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050 _aRA 645.3 .B57 2003
100 _aBirchenall, Joan M.
_eauthor
245 0 _aMosby's textbook for the home care aide /
_cJoan Birchenall and Eileen Streight.
250 _a2nd edition.
260 _aSt. Louis, Missouri :
_bMosby Elsevier,
_cc2003
300 _axx, 555 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c28 cm.
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _apt. 1: Orientation to home care -- 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 the ill and disabled -- pt. 2: Managing the home environment -- Maintaining a safe environment -- Maintaining a healthy environment -- Meeting the client's nutritional needs -- pt. 3: Home care procedures -- Preventing infection/medical asepsis -- Body mechanics -- Bedmaking -- Personal care -- Elimination -- Collecting specimens -- Measuring vital signs -- Special procedures -- pt. 4: Meeting the client's special needs -- Caring for older adults -- Caring for mothers, infants, and children -- Caring for clients with mental illness -- Caring for clients with illness requiring home care -- Caring for the dying client -- Emergencies -- pt. 5: Professional skills -- Getting a job and keeping it.
520 _aProviding the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to becoming a home care aide, this engaging text features a colorful design, a clear writing style, and an abundant use of photos, drawings, boxes, and tables. An ideal learning tool, this new edition introduces scenarios with a cast of four aides and a supervisor to help bring the text to life and to provide realistic examples of what the student can expect to encounter in practice. Preparing students to become valuable members of the home care team, this practical text highlights key considerations and reminders, as well as what to observe, report, and record.
650 _aHOME HEALTH AIDES
700 _aStreight, Eileen
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