Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician
- 1st Edition - January 19, 2017
- Latest edition
- Author: Kimberly Townsend Little
- Language: English
Learn to master the wide range of information and skills needed by today’s health care workers with Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Patient Care Technicians. While its compr… Read more
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Learn to master the wide range of information and skills needed by today’s health care workers with Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Patient Care Technicians. While its comprehensive coverage of patient care is appropriate for all types of health care workers, this all-new text is specifically designed to prepare students and professionals for the topics they will face on the Patient Care Technician or the Nursing Assistant certification exams. Coverage includes working within the healthcare team, ethics, laws, communication, understanding patients, culture, patient rights, body structure and function, and growth and development. Procedure units cover safety, infection control, moving and transfers, vital signs, patient assessment, care, comfort, hygiene, and grooming, nutrition and fluids, elimination and respiration skills, and care of the surgical patient. Plus, advanced skills for Patient Care Technicians such as specimen collection, phlebotomy procedures and ECG procedures are also included.
- Over 75 step-by-step procedures cover the information found on the Nursing Assistant and Patient Care Technician certification exams
- Illness and Injury Prevention boxes highlight important safety issues
- Delegation and Documentation boxes emphasize what information is needed from the nurse before the procedure and what information should be reported and recorded after the procedure
- Chapter review questions test understanding of chapter content
- Case scenarios feature realistic clinical situations with questions to help you apply chapter content to actual practice
- Chapter learning objectives and key terms emphasize important chapter information.
- Chapter summaries provide key points to remember
Unit 1: Introduction to Health Care
1. Today’s Health Care
2. The Role of the Patient Care Technician
3. Professionalism and Work Ethics
4. Communicating with the Health Care Team
Unit 2: The Patient
5. Understanding the Patient as a Person
6. Patient Rights, Ethics and Laws
7. Body Structure and Function/Growth and Development
8. Pain Management, Comfort, Rest, and Sleep
Unit 3: Safety
9. Asepsis and Infection Control
10. Workplace Safety and Body Mechanics
11. Patient Safety
12. Moving, Positioning, and Preventing Falls
13. Basic Emergency Care
Unit 4: Patient Assessment
14. Assisting with the Physical Examination
15. Measuring and Recording Vital Signs
16. Obtaining and Monitoring an Electrocardiogram
Unit 5: Patient Care and Comfort
17. Assisting with Admissions and Discharge
18. Bedmaking and Hygiene
19. Assisting With Grooming
20. Assisting With Nutrition and Fluids
21. Assisting With Urinary Elimination
22. Assisting With Bowel Elimination
23. Assisting with Oxygen Needs
Unit 6: Blood and Specimen Collecting and Testing
24. Blood Collecting and Processing
25. Specimen Collecting and Testing
Unit 7: Surgery and Immobility
26. Care of the Surgical Patient
27. Heat and Cold Applications
28. Care of Wounds and Pressure Ulcers
29. Rehabilitative and Restorative Care
Unit 8: Special Care Concerns and Settings
30. Care of Women and Children
31. Caring for the Older Adult
32. Caring for Patients with Mental Health Needs
33. Caring for of the Patients with Chronic Conditions
34. End-of-Life Care
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 19, 2017
- Language: English
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Kimberly Townsend Little
Affiliations and expertise
Former Chair, Graduate Nursing Program, Liberty University, USA