Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides

The second edition of Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides, the accompanying workbook, and the instructor's guide are now available!

This book will help your aides master what they need to know to provide excellent, compassionate care to clients with very different needs.
This book is organized around learning objectives with colored tabs for easy location of material.

The second edition contains new and/or updated information on:

HIPPA and protecting a client's privacy
MRSA and VRE
Care for the client with COPD
Cultural sensitivity
Hip replacement care
Mercury-free thermometers
Disinfection and sterilization
NEW two-step procedure for taking blood pressure We also condensed and made the anatomy and physiology chapter more basic, added chapter review questions, and updated the design and many of the illustrations.