Download or read book From Nursing Assistant to Patient Care Technician written by Donna J. Brust and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic text addresses the expanding, multi-skilled role of the unlicensed caregiver in today's medical environment. In a framework that teaches the "why" behind the "how", information is presented relating to patient-focused care and customer service, successful strategies for working as part of a team, the relationship of body systems to illness, and key patient observations to report to an RN. Emphasis is placed on the safe and effective use of technology in patient care, assisting with sterile procedures, the role of the unlicensed caregiver in emergencies, and strategies for organizing care. Other topics covered include attending to cancer patients, understanding body image changes, cross-training for the position of unit clerical coordinator, performing ECGs, and drawing blood for laboratory tests.

Download or read book Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician E Book written by Kimberly Townsend Little and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the skills you need to succeed as a patient care technician! Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician, 2nd Edition provides a solid foundation in healthcare principles and in the procedures performed by PCTs and other health professionals. Coverage of skills includes patient hygiene, infection control, taking vital signs, moving and positioning of patients, blood and specimen collecting and testing, ECG placement and monitoring, care of the surgical patient, care of older adults, and more. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you learn each procedure, and may also be used as skills checklists. Written by nursing educator Kimberly Townsend Little, this text prepares students for success on Patient Care Technician or Nursing Assistant Certification exams. More than 100 step-by-step skills and procedures cover the information found on the Nursing Assistant and Patient Care Technician certification exams. Practice Scenarios present realistic case studies with questions to help you practice critical thinking and apply concepts to the practice setting. Delegation and Documentation boxes cover the information needed from the nurse before a procedure and what information should be recorded after the procedure. Illness and Injury Prevention boxes highlight important safety issues. Chapter review questions test your understanding of important content. Chapter summaries emphasize key points to remember. Chapter objectives and key terms outline the important concepts and essential terminology in each chapter. NEW! A chapter on medication administration is added to this edition. NEW! New content is included on NG and gastric tubes, oral suctioning, incentive spirometry, use of a bladder scanner, and inserting peripheral IVs. NEW! Updated guidelines include CPR and dietary guidelines.

Download or read book Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician written by Kimberly Townsend and published by Mosby. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Workbook for Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician written by Kimberly Townsend and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hartman s Complete Guide for the Phlebotomy Technician written by Hartman Publishing Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician Elsevier eBook on VST Retail Access Card written by Kimberly Townsend Little and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approx. 684 pages More than 100 step-by-step skills and procedures cover the information found on the Nursing Assistant and Patient Care Technician certification exams. Practice Scenarios present realistic case studies with questions to help you practice critical thinking and apply concepts to the practice setting. Delegation and Documentation boxes cover the information needed from the nurse before a procedure and what information should be recorded after the procedure. Illness and Injury Prevention boxes highlight important safety issues. Chapter review questions test your understanding of important content. Chapter summaries emphasize key points to remember. Chapter objectives and key terms outline the important concepts and essential terminology in each chapter. NEW! A chapter on medication administration is added to this edition. NEW! New content is included on NG and gastric tubes, oral suctioning, incentive spirometry, use of a bladder scanner, and inserting peripheral IVs. NEW! Updated guidelines include CPR and dietary guidelines.

Download or read book Assisting with Patient Care written by Sheila A. Sorrentino and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisting with Patient Care addresses the expanded role of the Patient Care Technician (PCT) or Multi-Skilled Worker (MSW), covering all of the basic concepts and skills needed by nursing assistants, as well as the more advanced skills required by PCTs or MSWs. This comprehensive text is visually appealing, with its full-color design and abundance of photos and drawings. Its engaging writing style and 7th-grade reading level make it a favorite of students at all levels. Five new chapters and eight new procedures provide more comprehensive information on the nursing process, restraints, specimens, hearing and vision problems, and developmental disabilities. Covers both basic nursing assistant roles and advanced skills for the patient care technician/multi-skilled worker. Clear, 7th-grade reading level. Step-by-step procedures detail skills and are divided into pre-, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning. Quality of Life sections in the procedures remind students to show respect for the person by performing simple courtesies such as knocking before entering the room, calling the person by name, and introducing self by name and title. Caring about Culture boxes provide information to help students learn how to address various practices of specific cultures. Delegation is discussed regarding the assistive personnel's responsibilities in accepting and performing assigned tasks. Hundreds of large, full-color photos and drawings provide visual reinforcement of concepts and skills. Learning Objectives for each chapter help students focus on information presented. Key Terms with definitions help students understand chapter content. Boxes and tables present material in concise, easy-to-locate format Chapter Review Questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter. UNIQUE! Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM, bound in the text, includes 25 procedures with corresponding video clips & exercises, an audio glossary, and Body Spectrum - an electronic anatomy coloring book. New Safety Alerts provide cautions and proper techniques for protecting both staff and patients. New Delegation Guidelines detail the assistive personnel's (AP) responsibilities when accepting specific delegated tasks. Focus On... boxes address the special needs of children, older persons, long-term care residents, and home care patients. Icons in section headings alert students to associated procedure. Five new chapters on Assisting With the Nursing Process, Restraint Alternatives and Safe Restraint Use, Collecting and Testing Specimens, Hearing and Vision Problems, and Developmental Disabilities provide expanded content grouped in logical, concise chapters. Eight new procedures include Double Bagging, Transferring the Person from the Chair or Wheelchair to Bed, Transferring a Person to and from the Toilet, Changing a Leg Bag to a Drainage Bag, Preparing the Person for Meals, Measuring Height: The Person in Bed, Applying a Hot Pack, and Caring for Eyeglasses. Highlights skills to alert students to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAPTM).

