Business Finance or Health Careers Today

Business Finance

Author: Les Dlabay

BUSINESS FINANCE presents finance from a business point of view. This text covers finance fundamentals, long-term and short-term funding sources, business risk management, use of technology, and international finance. Business Finance combines fundamental concepts with a strong lesson-based instructional design, weaving in interesting real-world features, creative methods of assessment, research opportunities, financial calculations, case studies, and academic connections. Examine the financial side of running a business, keeping records, protecting against loss, offering credit, and making strategic decisions.

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Health Careers Today

Author: Judith Gerdin

This valuable guide provides an introduction to the basic health care environment and a preview of various popular health careers designed to help students make informed choices based on their interest and their commitment to the educational and professional responsibilities of each health career. It gives students a realistic glimpse of various health careers available today, outlining the roles and responsibilities, levels of education and credentialing, daily functions, and key disorders and assessment tools that are involved.
• Clear introductory information to approximately 60 health careers is presented, providing an excellent way for students to explore the roles and responsibilities of various health care careers.
• The book follows the National Health Care Skill Standards, which apply to workers across the entire health care industry.
• An Anatomy and Physiology unit (Unit 2) clearly presents the structure and function, assessment techniques, disorders, issues, and innovations of the various anatomy and physiology systems so students can see the applications of science in various career settings.
• Comprehensive career chapters incorporate the skills associated with specific careers into the chapter's discussion so readers can investigate the skills, functions, and issues related to that career.
• Learning Objectives at the beginning of every chapter give students an idea of what they should get out of the chapter and help them focus on critical information.
• Lists of Key Terms for each chapter provide definitions of terms that help the reader understand the chapter more clearly.
• Easy-to-follow Skill Lists in manychapters present step-by-step instructions on how to perform various career or health care related tasks.
• Figures, boxes, and tables throughout the book highlight important points in an easy-to-read format, often providing details not incorporated in the text discussion.
• Terminology boxes highlight the most important terminology in the chapter, provide their definitions, and break them into parts to aid in the reader's understanding.
• Abbreviation boxes list frequently used abbreviations and their meanings to familiarize readers with these abbreviations.
• Review questions and critical-thinking questions at the end of every chapter help students memorize important facts and apply them to chapter topics.
• Appendices provide important and practical information that students will need throughout their health care education and career.
• A new chapter on careers in alternative or complementary therapies and treatments covers careers in Alternative Medical Systems, Mind-Body Interventions, Biological-Based Therapies, Manipulative and Body-Based Methods, and Energy Therapies.
• Career chapters have been reorganized and broken down into three topics: Careers, Content Instruction, and Performance Instruction so that similar information on careers is available in each chapter.
• More applications and skills have been added, with critical thinking exercises at the end of every chapter and skill resources in the workbook to further engage students.
• A separate chapter on Foundational Skills has been added, featuring expanded, more detailed information on the skills.
• Information on bioterrorism has been added to relevant chapters, and careers associated with bioterrorism are discussed in the chapter on Biotechnology Careers.

Table of Contents:

1	History, Current Trends, and Future	4
2	Interpersonal Dynamics and Communication	22
3	Safety Practices	42
4	Legal and Ethical Principles	60
5	Seeking a Career in Health Care	70
6	Body Organization	92
7	The Cardiovascular System	104
8	The Circulatory System	118
9	The Respiratory System	132
10	The Skeletal System	144
11	The Muscular System	160
12	The Digestive System	172
13	The Urinary System	184
14	The Endocrine System	194
15	The Nervous System	206
16	The Sensory System	220
17	The Integumentary System	232
18	The Reproductive System	244
19	Wellness, Growth and Development	260
20	Laboratory Science in Health Care	278
21	Imaging in Health Care	294
22	Nursing Health Care	302
23	Medical Health Care	318
24	Dental Health Care	330
25	Animal Health Care	346
26	Community and Social Health Care	362
27	Mental Health Careers	374
28	Rehabilitative Health Care	382
29	Emergency Health Care	400
30	Information and Administration in Health Care	432
31	Environmental Health Careers	450
32	Biotechnology and Research in Health Care	468
	Appendix I: Common Prefixes, Word Roots, and Suffixes	480
	Appendix II: Abbreviations and Symbols	486
	Appendix III: Vitamins and Minerals	494
	Glossary	496
	Index	506