Master Patient Care with Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Patient Care Technicians

Written by Kimberly Townsend Little PhD RN WHNP-BC CNE, this comprehensive textbook is designed to prepare students and professionals for the Patient Care Technician or Nursing Assistant certification exams. With a focus on mastering the wide range of information and skills needed by today’s healthcare workers, this all-new text covers essential topics in patient care.

Comprehensive Coverage of Patient Care

This textbook covers a broad range of topics, including:

• Working within the healthcare team
• Ethics and laws in healthcare
• Effective communication with patients
• Understanding patient culture and rights
• Body structure and function, and growth and development

Procedure Units for Patient Care Technicians

The textbook includes detailed procedure units on essential skills for patient care, such as:

• Safety and infection control
• Moving and transferring patients
• Taking vital signs and patient assessment
• Patient care, comfort, and hygiene
• Nutrition and fluid management
• Elimination and respiration skills
• Care of the surgical patient

In addition, the textbook covers advanced skills for Patient Care Technicians, including:

• Specimen collection and phlebotomy procedures
• ECG procedures

Learning Tools and Resources

This comprehensive textbook includes a range of learning tools and resources to help students and professionals master patient care, including:

• Over 75 step-by-step procedures to help students prepare for certification exams
• Illness and Injury Prevention boxes to highlight important safety issues
• Delegation and Documentation boxes to emphasize key information and reporting requirements
• Chapter review questions to test understanding of chapter content
• Case scenarios with realistic clinical situations and questions to apply chapter content to actual practice
• Chapter learning objectives and key terms to emphasize important chapter information
• Chapter summaries to provide key points to remember

Publisher: Mosby; 1st edition (February 23, 2017). Language: English. Paperback: 1088 pages. ISBN-10: 0323430139. ISBN-13: 978-0323430135.