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Mastering Healthcare Terminology

Master the terminology you need to communicate clearly and confidently in the healthcare setting! Using small learning segments or "chunks," Mastering Healthcare Terminology, 7t… Leer más

Descripción

Master the terminology you need to communicate clearly and confidently in the healthcare setting! Using small learning segments or "chunks," Mastering Healthcare Terminology, 7th Edition makes it easy to learn medical terms and definitions. Concepts and terms are immediately followed by exercises to reinforce and assess your understanding. Organizing terminology by body system, the book covers prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, and realistic case studies help you apply your knowledge to practice. Special boxes help you avoid terminology pitfalls. Written by respected educator Betsy Shiland, this book includes an Evolve website with medical animations, flash cards, quizzes, word games, and more.

Puntos claves

  • Frequent word part and word building exercises reinforce your understanding with immediate opportunities for practice and review
  • Pathology and diagnostic terminology tables summarize the phonetic pronunciation of terms, word origin, and definitions
  • Case studies provide an opportunity to see terminology in use
  • Be Careful boxes remind you of potentially confusing look-alike or sound-alike word parts and terms
  • Age Matters boxes highlight important concepts and terminology for both pediatric and geriatric patients
  • Labeling exercises and hundreds of illustrations help you learn anatomy and the accompanying combining forms
  • Focus On boxes put it all together by highlighting a disorder or procedure that uses the medical terminology presented throughout the chapter
  • Coverage of electronic medical records prepares you for using EHR in the healthcare setting
  • Evolve website includes medical animations, electronic flash cards, quizzes, and word games such as Tournament of Terminology, Medical Millionaire, and Match the Word Part

De interès para

Medical terminology students in a wide variety of health professional fields

Índice

PART I BASIC TERMINOLOGY

1. Introduction to Healthcare Terminology

2. Body Structure and Directional Terminology

PART II BODY SYSTEM TERMINOLOGY

3. Musculoskeletal System

4. Integumentary System

5. Gastrointestinal System

6. Urinary System

7. Male Reproductive System

8. Female Reproductive System and Pregnancy

9. Blood, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems

10. Cardiovascular System

11. Respiratory System

12. Nervous System

13. Eye and Ear

14. Endocrine System

PART III SPECIALTY TERMINOLOGY

15. Mental and Behavioral Health

16. Oncology

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Betsy J. Shiland

Betsy Shiland has authored 2 very successful medical terminology texts, along with a statistics text for health information management students. She is a credentialed coder (CCS, CPC), an EMT, a cancer registrar, and a health data administrator. She taught at Central College in Philadelphia for over 20 years.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Former Assistant Professor, Allied Health Department, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA