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Patient Care Technician

Certified Patient Care Technicians assist doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals in providing direct patient care in a variety of healthcare environments. As a Certified Patient Care Technician, you may perform some or all of the following tasks:

Provide basic patient care including bathing, feeding, toileting and ambulating patients
Acquire and distribute patient care supplies. Change bed linens and process dirty linens properly
Perform safety checks to keep patient rooms clean and clutter – free
Maintain clear paths in hallways clear and return equipment that is no longer in use
Obtain EKG readings
Perform phlebotomy procedures

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Patient Care Technician Exam Secrets Study Guide by Patient Care Exam Secrets Test Prep Staff (Editor)
ISBN: 9781627338905
Publication Date: 2015-02-25
Patient Care Technician Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to Patient Care Technician Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; Comprehensive sections including: Prefixes, Suffixes, Abbreviations, Legal Terms, HIPAA, Professionalism, Ethics, Heart Structures, Heart Functions, Electrocardiography, Instrument Safety, Patient Safety, Body Systems, Disease Recognition, Infection Control, Exposure Control, Asepsis, Sterilization, Venipuncture, Collection Specimens, Taking Vitals, Communication, Assisting With Activites, Activities of Daily Living, Monitoring Dietary/Liquid Intake, AROM/PROM, and much more...
Exploring the Gray Zone by Andrea DeSantis Kerr (Editor); Robert "Pete" Bill (Editor); Christina V. Tran (Editor)
ISBN: 9781557537478
Publication Date: 2016-08-15
This text explores difficult situations veterinary technicians face on a daily basis through the use of case examples and dialogue. Each case scenario describes a real-life situation for a veterinary technician, poses thought-provoking questions, and provides commentary that focuses on the legal aspect of the scenario, the social or personal ethics of the parties involved, and/or the welfare of the animal (s).
Encyclopedia of Medical Terminology by Shahriar Abbassi (Editor)
ISBN: 9781536167979
Publication Date: 2020-02-03
The book is an encyclopedic dictionary of all fields of study and research in medicine. In fact, it is a broad collection of over 127 special dictionaries containing terms of all medical titles and specialties with common alphabetical order that have been carefully selected from professionally relevant websites.

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Alt HealthWatch
Provides coverage of complementary and alternative medicine back to 1990. (Mostly full text)
CINAHL Complete
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EBSCO eBook Collection
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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. (Some full-text)
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
MedicLatina
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. (Full-text).
Medline
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)
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