Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides, 7th Edition

by William Leahy, MD, Jetta Fuzy, MS, RN, and Julie Grafe, BSN, RN

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The 7th edition of Hartman Publishing’s bestselling home health aide training textbook, Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides, is here! This student-friendly text prepares home health aides to care for clients holistically, with an emphasis on person-centered care. The home health aide’s role, communication skills, legal requirements, infection prevention techniques, personal care and healthcare skills, and home management fundamentals are explained in everyday language.

Our book includes material on

The role of the home health aide, including scope of practice, communication skills, and legal and ethical considerations
Common diseases and disorders, organized by body system, which were expanded for this edition
Electronic documentation, including an introduction to electronic health records (EHR) and electronic medical records (EMR)
Recognizing and responding to medical emergencies
Infection prevention and control in the home
Foundational care skills, such as giving personal care and measuring vital signs
Home management skills, including keeping the client’s environment clean, understanding nutritional needs, and shopping for and preparing food

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Workbook

for Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides

Because the workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook, it is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. Multiple choice, true/false, crosswords, critical thinking scenarios, and other activities test the student’s knowledge of each chapter. And our workbook’s page count did not increase, nor did we increase workbook pricing for this edition.

Videos

Our skills videos help prepare students for their clinical skills testing. Upon adoption, we provide easy web access for instructors and their students at no extra charge. For more information about Hartman’s new skill videos, please click here.

Instructor’s Guide

for Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides

The instructor’s guide to teaching from our textbook contains the following elements for every chapter: an overview of teaching strategies; page references for the textbook and student workbook; teaching outlines for every learning objective; and critical thinking activities that may include case studies, role-playing scenarios, games, or conversation starters. Appendices include the following: handouts for students to review in class or at home; two sets of multiple choice chapter tests; a final exam; and an answer key for the workbook and the chapter review questions. PowerPoint presentations for each chapter complement the instructor’s guide content.

Our Instructor's Website contains everything included in the print version as well as the following:

PowerPoint presentations
Procedure checklists
Key terms lists
Customer-requested handouts
Additional skills/procedures
Activity worksheets
Critical thinking exams

PowerPoint presentations for each chapter complement the instructor’s guide content and include abbreviated lecture material, student-directed questions, and critical thinking questions related to the procedures.

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Textbook Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60425-168-5	50.00	40.00	37.50	35.00
Workbook ISBN: 978-1-60425-169-2	16.25	13.00	12.19	11.38
Instructor’s Guide ISBN: 978-1-60425-170-8	39.90	19.95 with purchase of 2-99 Text or Workbooks or FREE with purchase of 100+ Text or Workbooks
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