Section 1. Orientation to Hospitals, Medical Centers, and Health Care
1. Health Unit Coordinating: An Allied Health Career
2. Overview of Health Care Today
3. The Nursing Department
4. Communication Devices and Their Uses
Section 2. Personal and Professional Skills
5. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
6. Workplace Behavior: Ethics and Legal Concepts
7. Management Techniques and Problem-Solving Skills for Health Unit Coordinating
Section 3. The Patient's Chart or Electronic Record and Transcription and Monitoring of Doctors' Orders
8. The Patient's Chart or Electronic Medical Record
9. Transcription of Doctors' Handwritten Orders
10. Patient Activity, Patient Positioning, and Nursing Observation Orders
11. Nursing Intervention or 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. Discharge, Transfer, and Postmortem Procedures
21. Recording Vital Signs, Ordering Supplies, Daily Diagnostic Tests, and Filing
22. Reports, Infection Control, Emergencies, and Special Services
Section 5. Introduction to Anatomic Structures, Medical Terms, and Illnesses
23. Medical Terminology, Basic Human Structure, and Disorders
Appendices
A. Abbreviations
B. Word Parts
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
Index
