Mosby's textbook for the home care aide / Joan Birchenall and Eileen Streight.

Includes index.

Learning about home care -- The home care industry -- Developing effective communication skills -- Understanding your client's needs -- Understanding how the body works -- Observing, reporting, and recording -- Working with ill and disabled clients -- Maintaining a safe environment -- Maintaining a healthy environment -- Meeting the client's nutritional needs -- Preventing infection/medical asepsis -- Body mechanics -- Bedmaking -- Personal care -- Elimination -- Collecting specimens -- Measuring vital signs -- Special procedures -- Caring for older adults -- Caring for mothers, infants, and children -- Caring for clients with mental illness -- Caring for clients with illnesses requiring home care -- Caring for the client at the end of life -- Emergencies -- Getting a job and keeping it.

Covering the essential content and procedures a home care aide needs to know, Mosby’s Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition prepares you for success in this rapidly growing field. A clear approach makes the book easy to use and understand, featuring hundreds of full-color photographs and drawings along with step-by-step procedures for skills performed by home care aides. Updated and expanded in this edition are chapters on meeting the client’s nutritional needs and on getting and keeping a job. Written by home care experts Joan Birchenall and Eileen Streight, this textbook prepares you for the many types of situations you may encounter as a home care aide.