Mastering Patient Care Skills: A Comprehensive Guide

By Crystal Johansson, Charity; Chinworth, Susan A.; Ramsey

Maximize Patient Care Skills

Mastering patient care skills is a state-of-the-art, multimedia resource designed to help you navigate confidently in both common and complex clinical situations. This guide will ground you in fundamental rehabilitation principles, help you establish a culture of patient-centered care, and develop essential clinical problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. You’ll also learn how to help your patients progress toward greater mobility and independence.

Updated & Expanded!

This guide incorporates current research and today’s best evidence-based practices, including:

• Levels of Assistance as defined by the Comprehensive Assessment Reporting Evaluation (CARE) tool
• Edema Assessment Methods
• Expanded Application of Biomechanics Principles to body mechanics for patients and clinicians
• Intervention Boxes
• More Emphasis on Clinical Reasoning with a new decision-making algorithm to guide the clinician’s choice of mechanical and manual transfer methods
• More Emphasis on Diversity and distinguishing between recovery and compensation
• More Information on Neurological Conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and spinal cord injury and how they relate to mobility concepts as well as the use of a wheelchair as a primary means of locomotion

Narrated Video Clips

Narrated video clips with closed captioning online at FADavis.com demonstrate must-know techniques.

A Focus on Foundational Knowledge

This guide focuses on developing the foundational knowledge, clinical expertise, and problem-solving skills required to work safely and effectively in both common and unexpected patient situations.

Organizational Structure

The organizational structure parallels the progression of patient intervention.

Important Concepts and Care Skills

Icons throughout the text highlight important concepts and care skills.

Watch Out! Keeping Current, and Clinical Tips

Watch Out! Keeping Current, and Clinical Tips boxes cover important safety reminders, recent research, and pointers for effectiveness and efficiency in the clinic.

Additional Learning Enhancements

Try This, Clinical Reality Check, Thinking It Through, and Pathophysiology boxes provide additional learning enhancements.

A Wealth of Clinical Examples

A wealth of clinical examples mirror today’s patient populations.

Product Details

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company

Edition: Third edition (February 11, 2022)

Language: English

Format: Spiral-bound

Pages: 608

ISBN-10: 1719642869

ISBN-13: 978-1719642866