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Grammar And Writing Skills For The Health Professional

by: Villemaire, Lorraine; Oberg, Doreen

Grammar And Writing Skills For The Health Professional

by: Villemaire, Lorraine; Oberg, Doreen

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9781401873745
ISBN 10:
140187374X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/29/2005
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The rules and standards of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) make it more important than ever that health professionals be clear in their written communications. Grammar and Writing Skills for the Health Professional, 2e applies the fundamentals of English grammar and the writing process to sentence and paragraph structures used in medical reporting, charting and documentation. This book focuses exclusively on the writing concerns of the health care worker and is perfect for you to use in class and as a reference.

Guidelines for Effective Writing Skills

(14)

Objectives

(1)

The Writing Process

(3)

Step One: Prewriting

(1)

Step Two: Writing

(1)

Step Three: Rewriting

(2)

Step 4: Finalizing

(1)

Step Five: Proofreading

(1)

Writing Style

(5)

Computer Writing

(1)

Medical Spelling

(1)

Guidelines for Effective Writing Summary

(1)

Skills Review

(1)

Comprehensive Review

(3)

Nouns

(36)

Objectives

(1)

Types of Nouns

(3)

Proper and Common Nouns

(2)

Collective Nouns

(1)

Concrete Nouns

(1)

Abstract Nouns

(1)

Characteristics and Functions of Nouns

(11)

Gender

(1)

Number

(1)

Forming Plurals in General

(1)

Forming the Plurals of Medical Terms

(2)

Functions of Nouns

(1)

Nominative Case: Subject

(1)

Nominative Case: Predicate Noun

(1)

Objective Case

(2)

Possessive Case

(2)

Appositives and Direct Address

(1)

Nouns Functioning as Phrases or Clauses

(1)

Nouns Summary

(2)

Medical Spelling

(1)

Medical Office Correspondence

(1)

The Medical Letter

(12)

Letter Components

(1)

Heading

(1)

Inside Address

(1)

Salutation

(1)

Body

(1)

Closing and Signature

(1)

Other Notations

(3)

Formats and Presentation of Letters

(3)

Folding the Letter

(1)

Business Envelope (9 1/2 by 4 3/16 inches)

(1)

Use the Envelope to Get the Folds Right

(1)

Smaller Envelopes

(1)

Envelopes with Windows

(1)

Addressing the Envelope

(1)

Medical Office Correspondence Summary

(4)

Medical Letter Format

(4)

Comprehensive Review

(2)

Pronouns

(23)

Objectives

(1)

Types of Pronouns

(10)

Personal Pronouns

(1)

Gender

(1)

Number and Person

(1)

Nominative Case

(2)

Objective Case

(1)

Possessive Case

(1)

Reflexive Pronouns

(1)

Relative Pronouns

(1)

Indefinite Pronouns

(1)

Interrogative Pronouns

(1)

Demonstrative Pronouns

(1)

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

(2)

Number

(1)

Gender

(1)

Person

(1)

Pronoun Summary

(1)

Medical Spelling

(1)

The Office Memorandum

(3)

Structure of a Memo

(1)

Writing the Memo

(3)

Electronic Mail

(1)

E-Mail Guidelines

(1)

Office Memorandum and Electronic Mail Summary

(3)

Comprehensive Review

(2)

Verbs

(29)

Objectives

(1)

Types of Verbs

(1)

Action Verbs

(5)

Being Verbs

(1)

Main Verbs and Helping Verbs

(1)

Common Helping Verbs

(1)

Linking Verbs

(1)

Common Linking Verbs

(1)

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

(1)

Gerunds

(1)

Infinitives

(1)

Person of a Verb

(1)

Number of a Verb

(2)

Verb Tenses

(1)

Present Tense

(1)

Past Tense

(1)

Future Tense

(1)

Principal Parts of Verbs

(6)

Regular Verbs

(2)

Irregular Verbs

(2)

Confusing and Troublesome Verbs

(1)

Lie and Lay

(1)

Rise and Raise

(1)

May and Can

(1)

Use of Verb Tenses in Sentences

(1)

Voices of Verbs

(1)

