cover image - Workbook for Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323084390
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-04-2012
Page Count: 264
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $36.99

Workbook for Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition

by Joan M. Birchenall, RN, MEd and Eileen Streight, RN, BSN

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cover image - Workbook for Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323084390
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-04-2012
Page Count: 264
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $36.99
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Corresponding to the chapters in Mosby’s Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition, this practical workbook helps students review the knowledge required by home care aides and practice the skills they will perform as a home care aide with fun activities, and skills competency checklists. Written by home care experts Joan Birchenall and Eileen Streight, this study tool prepares students for the many situations they may encounter as a home care aide.

    • UPDATED content matches the latest information in Mosby’s Textbook for the Home Care Aide.
    • NEW! 93 Skills Competency Checklists are now available on the Evolve companion website.
    • Brief Situations in selected workbook chapters help students apply the knowledge they have gained.
    • Creative activities make studying fun with games such as crossword puzzles, word-finds, word completions, interpretation of images, and identifying incorrect items in images.
    • Activities including matching, completion, and true/false help students understand and remember the material.
    • Answers are provided for all questions.
    • UPDATED content matches the latest information in Mosby’s Textbook for the Home Care Aide.
    • NEW Evolve companion website includes an audio glossary and skills competency checklists.

  • QUESTIONS
    PART 1: Orientation to Home Care
    1. Learning about Home Care
    2. The Home Care Industry
    3. Developing Effective Communication Skills
    4. Understanding Your Client’s Needs
    5. Understanding How the Body Works
    6. Observing, Reporting, Recording
    7. Working With the Ill and Disabled
    PART 2: Managing the Home Environment
    8. Maintaining a Safe Environment
    9. Maintaining a Healthy Environment
    10. Meeting the Client’s Nutritional Needs
    PART 3: Home Care Procedures
    11. Preventing Infection/Medical Asepsis
    12. Body Mechanics
    13. Bedmaking
    14. Personal Care
    15. Elimination
    16. Collecting Specimens 
    17. Measuring Vital Signs
    18. Special Procedures
    PART 4: Meeting The Client’s Special Needs
    19. Caring for Older Adults
    20. Caring for Mothers, Infants, and Children
    21. Caring for Clients with Mental Illness
    22. Caring for Clients with Illnesses Requiring Home Care
    23. Caring for the Dying Client
    24. Emergencies
    PART 5: Professional Skills
    25. Getting a Job and Keeping It

    ANSWERS
    PART 1: Orientation to Home Care
    1. Learning about Home Care
    2. The Home Care Industry
    3. Developing Effective Communication Skills
    4. Understanding Your Client’s Needs
    5. Understanding How the Body Works
    6. Observing, Reporting, Recording
    7. Working With the Ill and Disabled
    PART 2: Managing the Home Environment
    8. Maintaining A Safe Environment
    9. Maintaining a Healthy Environment
    10. Meeting the Client’s Nutritional Needs
    PART 3: Home Care Procedures
    11. Preventing Infection/Medical Asepsis
    12. Body Mechanics
    13. Bedmaking
    14. Personal Care
    15. Elimination
    16. Collecting Specimens 
    17. Measuring Vital Signs
    18. Special Procedures
    PART 4: Meeting The Client’s Special Needs
    19. Caring for Older Adults
    20. Caring for Mothers, Infants, and Children
    21. Caring for Clients with Mental Illness
    22. Caring for Clients with Illnesses Requiring Home Care
    23. Caring for the Dying Client
    24. Emergencies
    PART 5: Professional Skills
    25. Getting a Job and Keeping It
    SKILLS COMPETENCY CHECKLISTS
    SKILLS COMPETENCY CHECKLISTS RECORD

  • Joan M. Birchenall, RN, MEd, Trenton, NJ and Eileen Streight, RN, BSN, Hamilton, NJ
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