cover image - Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician - Elsevier eBook on VST, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323445818
Copyright: 2018
Publication Date: 03-09-2017
Page Count: 1088
Imprint: Mosby
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Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician - Elsevier eBook on VST, 1st Edition

by Kimberly Townsend Little, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, CNE

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cover image - Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician - Elsevier eBook on VST, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323445818
Copyright: 2018
Publication Date: 03-09-2017
Page Count: 1088
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $96.99
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Learn to master the wide range of information and skills needed by today’s health care workers with Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Patient Care Technicians. While its comprehensive coverage of patient care is appropriate for all types of health care workers, this all-new text is specifically designed to prepare students and professionals for the topics they will face on the Patient Care Technician or the Nursing Assistant certification exams. Coverage includes working within the healthcare team, ethics, laws, communication, understanding patients, culture, patient rights, body structure and function, and growth and development. Procedure units cover safety, infection control, moving and transfers, vital signs, patient assessment, care, comfort, hygiene, and grooming, nutrition and fluids, elimination and respiration skills, and care of the surgical patient. Plus, advanced skills for Patient Care Technicians such as specimen collection, phlebotomy procedures and ECG procedures are also included.

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Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician - Elsevier eBook on VST, 2nd Edition
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Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician - Elsevier eBook on VST

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    • Over 75 step-by-step procedures cover the information found on the Nursing Assistant and Patient Care Technician certification exams
    • Illness and Injury Prevention boxes highlight important safety issues
    • Delegation and Documentation boxes emphasize what information is needed from the nurse before the procedure and what information should be reported and recorded after the procedure
    • Chapter review questions test understanding of chapter content
    • Case scenarios feature realistic clinical situations with questions to help you apply chapter content to actual practice
    • Chapter learning objectives and key terms emphasize important chapter information.
    • Chapter summaries provide key points to remember
  • Unit 1: Introduction to Health Care
    1.     Today’s Health Care
    2. The Role of the Patient Care Technician
    3. Professionalism and Work Ethics
    4. Communicating with the Health Care Team

    Unit 2: The Patient
    5. Understanding the Patient as a Person
    6. Patient Rights, Ethics and Laws
    7. Body Structure and Function/Growth and Development
    8. Pain Management, Comfort, Rest, and Sleep

    Unit 3: Safety
    9. Asepsis and Infection Control
    10. Workplace Safety and Body Mechanics
    11. Patient Safety
    12. Moving, Positioning, and Preventing Falls
    13. Basic Emergency Care

    Unit 4: Patient Assessment
    14. Assisting with the Physical Examination
    15. Measuring and Recording Vital Signs
    16. Obtaining and Monitoring an Electrocardiogram

    Unit 5: Patient Care and Comfort
    17. Assisting with Admissions and Discharge
    18. Bedmaking and Hygiene
    19. Assisting With Grooming
    20. Assisting With Nutrition and Fluids
    21. Assisting With Urinary Elimination
    22. Assisting With Bowel Elimination
    23. Assisting with Oxygen Needs

    Unit 6: Blood and Specimen Collecting and Testing
    24. Blood Collecting and Processing
    25. Specimen Collecting and Testing

    Unit 7: Surgery and Immobility
    26. Care of the Surgical Patient
    27. Heat and Cold Applications
    28. Care of Wounds and Pressure Ulcers
    29. Rehabilitative and Restorative Care

    Unit 8: Special Care Concerns and Settings
    30. Care of Women and Children
    31. Caring for the Older Adult
    32. Caring for Patients with Mental Health Needs
    33. Caring for of the Patients with Chronic Conditions
    34. End-of-Life Care
  • Kimberly Townsend Little, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, CNE, Former Chair, Graduate Nursing Program, Liberty University, USA
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