Download or read book Assisting with Patient Care written by Bernie Gorek and published by Mosby. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook includes a wide variety of exercises to enhance learning and hold students' interest. Checklists for the textbook procedures allow for instructor or self-evaluation. Additional Learning Activities provide exercises that go beyond the classroom.

Download or read book Nursing Assistant Care written by Susan Alvare and published by Hartman Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 6,000 instructors shared their ideas for the perfect nursing assistant textbook. Nursing Assistant Care is exactly what you asked for: a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains: beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed chapters organized around learning objectives and written at a low reading level creative methods to teach care and observations, promoting independence, and essential information on preventing abuse and neglect chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking and tests the chapter illnesses and common conditions in one chapter, organized by body system an entire chapter on confusion, dementia, and Alzheimer?s disease up-to-date CPR and emergency care sections a full chapter on mental health and mental illness information on developmental disabilities personal care skills housed within one chapter, as are nursing skills separate chapters for bowel and urinary elimination

Download or read book Skills for the Patient Care Technician written by Susan King Strasinger and published by F A Davis Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Skills for the Patient Care Technician show you how to position yourself for a successful career in the healthcare delivery system. This unique text provides entry-level healthcare workers with a comprehensive tool to become multiskilled. All areas are covered - phlebotomy; the medical laboratory; ECGs; and respiratory basic radiography and basic nursing skills. Also included is an introduction to the healthcare delivery system, and coverage of safety, infection control, and quality assurance.

Download or read book Being a Nursing Assistant written by Francie Wolgin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its ninth edition, this market-leading book continues to prepare the nation's finest nursing assistants in the deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare. To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that illustrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW - Guidelines and Procedures-including Waterless Hand Hygiene and Applying a Condom Catheter. NEW! Rationales for all procedures that help students to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW! Topics such as SARS precautions and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease. NEW! Charting examples in each procedure that reinforce the importance of documentation. NEW! Tear-Out English-Spanish Clinical Pocket Reference that provides translations of commonly encountered words and phrases to aide in client care. Expanded coverage of infection control and patient restraints. FREE Companion Website provides chapter-specific online resources for both students and instructors including certification review multiple choice questions, case studies, matching exercises, weblinks, a Syllabus Manager, an audio glossary and more. FREE Student CD-ROM provides certification review multiple choice questions and an audio glossary. Nursing assistants in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings as well as those studying to enter into the field.

Download or read book Restorative Care Textbook Theory and Practical Fundamentals written by Opret Education www.opreteducation.com and published by Opret Education www.OpretEducation.com. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restorative Care Textbook: Theory and Practical Fundamentals ISBN: 978-1-944471-80-4 Interior: Color Edition: Series I Published: 2017-2018 Pages: 295 pages Size: 11 x 8.5 Population: Trade School, Colleges, High Schools, Training Centers, etc. Subject: Allied Healthcare, etc. Restorative Care Textbook The restorative care textbook consist of contents such as introduction to patient care, infection control and legal issues in healthcare, Introduction to human anatomy and medical terminology, physical assessment and examination, patient mobility and range of motion, therapeutic exercise and patient positioning, assistive devices and gait, orthotics and prosthetics, patient transfer techniques and wheelchair management, wound care and various special topics such as draping techniques, ostomy care, nutrition and meal etc. Apart from the above mentioned content, the book has over 50 clinical skills for patient care technicians. This book also features 3 practice exams; each practice exam has 100 questions. The student will have 300 questions to solve at the end of the book, plus there is an end of chapter review questions as well, which can be completed by the student after every chapter. This book may be adopted by schools that are already offering the restorative aide course or restorative aide program, restorative care course or restorative care program, or restorative assistant course or restorative assistant program or plan to offer any such program in future. The key component of the textbook is an easy to understand language that can be understood by the candidate while reading the content of the textbook. This will make the concepts of the book much more understandable. The book also features various pictures and illustrations to make the concepts of learning easy. This book may also assist in preparation for restorative care assistant certification exam. This textbook may also be used for the preparation of the Restorative Care Certification Exam to become certified restorative care assistant

