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Paralegal / Legal Assistant
The Paralegal / Legal Assistant credential documents the essential competencies the numerous tasks required of paralegals and legal assistants in their assistance to and support of legal professionals.  Paralegals and legal assistants assist and support lawyers by maintaining and organizing documents and files, conducting legal research, and drafting documents for the attorney’s review. They must understand how to perform the various tasks including how to maintain confidentiality for clients and adhere to ethical standards. They must also fully understand the U.S. court systems, the criminal process and civil litigation, the civil legal process, and administrative law depending upon the type of law cases involved.  This credential is appropriate for a paralegals and legal assistants as well as legal secretaries and administrative assistants working in law offices or law departments of businesses and corporations.  Workplace Tasks for this area include the following: • Paralegals and legal assistants investigate the facts of a case.
• Paralegals and legal assistants conduct research on relevant laws, regulations, and legal articles.
• Paralegals and legal assistants organize and maintain documents 
• Paralegals and legal assistants gather and organize evidence, legal documents, and other materials for the attorney in preparation for a case.
• Paralegals and legal assistants write reports for lawyers in preparation for a trial.
• Paralegals and legal assistants write correspondence and legal documents for attorney review.
• Paralegals and legal assistants obtain affidavits and other formal statements that are used in court.
• Paralegals and legal assistants assist attorneys during a trial by handling exhibits, taking notes, and review the trial transcripts.
• Paralegals and legal assistants assist attorneys in organizing billing to clients and client trust accounts. 
• Paralegals and legal assistants file exhibits, briefs, appeals, and other legal documents with the court and opposing counsel. 
• Paralegals and legal assistants call clients, witnesses, lawyers, and outside vendors to schedule meetings, interviews, and depositions
 

Problem Lists, Results Management, and Trending

The EHR provides many benefits. This resource discusses the use of Problem Lists, Results Management, and Trending features of the EHR and identifies how they are important tools for the physician in following patient problems, orders, medications, and disease progression or improvement.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Create a graph of lab results and vital signs in the chart
  • View pending orders and lab test results
  • Use Problem Lists
  • Use Patient Management
Data Entry Using Flow Sheets and Anatomical Drawings

When patients have an ongoing health problem or chronic disease, it is useful for the clinician to compare the health data in the record from past patient visits. This is quickly and easily done using Flow Sheets. This resource discusses how Flow Sheets are used and how clinicians can quickly enter data during a patient encounter by updating similar data from a previous encounter. Additionally, clinicians often find it useful to be able to annotate an anatomical drawing of a body region to be clearer in describing the location of findings, such as dermatological conditions.

This resource discusses how to invoke anatomical drawings and annotate them using a variety of drawing tools.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Use an EHR drawing tool to annotate drawings in an encounter
  • Create a Problem-Based flow sheet
  • Create a Form-Based flow sheet
  • Work with flow sheets in the EHR system
Fundamentals of Information Systems and Healthcare Records

Although a health information professional deals mainly with the information in the healthcare system, it is important to understand a fair amount about computer systems, including hardware, software, and electronic communications, and how they support the exchange of data electronically. You must become competent in many aspects of technology in order to use it efficiently and effectively.

This resource reviews the computer technology that is the foundation of the electronic health record. Additionally, it provides an overview of the health record itself.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Describe the various forms of telemedicine
  • Discuss the functions of healthcare records
  • Explain the fundamental concepts of computers and computer networks
Pharmacy: The Cardiovascular, Circulatory, and Lymph Systems

Pharmaceuticals interact with the various body systems in interesting ways. Understanding the relationship between pharmaceuticals and the body is essential to ensure patient health. The cardiovascular system alongside the circulatory and lymph systems are affected tremendously by various medications and treatments. As a center point for these systems, heart health is something we all pay attention to.

For healthcare professionals, the ability to recognize diseases and disorders of these systems is imperative. Coronary artery disease, heart failure, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are just some of the conditions that can affect the functioning of these systems but also conditions that can respond particularly well to drug treatments. Proper treatment will always depend on severity, however, which is why it is imperative for health professionals to recognize these conditions and understand how to best to respond, particularly as these conditions are often presented in emergency circumstances.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Diagram the basic anatomical structure and parts of the heart
  • Explain the function of the heart and the circulation of the blood within the body
  • Describe common diseases affecting the heart including the causes, symptoms, and pharmaceutical treatments associated with each disease
  • Describe the mechanism of action of anticoagulants, indications for their use, and antidotes of overdose
  • Differentiate between HDL, LDL, and triglycerides
  • List the total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglyceride ranges for an average adult
  • Describe the structure and main functions of the lymphatic system, as well as its relationship to the cardiovascular system