Learn how to handle the legal and ethical challenges you will encounter in healthcare practice! Comprehensive yet easy to understand, Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 5th Edition provides a guide to legal concepts and ethical principles and how they are applied in common healthcare scenarios. Content includes key topics such as the legal system, bioethical issues, employment laws, torts, and medical malpractice and liability, as well as current issues such as medical marijuana, the opioid crisis, gender identity, and public health and immunization policies. Questions in each chapter ask you to think critically as you relate concepts to real-world situations. Updated to meet the needs of today's workplace, this text prepares you to fulfill the moral and professional responsibilities of the healthcare provider. Case studies reflect the issues faced in a variety of healthcare settings. Specialty practice cases provide practical application of legal and ethical issues in specialties such as medical assisting, MIBC, and pharm tech. What If? boxes present ethical dilemmas and help you apply concepts to real-life scenarios. Internet Activities at the end of every chapter suggest related topics for further research and study. Chapter objectives and key terms are listed at the beginning of each chapter, providing learning goals and definitions of important terminology. Relate to Practice boxes help you respond to situations that may occur in healthcare practice. Self-Reflection Questions challenge you to analyze and evaluate various legal and ethical issues. NEW! Mandatory Reporting and Public Duties in Healthcare chapter covers public health law, including the role of state and federal health agencies in managing infectious diseases, emergencies, chronic diseases, and injury prevention. NEW! Conflict Management chapter addresses aspects of this important workplace topic.

Get a hands-on introduction to the medical office electronic health record! Learning the Medical Office Workflow, 2023 Edition, provides full access to SimChart® for the Medical Office (SCMO), Elsevier's educational simulated electronic health record (EHR), plus step-by-step instructions to all the medical assisting simulations. You'll become acclimated to these simulations by completing more than 50 hours of practice tasks that address essential ABHES and CAAHEP Medical Assisting educational competencies. This procedure manual uses screenshots and best practices to make it easier for you to work through SCMO tasks and assignments in order to master documentation skills and prepare for externship and practice. Intuitive and realistic learning environment provides students with a safe classroom environment to develop key documentation skills. UNIQUE! 110 interactive assignments are aligned with ABHES, CAAHEP, and applicable CAHIIM competencies, from front office skills to clinical skills to practice management skills - providing more than 50 hours of documentation practice. Step-by-step instructions and accompanying SCMO screen shots help students break down common tasks and learn to work accurately and efficiently. Hands-on practice makes it easier for students to learn core competencies, with scenarios simulating the real-world administrative duties of the medical assistant. Administrative tasks give students practice managing patient scheduling in a multi-doctor practice, documenting a variety of services, processing insurance claims, posting payments, and much more. Simulation Playground with instructions and screenshots supplements the prebuilt assignments to give students unlimited practice with the material. REVISED! Each task is mapped to the 2022 Medical Assisting CAAHEP accreditation competencies, as well as applicable ABHES and CAHIIM guidelines.