Active and Passive Verbs

(1)

Identifying the Passive Voice

(1)

Moods of Verbs

(1)

Verbs Summary

(2)

Verb tenses

(1)

Principal parts of speech

(1)

Regular

(1)

Irregular

(1)

Voices of verbs

(1)

Moods of verbs

(1)

Medical Spelling

(1)

The Medical Record

(3)

The Language of the Medical Record

(1)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

(4)

Comprehensive Review

101

(2)

Sentences

103

(29)

Objectives

103

(1)

Components of Sentences

104

(1)

Sentence Structure

105

(1)

Simple Sentences

105

(1)

Compound Sentences

105

(1)

Complex Sentences

105

(1)

Compound-Complex Sentences

105

(1)

Classifications of Sentences

106

(2)

Declarative Sentences

106

(1)

Imperative Sentences

107

(1)

Interrogative Sentences

107

(1)

Exclamatory Sentences

107

(1)

Ineffective Sentences

108

(3)

The Fragmented Sentence

108

(1)

The Comma Splice

109

(1)

The Run-on sentence

109

(2)

Effective Sentences

111

(8)

Parallel Structure

112

(1)

Conciseness

113

(3)

Diction

116

(2)

Positive Statements

118

(1)

Sentence Summary

119

(1)

Classifications of Sentences

119

(1)

Medical Spelling

120

(1)

Charting and Documenting

121

(5)

Traditional or Narrative Charting

121

(1)

SOAP

122

(1)

SOAPE

123

(1)

SOAPIE

123

(1)

SOAPIER

123

(1)

PIE

123

(3)

Charting and Documenting Summary

126

(5)

Comprehensive Review

131

(1)

Punctuation

132

(63)

Objectives

132

(1)

Punctuation

133

(2)

The Period

133

(1)

Other Uses for the Period

133

(1)

The Question Mark

134

(1)

The Exclamation Point

134

(1)

The Comma

135

(3)

The Semicolon

138

(2)

The Colon

140

(2)

Parentheses

142

(1)

The Dash

142

(1)

The Hyphen

143

(1)

The Apostrophe

143

(1)

Italics

143

(1)

Quotation Marks

144

(1)

Punctuation Summary

145

(3)

Medical Spelling

148

(1)

History and Physical Reports

149

(1)

Consultation Report

150

(2)

Medical Reports Summary

152

(1)

Skills Review

152

(2)

Comprehensive Review

154

(41)

Adjectives

195

(27)

Objectives

155

(1)

Types of Adjectives

155

(6)

Limiting Adjectives

156

(1)

A and AN

156

(1)

Singular and Plural

157

(1)

Interrogative and Proper Adjectives

158

(1)

Predicate and Compound Adjectives

158

(2)

Descriptive Adjectives

160

(1)

Placement of Adjectives

161

(1)

Modifiers and Placement

162

(1)

Degrees of Adjectives to Express Comparison

163

(3)

Positive

163

(1)

Comparative

164

(1)

Superlative

164

(1)

Other Comparisons

165

(1)

Troublesome Adjectives

166

(1)

Eponyms

167

(1)

Adjectives Summary

167

(1)

Degrees of Comparison Summary

168

(1)

Medical Spelling

168

(1)

Radiology Report

169

(1)

Pathology Report

169

(1)

Discharge Summary

170

(3)

Operative Report

173

(1)

Medical Reports Summary

174

(3)

Comprehensive Review

177

(45)

Adverbs

222

Objectives

178

(1)

Recognizing Adverbs

178

(2)

Adverbs as Modifiers

180

(1)

Frequency Adverbs

181

(1)

Degrees of Adverbs to Express Comparison

181

(2)

Positive

181

(1)

Comparative

181

(1)

Superlative

182

(1)

Other Comparisons

182

(1)

Changing Adjectives into Adverbs

183

(1)

Negative Adverbs

184

(1)

Not as a Contraction

184

(1)

Double Negatives

184

(1)

Placement of Adverbs

185

(1)

Troublesome Adverbs

186

(1)

Adverbs Summary

186

(1)

Medical Spelling

187

(1)

