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050 | _aRA 645.35 .B57 2013 | ||
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_aBirchenall, Joan. _eauthor |
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_aMosby's textbook for the home care aide / _cJoan Birchenall and Eileen Streight. |
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250 | _aThird edition. | ||
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_aSt. Louis, Missouri : _bElsevier, Mosby, _cc2013 |
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_axviii, 516 pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c28 cm. |
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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. | ||
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