This third edition reflects the latest changes in health care technology as well as the latest unit coordinating practice. It aims to be a comprehensive text that presents material in the form of "Doctor's Orders" including examples and the background material required to understand them. A reference for building orientation programmes, this book also provides practice in writing unit co-ordinating procedures. The text contains study questions with answers to reinforce comprehension, in-depth guidelines for medical terminology, professionalism, communication and assertion skills, a comprehensive list of abbreviations and a vocabulary list accompanied by exercises, medical terminology word element list as an aid in transcription, lists of laboratory studies and normal laboratory values as a reference guide when transcribing orders and an Instuctor's Manual includes computer disk simulating a hospital system.
- ISBN10 0721643027
- ISBN13 9780721643021
- Publish Date November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences
- Imprint W B Saunders Co Ltd
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 541
- Language English