Introduction to Health Care
by Lee Haroun, Dakota Mitchell
5th Edition
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780357123072 |
| eText ISBN | 9798214346458 |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 640 |
In Introduction to Health Care, 5th Edition, authors Lee Haroun and Dakota Mitchell present an introductory textbook designed to teach foundational skills across a wide range of health care professions. The content is tailored for individuals considering a career in health fields as well as students entering formal health care training programs.
The text focuses on building core competencies required across clinical and administrative health settings. Main thematic areas include effective workplace communication, standardized infection control practices, fundamental clinical skills, and established standards of professionalism for health care workers.
To prepare students for workplace decision-making, the text integrates a five-step problem-solving model aimed at developing critical thinking skills. This step-by-step methodology provides beginning students with a clear framework for analyzing scenarios and solving problems encountered during their health care training.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Your Career in Health Care
- • Your Future in Health Care
- • Getting Off to a Good Start
- • Essential Core Qualities of Health Care Professionals
- • Learning for Mastery
- • Volunteering
- • Professional Organizations
- • Returning Adult Students
- • Learning to Think Like a Health Care Professional
- • Problem-Solving Process
- • Making a Career Decision
- • Educational Requirements
- • Standards for Health Care Professionals
- • Occupational Profiles
- • Therapeutic and Treatmen t Occupations
- • Diagnostic Occupations
- • Sources of Additional Information
Chapter 2: Health Care Y esterda y, Today, and T omorrow
- • The History of W estern Health Care
- • Trends a nd Issues in Health Care Today
- • Specialization
- • Aging Population
- • Cost of Health Care
- • Variety of Approaches to Health Care
- • Wellness
- • Holistic Medicine
- • Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine
- • The Futur e of Health Care
- • Challenges in Health Care To day
- • Providing Affordable Health Care
- • Providing Long-T erm Care
- • Improving Social Conditions
- • Eliminating Racism in Health Care
- • Maintaining the Quality of Care
- • Treating Alzheimer’s and Other Forms of Dementia
- • Addressing Public Health Concerns
- • Encouraging Medication Adherence
- • Managing the Opioid Crisis
- • Preventing Antibiotic Resistance
- • Preventing Suicides
- • Dealing with TV Prescription Drug Ads
- • Health Care Facilities and Services
- • Hospitals
- • Ambulatory Services
- • Long-Term Care Facilitie s
- • Home Health Care Providers
- • Hospice
- • Consolidation of Health Care Services
- • New Types of Health Care Facilities
- • Government Health Services
- • State Health Departments
- • Local Health Departments
Chapter 3: Ethical and Legal Responsibilities
- • The Purpose of Ethics
- • Ethics and the Law
- • Ethics and Health Care
- • Professional Codes of Ethics
- • Personal Values
- • Professional Values
- • Guiding Principles of Health Care Ethics
- • Preserve Life
- • Do Good
- • Respect Autonomy
- • Uphold Justice
- • Be Honest
- • Be Discreet
- • Keep Promises
- • Do No Harm
- • Patient Rights
- • Handling Ethical Dilemmas
- • Who Decides?
Chapter 4: Medical T erminology
- • Importance of Medical Term inology
- • The Building Blocks of Medical Langua ge
- • Word Roots and Combining Forms
- • Suffixes
- • Prefixes
- • Deciphering Medical Terms
- • Example # 1 cardiology
- • Example # 2 polyarthritis
- • Example # 3 echocardiogram
- • Eponyms
- • Words with Special Meanings in Medicine
- • Names of Drugs
- • Spelling and Pronunciation
- • Medical Abbreviations and Symbols
- • Medical Dictionary
- • Mastering Medical Termino logy
Chapter 5: Medical Math
- • Importance of Math in Health Care
- • Math Anxiety
- • Basic Calculations
- • Whole Numbers
- • Decimals
- • Fractions
- • Percentages
- • Ratios
- • Converting Decimals, Fractions, Percentages, and Ratios
- • Rounding Numbers
- • Solving Problems with Proportions
- • Estimating
- • Statistics
- • Military Time
- • Roman Numerals
- • Angles
- • Systems of Measurement
- • Household System
- • Metric System
- • Apothecary System
- • Converting Systems of Measurement
- • Medication Safety
- • Tem perature Conv ersion
Chapter 6: Organization of the Human Body
- • The Basis of Life
- • Cells
- • Tissues
- • Describing the Body
- • Body Planes
- • Directional T erms
- • The Body Cavities
- • Abdominal Descriptions
Chapter 7: Structure and Functi on of the Human Body
- • The Importance of Anatom y and Physiology
- • Genetics
- • The Systems of the Body
- • Systems for Movement and Protection
- • Skeletal
- • Muscular
- • Integumentary
- • Systems for Providing Energy and Removing Waste
- • Circulatory
- • Respiratory
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