Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach

Administrative Medical Assisting begins with Kinn! Elsevier’s Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 13th Edition provides you with the real-world administrative skills that are essential to working in the modern medical office. An applied learning approach to the MA curriculum is threaded throughout each chapter to help you further develop the tactile and critical thinking skills necessary in today’s healthcare setting. Paired with our adaptive solutions, EHR documentation, ICD-10 coverage and, detailed procedural videos, you will learn the professional and interpersonal skills of modern administrative medical assisting!

• Professionalism in applicable procedures teaches you how to properly interact with patients and coworkers.
• Professional behavior boxes provide guidelines on how to interact with patients, families, and coworkers.
• Step-by-step procedures explain complex conditions and abstract concepts.
• Patient education and legal and ethical issues are described in relation to the Medical Assistant's job.
• Critical thinking applications test your understanding of the content.
• Threaded case scenarios help you to apply concepts to realistic administrative situations.
• Portfolio builder helps you demonstrate proficiency to potential employers.

• NEW! Chapter on The Health Record reviews how you’ll be working with a patient’s medical record.
• NEW! Chapter on Technology in the Medical Office introduces you to the role technology plays in the medical office.
• NEW! Administrative procedure videos helps you visualize and review key procedures.
• NEW! Chapter on Competency-Based Education helps you to understand how your mastery of the material will affect your ability to get a job.
• Basics of Diagnostic Coding prepares you to use ICD-10 coding system.

Brigitte Niedzwiecki began her healthcare career as a nurse, working in the hospital with surgical and pediatric patients and also in urgent care. After obtaining her master’s degree in nursing, Brigitte worked in patient and staff education, as a software trainer, and as a nurse educator before transitioning into education. She has been the Medical Assisting program director at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, during which time she has participated in reviewing and writing and has helped develop state and national Medical Assisting curricula. She is also lead author of Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, a related MA core text designed primarily for programs that do not offer a separate A&P course and are focused on certification.

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.