardiac catheterization orders. | 276 | ||
Objective 10: Transcribe neurology orders. | 276 | ||
Objective 11: Transcribe physical therapy orders. | 276 | ||
Objective 12: Transcribe occupational therapy orders. | 276 | ||
Objective 13: Transcribe miscellaneous orders. | 276 | ||
Health unit coordinating procedures | 277 | ||
Objective 1: Perform admission procedures. | 277 | ||
Objective 2: Perform discharge procedures. | 278 | ||
Objective 3: Perform additional steps for discharge to another facility. | 279 | ||
Objective 4: Perform additional steps for discharge home with assistance. | 280 | ||
Objective 5: Perform postmortem procedures. | 280 | ||
Objective 6: Perform procedures for transfer of patient to another unit within the hospital. | 280 | ||
objective 7: Perform procedures for transfer of patient to another room on the same unit. | 281 | ||
Objective 8: Perform procedures for receiving a transferred patient. | 281 | ||
Objective 9: Perform preoperative procedures. | 282 | ||
Objective 10: Perform postoperative procedures | 282 | ||
Management of the unit | 283 | ||
Objective 1: Assign cell phones or wirelessdevices to unit staff with appropriatedocumentation. | 283 | ||
Objective 2: Add or remove nursing staff assignments to or from the treatment team, or assist with staffing assignments. | 283 | ||
Objective 3: Monitor and maintain the electronic record. | 284 | ||
Objective 4: Maintain inventories and order or request supplies, services, and equipment as directed, including office sup ... | 284 | ||
Objective 5: Gather data and complete administrative reports (daily, weekly, monthly). | 284 | ||
Objective 6: Coordinate and attend staff education events and inservices. | 284 | ||
Objective 7: Assist with the management and capture of patient charges as necessary. | 284 | ||
Organization and prioritizing skills | 285 | ||
Objective 1: Demonstrate knowledge ofcode procedures. | 285 | ||
Objective 2: Perform tasks in a conscientious manner. | 285 | ||
Objective 3: Demonstrate accuracy when transcribing doctors’ orders. | 285 | ||
Objective 4: Demonstrate initiative. | 286 | ||
Objective 5: Demonstrate thoroughness. | 286 | ||
Objective 6: Demonstrate ability to establish priorities on the job. | 286 | ||
Objective 7: Demonstrate ability to multitask. | 286 | ||
Objective 8: Demonstrate the ability to plan a day’s activities. | 287 |