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Prentice Hall Health Review Series

About the book
Outline Review for the Medical Assistant by Marsha Perkins Hemby is an indispensable resource for helping you prepare for the certification exam. Organized by key content areas within medical assisting, the book blends its comprehensive collection of clear concise information with the exciting possibilities of computer technology. As you build confidence by digging into this rich content review, you'll find that the Prentice Hall Health test preparation system is a blueprint for success across the boards.

Boost Your Scores, Launch Your Career!
Our technology solutions allow you to gain more practice and review. Log onto www.prenhall.com/review or load the CD-ROM that accompanies this book to find additional questions, rationales, and links to related resources. The CD-ROM includes an audio glossary and more than 400 questions.

About the Author
Marsha Perkins Hemby, BA, RN, CMA is chair of the medical assisting department at Pitt Community College in Greenville, NC, where she has been teaching since 1972.

About the Series
Success Across the Boards is a study system that revolutionizes exam preparation for a variety of health care professions. By integrating interactive technology with authoritative content and realistic sample test questions, Outline Review for the Medical Assistant will help you join the many others who have used these materials to achieve success on the boards. The series is comprised of test preparation resources for the following health care professions:

• Dental Hygiene
• Medical Assisting
• Nursing
• Phlebotomy
• Emergency Medical Services

Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant
Special Edition

Peggy A. Grubbs, RN, BSN

Emphasizing a restorative, holistic approach, the Second Edition of Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant continues to detail the role of the nursing assistant in the delivery of quality care across all health care systems - acute, subacute, long-term and home. The focus is on meeting the needs of the whole person - both physically and phychosocially. Combining comprehensive information, with visual reinforcement, and numerous chapter exercises, it is a complete resource for any nursing assisting course.

Features:

• Special Edition refers to our new straightforward design and highly affordable package.
• New, lengthier, end-of-chapter exercises including fill-in-the-blank, key points, a case study, and multiple choice questions.
• New Chapter - Employability Skills highlights career management, job hunting and job retention.
• New Chapter - Surveys and Accreditation details regulatory agencies and standards of care.
• Increased emphasis on cultural awareness.
• Chapter opening objectives and key terms for each chapter.
• Interpersonal relationships are discussed with specific communication guidelines.

The tradition continues-even better than ever!

Now in its ninth edition, this market-leading text continues to aid instructors in preparing the nation's finest nursing assistants to deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home health settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare.

To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that demonstrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions.

Accompanied by a wide range of new media, this resource is unsurpassed in providing a total package of learning tools that promote individual success in the classroom, on the certifying exam, and in the clinical setting.

• NEW! Guidelines and Procedures-including Waterless Hand Hygiene and Applying a Condom Catheter
• NEW! Rationales for all procedures that help students to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions
• NEW! Topics such as SARS precautions and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease
• NEW! Charting examples in each procedure that reinforce the importance of documentation
• NEW! Tear-Out Clinical Pocket Translator that provides Spanish translations of commonly encountered words and phrases to help enhance patient care through improved communication
• Expanded coverage of infection control and patient restraints
• FREE Companion Website provides chapter-specific online resources for both students and instructors including certification review multiple choice questions, case studies, matching exercises, weblinks, a Syllabus Manager, an audio glossary and more
• FREE Student CD-ROM provides certification review multiple choice questions, videos and an audio glossary