Book Title: Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants – 2nd Edition
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Book Description: The OER is founded on best-practices related to the competencies and skills for health care assistant (HCA) students, specifically in HCA programs following the British Columbia Provincial curriculum - Health Care Assistant Program Provincial Curriculum 2023. However, the content covered within this textbook can be applied to most HCA program curriculum and offers students the opportunity to acquire personal care and assistance skills within the parameters of the HCA role. The content helps the student learn the theoretical principles and concepts along with understanding the steps of practical skills required to maintain and promote the comfort, safety and independence of individuals in community and facility contexts.
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This book is a cloned version of Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants by Tracy M. Christianson, RN, MN, DHEd, CCNE and Kimberley Morris, RN, BN, and MN, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants - 2nd Edition Copyright © 2023 by Tracy Christianson and Kimberly Morris, Thompson Rivers University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Nursing fundamentals and skills
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Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants - 2nd Edition Copyright © 2023 by Tracy Christianson and Kimberly Morris, Thompson Rivers University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
© 2024 Tracy M. Christianson & Kimberley Morris
Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants was adapted from a number of open educational resources listed in About This Book. It was shared under a Memorandum of Understanding with BCcampus to be adapted as an open education resource (OER).
In September 2024, this textbook has been reviewed by Lisa Beveridge, Tracy M. Christianson, and Kimberly Morris, edited by Barbara Johnston to align with British Columbia’s Health Care Assistant Program Provincial Curriculum 2023.
The CC licence permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise this book—in whole or in part—for free providing it is for non-commercial purposes, and remixed or adapted work is reshared under the same license, and the author is attributed as follows:
Personal Care Skills for Health Care Assistants – 2nd Edition by Tracy M. Christianson & Kimberley Morris is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.If you redistribute all or part of this book, it is recommended the following statement be added to the copyright page so readers can access the original book at no cost:
Download for free from the B.C. Open Collection.Sample APA-style citation (7th Edition):
Christianson, T. M, & Morris, K. (2024). Personal care skills for Health Care Assistants – 2nd edition. BCcampus. https://opentextbc.ca/hcalabtheoryandpractice/Cover image attribution:
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-77420-261-6
Print ISBN: 978-1-77420-260-9
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