Lippincott's Textbook for Personal Support Workers: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving
by Marilyn McGreer and Pamela J Carter
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | November 2010 | ISBN-10: 1608311708 | PDF | 944 pages | 33.1 mb

This book is a Canadian 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 measurement. 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.

CONTENTS
Unit 1 Introduction to Health Care 1
Unit 2 Safety 101
Unit 3 Basic Patient and Resident Care 233
Unit 4 Death and Dying 433
Unit 5 Structure and Function of the Human Body 463
Unit 6 Special Care Concerns 677
Unit 7 Acute Care 739
Unit 8 Home Health Care 789
Glossary 815
Appendix AAnswers to the What Did You
Learn? Exercises 835
Appendix BIntroduction to the Language of Health Care 837
Index 849