Authors: Diana Dugan RN.
Paperback, 522 pages
Publisher: Hartman Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008-12-01
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    A student-friendly text, the second edition of Successful Nursing Assistant Care by Diana Dugan, RN is a comprehensive textbook to train nursing assistants that teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. This book emphasizes safety, privacy, and respect before and after providing care. Care guidelines are colored for easy reference, and ways to promote residents right's are emphasized. This book contains updated information on HIPAA and CDC guidelines for infection control. Organized around learning objectives, it contains creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, essential information on preventing abuse and neglect, and chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter. This textbook reflects author Diana Dugan's 15 years of experience teaching nursing assistants in community colleges, proprietary schools, and long-term care facilities....

Authors: AST.
Paperback, 472 pages
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2008-02-05
Edition: 3

Reviews :

    This Study Guide is your companion to the Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist, Third Edition textbook. This edition includes more opportunities to practice and demonstrate what you learn as you develop the unique skills that make the surgical technologist integral to the surgical environment....

Authors: Sheila A. Sorrentino RN MSN PhD. Bernie Gorek RNC GNP MA NHA.
Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Mosby
Publication Date: 2003-01-21
Edition: 4

Reviews :

    This popular text provides complete coverage of the knowledge and skills nursing assistants need to work in a long-term care facility. The concise, readable, highly visual format appeals to learners of all levels. The clear, logical presentation of procedures, with hundreds of large, full-color photos and drawings, makes it easy for students to learn and understand. This new edition addresses the expanding role of the nursing assistant in long-term care, providing additional coverage of assisted living, restraint alternatives, transfers, wound care, elderly abuse, and restorative nursing....

Authors: Marilyn T. Fordney. Linda L. French. Joan J. Follis.
Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2007-12-18
Edition: 6

Reviews :

    This Workbook is part of a complete learning package designed for medical assisting and medical office administration students and professionals. Emphasizing the customer service aspect of the medical office, this workbook includes hundreds of practical, hands-on activities, including numerous critical thinking exercises, forms, and more than 120 administrative Job Skill competencies....

Authors: David Paulk. Donna Agnew.
Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 2009-04-24
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Physician Assistant Review Guide is a comprehensive overview for physician assistants preparing for the Physician Assistant National Certifying or Re-certifying exam. This guide extensively covers every topic PAs need to know, including cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology, pediatrics, women's health, and more. Also features a straightforward question format with questions designed for both new graduates and practicing clinicians, as well as test-taking strategies, detailed illustrations and photographs, explanations to the answers with accompanying artwork, and clear connections between the best evidence-based clinical practice and subject matter testing....

Authors: HEALTH PROFESSIONS INST.
Paperback, 566 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Edition: 3

Reviews :

    Teaching users how to transcribe actual medical dictation so that they can develop the selective hearing skills and experience necessary to gain competency as a medical transcriptionist, this guide offers a unique combination of authentic physician dictation by body systems, coordinated readings and exercises by medical specialty, and supplementary information vital to every medical transcriptionist. Supports text with six hours of authentic physical dictation–not synthetic studio recording; all dictations are carefully selected for subject matter, professionally edited to delete confidential identifying information, and then sequenced in a way to promote comprehension and encourage learning. Groups tapes by medical specialty (i.e., dermatology, urology, gastroenterology, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, endocrinology, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, and radiology), with each dictation report offering the best example of its type for vocabulary density, technical content, and other instructional criteria; each report includes chart notes, letters, initial office valuations, consultations, history and physical examinations, discharge summaries, operative reports, emergency department reports, procedure notes, and diagnostic studies from each medical specialty. For anyone in the medical profession who wants to learn basic medical transcription, including medical assistants and legal transcription/court reporters....

Authors: AST.
Hardcover, 1136 pages
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2003-12-23
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    This new edition meets the requirements of the revised Core Curriculum for Surgical Technologists, 5th edition. It is written by surgical technologists for surgical technologists. The content focuses on the concepts and skill development (cognitive and procedural) required of surgical technologists in the operative environment. The text uses the A POSitive CARE approach to surgical problem solving that concentrates on the ability of the surgical technologist to predict the patient’s and surgeon’s needs through the intraoperative period. The goal is for the surgical technologist to apply this model in daily practice for maximum efficiency and effectiveness during the surgical procedure. The surgical procedures included in the text were selected for their instructive value and because the skills demonstrated can be applied to many other procedures....

Authors: Barbara Janson Cohen.
Hardcover, 617 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Edition: Eleventh Edition

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Authors: Tom Palko. Hilda Palko.
Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Edition: 7

Reviews :

   

A trusted resource for passing the Medical Assistant certification exam. Q&A Review for the Medical Assistant by Tom and Hilda Palko now includes: Thousands of practice questions, a CD-ROM with exam simulations to build comfort level and confidence, answers and rationales for all answers to build understanding, a NEW “Basic Anatomy Review”. Students looking to pass the CMA and RMA exams to enter into the Medical Assisting field.

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Authors: Joann C. Rowell. Michelle A. Green.
Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Publication Date: 2001-06-20
Edition: 6th

Reviews :

    (Thomson Learning) Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD. Brandon/Hill Allied Health List selection (#140). Updated to include Internet links in every chapter and revision in nearly every chapter. CD-ROM is a computerized test bank. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover. ...