Lippincott's Textbook for Personal Support

This book is a Canadiean adaptation of Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, retaining the book's direct, conversational writing style and emphasis on professionalism and humanism. This adaptation prepares students to work as Personal Support Workers (who may be designated by other titles, depending upon the Province) in long-term, acute, and home health settings. The original text has been adapted to cover the Canadian healthcare system, discuss considerations for caring for native Canadian populations, and present SI units of maasurement. Although each province has a slightly different scope of practice, care has been taken to address the most general, overriding issues of concern to all provinces.

Unit 1 Introduction to Health Care

Chapter 1 The Canadian Health Care System
Chapter 2 The Personal Support Worker
Chapter 3 Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills
Chapter 4 Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 5 Communication Skills
Chapter 6 Those We Care For
Unit 2 Safety
Chapter 7 Communicable Disease and Infection Control
Chapter 8 Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens
Chapter 9 Workplace Safety
Chapter 10 Patient and Resident Safety and Restraints
Chapter 11 Positioning, Lifting, and Transferring Patients and Residents
Chapter 12 Basic First Aid and Emergency Care
Unit 3 Basic Patient and Resident Care
Chapter 13 The Patient or Resident Environment
Chapter 14 Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
Chapter 15 Bedmaking
Chapter 16 Vital Signs, Height, and Weight
Chapter 17 Cleanliness and Hygiene
Chapter 18 Grooming
Chapter 19 Basic Nutrition
Chapter 20 Assisting With Urinary and Bowel Elimination
Unit 4 Death and Dying
Chapter 21 Caring for People Who Are Terminally Ill
Chapter 22 Caring for People Who Are Dying
Unit 5 Structure and Function of the Human Body
Chapter 23 Basic Body Structure and Function
Chapter 24 The Integumentary System
Chapter 25 The Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 26 The Respiratory System
Chapter 27 The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 28 The Nervous System
Chapter 29 The Sensory System
Chapter 30 The Endocrine System
Chapter 31 The Digestive System
Chapter 32 The Urinary System
Chapter 33 The Reproductive System
Unit 6 Special Care Concerns
Chapter 34 Caring for People With Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 35 Caring for People With Mental Illness
Chapter 36 Caring for People With Dementia
Chapter 37 Caring for People With Cancer
Chapter 38 Caring for People With HIV/AIDS
Unit 7 Acute Care
Chapter 39 Caring for Surgical Patients
Chapter 40 Caring for Mothers and Newborns
Chapter 41 Caring for Pediatric Patients
Unit 8 Home Health Care
Chapter 42 Introduction to Home Health Care
Chapter 43 Safety and Infection Control in the Home Health Care Setting
Appendix A Answers to the What Did You Learn? Exercises

Appendix B Introduction to the Language of Health Care

Glossary

Index

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Lippincott's Textbook for Personal Support Workers A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving

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