Extremely student friendly, GRAMMAR & WRITING SKILLS FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, 3e, focuses on the fundamentals of grammar and writing to help you develop the skills to communicate clearly and effectively in real-world practice. An indispensable resource the can be used during your schooling as well as you when enter your career, the text is divided into three modules. The first focuses on basic grammar (nouns, pronouns, verbs) and the second on more advanced topics (sentences and paragraphs). The third module helps you develop writing skills for medical reports, correspondence, emails, office meeting minutes, progress notes, charting, research, and brochures. The text's unique writing process can also be used for cover letters and resumes. In addition, the text includes current information on HIPAA, the Joint Commission, American Health Management Information Association, and much more, while real-world applications at the end of every section illustrate how chapter concepts relate to your future career.
MODULE I.
Section 1: Noun. Noun plurals. Function of nouns. Medical Assisting Creed of
the AAMA statement of beliefs. Medical office correspondence.
Section 2: Pronouns. Personal pronouns. Reflexive. Relative. Indefinite.
Interrogative. Demonstrative. Pronoun-antecedent. Commonly confused pronouns.
Office memorandum/memo. Email.
Section 3: Verbs. Action. Being. Main verbs and helping verbs. Linking verbs.
Transitive and intransitive. Gerunds. Infinitives. Verb tense. Regular and
irregular verbs. Confusing and troublesome verbs. Use of verb tense. Voices
of verbs. Moods of verbs. The Medical Record/Electronic Health Record
(HER)/Electronic Medical Record (EMR). The American Health Information
Management Association (AHIMA). The Joint Commission (TJC) and the
Accreditation of Health Care Facilities. The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Section 4: Adjectives. Limiting. Interrogative and proper adjectives.
Predicate and compound adjectives. Descriptive adjective. Degrees of
adjectives. Troublesome adjectives. Eponyms. Medical reports. Radiology.
Pathology. Discharge. Operative.
Section 5: Adverbs. Adverbs as modifiers. Degrees of comparison. Irregular
adverbs. Changing adjectives into adverbs. Negative adverbs. Double
negatives. Placement of adverbs. Troublesome adverbs. Fax. Phone courtesy.
Messages. Minutes of a meeting.
MODULE
2.
Section 6: The Sentence. Components. Independent and dependent clause.
Phrases. Types of sentences. Classification of sentences. Effective
sentences. Progress notes, charting.
Section 7: Punctuation. Period. Exclamation mark. Question mark. Comma.
Semi-colon. Parenthesis. Dash. Hyphen. Apostrophe. Quotation marks. Medical
reports. History and physical. Consultation.
Section 8: Preposition, conjunction and paragraph. Compound prepositions.
Prepositional modifiers. Problematic prepositions. Coordinating conjunctions.
Correlative conjunctions. Subordinating conjunctions. Paragraphs types.
Structure of the paragraph. Paragraph organization. Medical writing.
Manuscripts and research. APA style. Promotional writing.
MODULE
3.
Section 9: Writing process. Prewriting. Writing and rewriting. Proofreading
for final draft.
Section 10: The Resume. Essentials of the resume/work-up. Contact
information. Related skills. Education/awards/honors. Certification.
Memberships/conferences. References. Objective. Keywords. Three types of
resumes. Chronological resume. Functional resume. Hybrid/combination resume.
Cover letter.
Section 11: Appendix. Spelling rules. Capitalization rules. Number use.
Clichés. Titles and salutations. Use of a thesaurus. Use of the English
dictionary. Use of the medical dictionary.
Doreen Villemaire Oberg, M.Ed, RN, CMA, has enjoyed a vast array of experiences during her career as nurse, teacher, and administrator. As a nurse she has worked in intravenous therapy, PACU, ICU, and pediatric nursing. As a teacher she has taught courses for practitioners ranging from administrative personnel through the clinical sciences to medical assistants and health professionals at the college level. As an administrator she brought her medical and educational knowledge together as chairperson of a growing medical assistant program in New England, where she was involved in the development, evolution, and opening of several medical assisting programs. Now she is semi-retired and lives in Florida.
