Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide

By Joan Birchenall and Joan M. Birchenall RN MEd

Book Overview

576 pagesAn attractive, full color design and a spacious, logical layout make the text easy to follow.Hundreds of full color photos and drawings visually present key ideas and clearly demonstrate procedure steps.Objectives and Key Terms help students focus on essential information to better prepare them to understand each chapter's content.Scenarios provide realistic examples of the types of situations that aides are likely to encounter in the home care environment.Procedures provide step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions on performing important skills and tasks.Chapter summaries help students review key points presented in the chapter.Highlighted information on observing, recording, and reporting stresses the importance of these responsibilities.Key considerations and reminders are highlighted to emphasize their importance in proper job performance.A Cast of Characters, including a supervisor and four home care aides, is introduced and used in scenarios throughout the text, providing realistic and engaging examples of what to expect in practice.A new chapter, Learning About Home Care, introduces students to the subject and helps prepare them for what they can expect from their home care aide program.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323016561
• ISBN13: 9780323016568
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book about a little known area of health care

Home Health Care Aides are the unsung stewards of the nursing community. The go into people's homes and perform duties that allow the caregiver to catch a breath take time out for themselves. This book covers the duties that home health care aide books perform. It intermixes training information with actual case stories by home helath care aides themselves. As my teacher told me when I was taking my home health care class, if you can answere the questions at the back of the book you can pass the class.