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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.
Unit 1: Introduction to Health Care
Unit 2: The Patient
Unit 3: Safety
Unit 4: Patient Assessment
Unit 5: Patient Care and Comfort
Unit 6: Blood and Specimen Collecting and Testing
Unit 7: Surgery and Immobility
Unit 8: Special Care Concerns and Settings
Glossary
Index
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