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050 _aRA 645.35 .B57 2013
100 _aBirchenall, Joan.
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245 0 _aMosby's textbook for the home care aide /
_cJoan Birchenall and Eileen Streight.
250 _aThird edition.
260 _aSt. Louis, Missouri :
_bElsevier, Mosby,
_cc2013
300 _axviii, 516 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c28 cm.
365 _bPHP3477
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _aLearning 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.
520 _aCovering 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.
650 _aHOME CARE SERVICES
700 _aStreight, Eileen
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