Patterson, Denise, MT (ASCP)

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Journal of Health Occupations Education Volume 5 Number 1 Article 11 1990 The Homemaker - Home Health Aide Denise Patterson MT (ASCP) Huntsville Hospital Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jhoe University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Health Occupations Education by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact STARS@ucf.edu. Recommended Citation Patterson, Denise MT (ASCP) (1990) "The Homemaker - Home Health Aide," Journal of Health Occupations Education: Vol. 5 : No. 1 , Article 11. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jhoe/vol5/iss1/11 The Homemaker--Home Health Aide. Julie K. Wernig and Sheila A.Sorrentino. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989, 403 PP.The Homemaker--Home Health Aide is a comprehensive instructionaltext for education of homemakers/home health aides. The text,containing 23 chapters, includes discussion of ethics and the law,communication skills, association of the body systems with growth andchanges as one ages, client safety and sexuality, and, the more recenthealth problems of Alzheimer’s  disease, AIDS, and sexually transmitteddiseases, along with the expected basic nursing concepts and clientneeds. Two complimentary manuals are availble: awhich includes a wide array of testing formats, andManual with learning activities and test questions.Strengths of the text include unit objectives,student workbookan Instructor’schapter highlights,and key terms at the beginning of each chapter. Also included areexcellent pictures, many of which are credited to Mosby’s  textboek fornursing assistants, concise diagrams, inserts of explicit proceduresfor required skills, and study questions at the end of each chapter.Moreover, the chapter on body functions includes several coloreddiagrams and a glossary at the end of the text.The student workbook and the instructor’s manual appear to be veryuseful teals. It would be a valuable addition if transparencies couldbe included from the excellent diagrams.Denise Patterson, MT (ASCP),  SM, B.S. MT, Medical TechnologyInstructor, Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Alabama.81Clinical1Patterson: The Homemaker - Home Health AidePublished by STARS, 1990

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