The perfect chapter-by-chapter companion to Kinn's The Medical Assistant, 11th Edition, the study guide and procedure checklist manual provide unparalleled review of the practical, real-world administrative and clinical skills essential to your success in health care. Engaging study tools and practice exercises make it easy to review essential concepts, assess your understanding, and confidently prepare for today's competitive job market.
- A variety of exercises test your content knowledge and critical thinking skills through Vocabulary Review, Short Answer, Fill in the Blank, and True/False questions.
- End-of-chapter Quizzes on Evolve help you assess your understanding of chapter content.
- Work Products enable you to provide documentation to your instructor and accrediting organizations to demonstrate a completed competency.
- Up-to-date content reflects current CAAHEP and ABHES standards on Patient Education, Documentation, and more.
- A guide to English-Spanish Terms helps you explain important concepts to a broader range of patients.
- Additional exercises including Skills & Concepts, Word Puzzles, Case Studies, Workplace Applications, andInternet Activities make studying more engaging and reinforce your understanding.
- Expanded coverage of the Electronic Health Record and accompanyingPractice Partner E.H.R. activities on Evolve keep you up to date with emerging tools in the field.
- Procedure Checklists Manual packaged with your study guide helps you track your performance of every procedure included in the textbook.
- Separately bound Study Guide and Procedure Checklist Manual enable you to carry just the individual resources you need with you to class or the lab.
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.
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.
Martha (Marti) Garrels is a former Professor and Program Director of the Medical Assisting program at Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend, Indiana, and Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland, Washington. She has been an active member of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) for more than 25 years.
