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Workbook for Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician

  • 1st Edition - February 17, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Kimberly Townsend Little
  • Language: English

This workbook reinforces students' understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises, activities, and practice questions. Multiple-choice questions help reinforce content… Read more

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Description

This workbook reinforces students' understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises, activities, and practice questions. Multiple-choice questions help reinforce content from each chapter. Ordered response questions emphasize proper procedure steps. Critical thinking exercises present a case study to help students apply concepts to practice. The practice exam helps students prepare for certification examination. Over 75 checklists - one for every procedure in the text - assist in mastering the skills necessary for safe patient care.

Key features

  • Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook
  • Over 75 procedure checklists allow self-evaluation of skill mastery for safe patient care
  • Wide variety of exercises enhance learning, including multiple-choice and ordered response questions, true/false, short answer, and critical thinking exercises
  • Practice tests allows students to prepare for certification exams

Table of contents

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 and Growth and Developement

8. Comfort, Rest, and Sleep

Unit 3: Safety

9. 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 Patients with Dementia

32. Caring for Patients with Special Needs

33. Caring for of the Patient with a Chronic Condition

34. End-of-Life Care

Skills Checklists
Final Exam

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 21, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

KT

Kimberly Townsend Little

Affiliations and expertise
Former Chair, Graduate Nursing Program, Liberty University, USA