Created as a reference for the home care aide as he or she cares for the client. Designed for quick reviews. can be used for plannning care and ensuring that all points are covered.

Pocket Guide for the Home Care Aide is the perfect everyday reference when working with patients in their homes. It facilitates the unique needs of the home care aide as an integral part of the home care organization and serves as a comprehensive, daily resource.This handy pocket guide provides an overview of the essential elements of orientation for the home health aide, as well as self assessment and development tools. It provides procedures for basic home health aide skills and gives information about the most common home health diagnoses.

Updated and expanded to reflect the issues and situations encountered by today's home health aide, this book guides users through all vital aspects of their jobs in a simple, focused manner and teaches them to be efficient, caring members of the health-care team. It encourages critical thinking, situational and reality-based decision making. Written in a conversational style, it covers everything from the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology to corporate compliance, ethnic diversity, patient satisfaction, palliative care, and makes strategic use of easy-to-follow narratives, step-by-step procedures, margin glossary, and many concept-supporting illustrations and photographs throughout with examples from real life situations. Ideal as both a primary learning tool for beginning aides as well as a handy refresher and reference for more experienced workers.

This pocket handbook is a valuable resource for practicing home health aides. It is designed as a reference to provide essential information to assist in caring for clients in the home, assisted living arrangements, and group homes. It is also a useful tool in helping the learner transition from the classroom setting to practice. Use it to refresh your memory for client care procedures. In your busy day, this handbook will help you provide quality care to clients.

The Home Health Aide Handbook is unlike any other handbook or pocket guide on the market. Not only is it inexpensive, but it?s full-color, loaded with photos and illustrations! Use it for training and encourage your aides to carry it with them into the field to use as a quick reference tool.The second edition contains updated information on:all of the federal requirements for home health aides a considerable emphasis on observing and reporting HIPAA and how to protect a client?s privacy home care focus boxes nutrition and the USDA?s MyPyramid numerous procedures emphasizing how they are performed in the home, including a new two-step procedure for taking blood pressure care guidelines for specific diseases pain management chart of medical and commonly-used abbreviations mercury-free thermometers home-care specific tips for housekeeping and cooking disaster guidelines comprehensive glossary, and easy-to-use index, including a table of where to find procedures