Download or read book Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants written by Pamela Carter and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 5th Edition Pamela J. Carter, RN, BSN, MEd, CNOR Deliver compassionate, competent care in any healthcare setting. Written in a conversational, easy-to-read style and rich with dynamic images and illustrations, this comprehensive text helps you master the technical, communication, and critical thinking skills essential to your success as a nursing assistant. Up-to-date coverage reflects the latest clinical approaches, and a practical format guides you through the decision-making process behind safe, fulfilling patient outcomes. NEW! Taking It to the Next Level: Advanced Skills calls-out skills in the text that may require additional training as you advance your career and are further explained in Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants eBook. Updated content keeps you current with the latest state-specific guidelines and 2016 NNAAP skill revisions. Guidelines (“What You Do/Why You Do It”) boxes detail the how and why behind key nursing assistant actions. Tell the Nurse! Notes summarize observations that you need to report to the nurse. Stop and Think! Scenarios offer practice for solving the types of complex, real-world nursing situations you’ll encounter on the job. Helping Hands and a Caring Heart: Focus on Humanistic Health Care boxes help you empathize with those in your care and meet patients’ and residents’ emotional and spiritual needs, as well as their physical needs. Empowering online learning tools reinforce key terms and content with engaging Watch and Learn/Listen and Learn Audio and Video Clips and an interactive audio glossary. Procedures highlight important privacy, safety, infection control, and comfort concepts and guide you step by step through essential nursing assistant tasks. Chapter-ending summary sections enhance your retention and understanding at a glance. What Did You Learn? multiple-choice and matching exercises with answers help you assess your understanding of essential information and prepare for state certification exams. Nursing Assistants Make A Difference! sections highlight your critical role on the healthcare team with first-person accounts of the nursing assistant’s positive impact on the lives of others. Empowering online learning tools reinforce key terms and content with engaging Watch and Learn/Listen and Learn Audio and Video Clips and an interactive audio glossary is available at thePoint.lww.com/Carter5e.

Download or read book Lippincott s Textbook for Nursing Assistants written by Pamela J. Carter and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook for nursing assistants will prepare students not only to function in the traditional nursing assistant role in nursing homes, hospitals, and home health, but also will prepare students to advance their careers. A nursing assistant student who uses this text will have a firm foundation by which to transition to an LPN and ultimately an RN role. The text offers a compelling art program, a direct, conversational writing style, and an emphasis on professionalism and humanism. A back-of-book CD-ROM includes an audio glossary.

Download or read book Workbook for Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician E Book written by Kimberly Townsend Little and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW exercises cover the textbook’s new chapter on medication administration. NEW review content is included on NG and gastric tubes, oral suctioning, incentive spirometry, use of a bladder scanner, and inserting peripheral IVs.

Download or read book Hartman s Nursing Assistant Care Long Term Care written by Susan Alvare Hedman and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive nursing assistant training textbook which includes information on long-term care, multiple chapters on home health care, and material on subacute and acute care. In addition it includes in-depth information on resident and client rights with sidebars that teach ways to promote independence and prevent abuse and neglect; a discussion of culture change; infection prevention; anatomy and physiology with an emphasis on normal changes of aging; updated nutrition information on MyPyramid, special diets, and feeding techniques; current information on legal issues, such as HIPAA and the Patient Self-Determination Act; 7 chapters on home health care, including information on medications, safety, infection prevention, mothers & newborns, and meal planning and preparation; a chapter containing subacute and acute care information, including pre- and post-operative care, as well as mechanical ventilation, chest tubes, and artificial airways.

Download or read book Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants written by Pamela J. Carter and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 1999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current, comprehensive, and written in a conversational, easy-to-read style, Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition, makes essential skills approachable and prepares students to deliver confident, compassionate care throughout their healthcare careers. This updated, streamlined 6th edition distills the must-know information students need for success as nursing assistants with a human-centered perspective, and guides students through the clinical decision-making process behind safe, effective clinical outcomes across today’s healthcare landscape.