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Competency Check-Off Guides: Building Confidence Through Core Competency Checklists

By Kris Hardy, CMA, CDF, RHE, AS, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1468-0
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1468-3

260 pp. Soft cover, perforated.  ©2006  Available now. $29.95

Competency Check-Off Guides: Building Confidence Through Core Competency Checklists
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An invaluable assessment tool and additional teaching tool for the MA instructor! The text takes a hands-on approach that allows students to build confidence as they master each competency, step-by-step. The competency guides are designed to be used as stand-alone assessment tools or as a supplement to a core MA text.
Key Features
  • Step-by-step competency instruction for all three areas:
    • Clinical
    • Administrative
    • General
  • Charting Guidelines
  • Table of Contents that links each competency with each accrediting body standard
  • Data Base providing critical patient information to facilitate better patient understanding
  • Covers all CAAHEP and ABHES procedural standards
  • Competency steps shown with icon to highlight safety guidelines

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Table of Contents
 
  • Part 1 Performance Criteria
    Evaluation Accumulation—CAAHEP
    Performance Criteria
    Evaluation Accumulation—ABHES
    Performance Objectives
  • Part 2 Curriculum/Entry-level Competencies
    AAMA/CAAHEP—Curriculum/Entry-Level Competencies
    AMT/ABHES—Course Content/Entry-Level Competencies
  • Part 3 Database

 
  • Part 4 Administrative Competencies
    Practicum 1: Adapting to Change
    Practicum 2: Confidentiality
    Practicum 3: Professionalism
    Practicum 4: Legislative Issues
    Practicum 5: Office Policies
    Practicum 6: Patient Teaching
    Practicum 7: Working Within the Community
    Practicum 8: Physician Management
    Practicum 9: Appointment Management
    Practicum 10: Admissions
    Practicum 11: Medical Records
    Practicum 12: Terminating Medical Treatment
    Practicum 13: Medical Transcription
    Practicum 14: Petty Cash
    Practicum 15: Bank Transactions
    Practicum 16: Accounting Procedures
    Practicum 17: Billing and Collection
    Practicum 18: Third-Party Management
    Practicum 19: Insurance/Coding
    Practicum 20: Office Maintenance
    Practicum 21: Payroll

 
  • Part 5 Clinical Competencies
    Practicum 22: Infection Control
    Practicum 23: Telephone Screening
    Practicum 24: Vital Signs
    Practicum 25: Patient History/Communication
    Practicum 26: Examination and Treatment Areas
    Practicum 27: Assisting with Examinations
    Practicum 28: Assisting with Procedures
    Practicum 29: Assisting with Oral Medications
    Practicum 30: Assisting with Parenteral Medications
    Practicum 31: Medication Records
    Practicum 32: Risk Management
    Practicum 33: Venipuncture/Standard Precaution
    Practicum 34: Capillary Puncture
    Practicum 35: Microbiology Testing
    Practicum 36: Urine Collection/Patient Instructions
    Practicum 37: Hematology Testing
    Practicum 38: Immunology Testing
    Practicum 39: Urinalysis/Quality Control
    Practicum 40: Cardiac Testing
    Practicum 41: Respiratory Testing
    Practicum 42: CPR and First Aid

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