Health Unit Coordinating: Expanding the Scope of Practice

By Madeline A. Clark, Madeline A. Clark RN BGS CHUC, Virginia S. Mazza RN CHUC

Written primarily by health unit coordinators: Expanding the Scope of Practice is the first book to explore the wide variety of employment opportunities available to the health unit coordinator. The books four sectionshospital specialty units, expanded hospital roles, the health care industry, and clinical codingaddress the advanced concepts and health unit coordinators roles in each speciality unit.Each chapter discusses a different role in that particular specialty unit and includes a description; the anatomy and physiology related to that speciality; frequently used medications; diagnostic procedures;treatments; equipment and supplies; typical documentation, and the units impact on the profession.A separate section on coding provides chapters on The Overview of Clinical Coding, The Coding Process, and The Clinical Coder.
Vocabulary words and abbreviations are listed at the beginning of each chapter for easy reference, and appear in bold face type the first time they are used in the text to emphasize their importance.The book also serves as a daily reference for health unit coordinators in their daily activities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721670369
• ISBN13: 9780721670362
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.5"