Facsimile

187

(1)

Phone Messages

188

(1)

Minutes of a Meeting

189

(2)

Facsimile, Phone Message, and Minutes of a Meeting Summary

191

(2)

Comprehensive Review

193

(2)

Prepositions and Conjunctions

195

(27)

Objectives

195

(1)

Prepositions

195

(8)

Compound Prepositions

197

(1)

Prepositional Phrases

198

(1)

Prepositional Noun/Pronoun Modifiers

199

(1)

Prepositional Verb Modifiers

200

(1)

Problematic Prepositions

201

(1)

Prepositions at the End of a Sentence

202

(1)

Conjunctions

203

(1)

Coordinating Conjunctions

203

(1)

Correlative Conjunctions

204

(1)

Subordinating Conjunctions

204

(1)

Prepositions and Conjunctions Summary

204

(2)

Summary of the Parts of Speech

206

(1)

Medical Spelling

206

(1)

Research, Manuscripts, Grants

207

(1)

Research

207

(1)

Manuscripts

208

(3)

General Format Guidelines

208

(1)

APA Writing Style

208

(1)

Title Page

209

(1)

Abstract Page

209

(1)

Text Page

209

(1)

Reference Page

210

(1)

Citations

210

(1)

Grant Writing

211

(6)

Proposal Summary

212

(1)

Introduction

212

(1)

Problem Statement

212

(1)

Goals and Objectives

212

(1)

Methods

213

(1)

Evaluation

213

(1)

Future Funding

213

(1)

Budget

213

(1)

Appendix

213

(4)

Research, Manuscripts, Grants Summary

217

(3)

Comprehensive Review

220

(2)

Phrases and Clauses

222

(19)

Objectives

222

(1)

Phrases

222

(6)

Prepositional Phrase

223

(1)

Prepositional Phrase Used As a Noun

223

(1)

Prepositional Phrase Used As an Adjective

224

(1)

Prepositional Phrase Used As an Adverb

224

(1)

Verbal Phrases

225

(1)

Participial Phrase

225

(1)

Gerund Phrase

225

(1)

Infinitive Phrase

226

(2)

Appositive Phrase

228

(1)

Clauses

228

(2)

Independent Clauses

228

(1)

Dependent Clauses

228

(2)

Noun Clause

230

(1)

Adjective Clause

230

(1)

Adverb Clause

230

(1)

Phrases Summary

231

(1)

Clauses Summary

232

(1)

Medical Spelling

232

(1)

Promotional Writing

233

(7)

Comprehensive Review

240

(1)

The Paragraph

241

(15)

Objectives

241

(2)

Types of Paragraphs

243

(2)

Narrative Paragraph

243

(1)

Descriptive Paragraph

244

(1)

Expository Paragraph

244

(1)

Persuasive Paragraph

244

(1)

Structure of a Paragraph

245

(2)

Topic Sentence

245

(1)

Supporting Sentences

245

(1)

Concluding Sentence

246

(1)

Putting It All Together

246

(1)

Paragraph Organization

247

(2)

Time Example

247

(1)

Location Example

248

(1)

Deduction Example

248

(1)

Induction Example

248

(1)

Cause and Effect Example

248

(1)

Comparison Example

248

(1)

Definition Example

249

(1)

Paragraph Unity

249

(2)

Paragraph Summary

251

(1)

Medical Spelling

251

(3)

Comprehensive Review

254

(2)

Appendix A: Spelling Rules

256

(4)

Appendix B: Capitalization Rules

260

(2)

Appendix C: Number Use

262

(2)

Appendix D: Cliches

264

(2)

Appendix E: Title and Salutations

266

(5)

Appendix F: Instructor's Symbols for Correction

271

(1)

Appendix G: General Rules for Abbreviations

272

(2)

Appendix H: Medical Abbreviations and Symbols

274

(11)

Appendix I: Use of a Thesaurus

285

(1)

Appendix J: Use of the English Dictionary

286

(2)

Appendix K: Use of the Medical Dictionary

288

(1)

Appendix L: Answers to Practical Exercises

289

(12)

Index

301

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140187374X

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