Nurse Aid

This guide is tailored to help you succeed on the NHA-CPCT/A exam, focusing on the key areas of patient care. It covers roles and responsibilities, basic and advanced patient care techniques, infection control, and patient safety. The guide also provides insights into effective communication, medical terminology, phlebotomy, EKG, and emergency procedures. Legal and ethical considerations, quality assurance, and career development are thoroughly addressed. This resource ensures comprehensive preparation for the exam and a successful career as a Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant.

Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and health-care activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need.

Are you looking to become an emergency medical technician or become a front-liner in the medical field? If you are, then this is the right guide you need to get started. Emergency medical technicians, often known as EMTs, are typically among the first to respond at the site of an accident or emergency. Typically, they are the ones in the ambulance. Nevertheless, some may arrive by helicopter. It depends on the situation. When required, EMTs react to 911 calls to give medical help. This might include everything from administering CPR to bandaging a wound. The first thing EMTs do when they ...

In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a place which sits at the cutting edge of medical technology and where a split-second decision can make the difference between life and death.