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Introduction to Health Care & Careers
Chapter Objectives promote learning by encouraging students to engage with the material.
Key Terms lists define key concepts within the chapter and include pronunciations for the most challenging words.
Chapter Wrap-Ups offer both further opportunity for study and self-assessment.
CheckPoints throughout the chapters pose questions to reinforce and review each chapter’s content.
On Location boxes are brief scenarios followed by open-ended questions to prompt students to think critically about they what they’re learning.
Newsreel features highlight current trends and research information, emphasizing for students the constant growth and development of health care knowledge.
Career Ladders tables show at-a-glance educational requirements, projected job growth, and average salaries.
Health Care Specialty boxes focus on a particular profession, giving a definition and highlights of the job.
Extra! Extra! boxes feature pertinent and fascinating facts about the human body.
Zoom In features offer insider tips about key aspects of patient care or other on-the-job practices as well as key information about working in health care.
Spotlight on Skills outline typical tasks of health care workers in a variety of professions, showing students a snapshot of what it’s like to provide care in the real world.
Procedures are step-by-step illustrated, how-to descriptions of basic tasks required in many health professions, such as taking oral temperature and handwashing, that also include rationales for each step.