This student guide for courses for health care assistants and nurse assistants contains 16 self-paced units with simplified line drawings, controlled text, vocabulary development, and mathematics practice exercises. Units consist of the following: objectives, introduction to the unit, content outline, steps of the procedure, skill sheets, written…

This workshop unit is intended to enable workshop participants to understand the principles of combining two or more therapeutic diets and to write diet combinations. It is a revised workshop containing the "Liberalized Geriatric Diet Policies for Long-Term Care Facilities." Contents include unit and specific objectives, suggested…

This handbook provides basic information for preparing individuals to work as long-term care aides and homemakers. It is written both for college students in long-term care aide/homemaker programs and for individuals already employed in these occupations. Health care agencies giving orientation training for new employees and inservice training for…