HLTCCD003 - Use medical terminology in health care

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Unit code: HLTCCD003 | Study level: TAFE
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Prerequisites
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to apply an understanding of medical terminology to interpret clinical documentation and communicate with health care professionals.This unit applies to health care professionals who are responsible for interpreting patient clinical information for the purposes of providing health care services. Work may be performed as an individual or as part of a team under limited supervision.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • use accurate medical terminology, clinical abbreviations and acronyms in at least one oral and one written communication relating to each of the following:
  • infectious and parasitic diseases
  • neoplasms
  • diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and disorders involving the immune mechanism.
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • mental and behavioural disorders
  • diseases of the nervous system
  • diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • diseases of the ear and mastoid process
  • diseases of the circulatory system
  • diseases of the respiratory system
  • diseases of the digestive system
  • diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
  • diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • diseases of the genitourinary system
  • pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium conditions originating in the perinatal period including congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
  • injury, poisoning and causes of morbidity and mortality.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • medical terminology for interpretation of clinical documentation and communication with clinical health care professionals.
  • constituent parts of medical terms including prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining vowels and combining forms
  • clinical abbreviations and symbols
  • differences between clinical and diagnostic terminology
  • roots, suffixes and prefixes used for:
  • infectious and parasitic diseases
  • neoplasms
  • diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • mental and behavioural disorders
  • diseases of the nervous system
  • diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • diseases of the ear and mastoid process
  • diseases of the circulatory system
  • diseases of the respiratory system
  • diseases of the digestive system
  • diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
  • diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • diseases of the genitourinary system
  • pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium conditions originating in the perinatal period including congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the VU Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Diploma of Clinical Coding
HLT50321 | Diploma | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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