Workplace Readiness for Health Occupations or Applied Codeology

Workplace Readiness for Health Occupations

Author: Bruce J Colbert

This interactive worktext covers the workplace readiness skills identified by the SCANS project and the National Health Care Skill Standards. It allows learners to gain an interactive assessment of current work skills and assists them in developing achievable goals to optimize future success in the work world. This second edition maintains a writing style that helps to personally connect the material to the individual learner's life experience. While easy to read, the book still challenges the learner to think and apply information toward their personal and professional enhancement.

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Reviewer: Steven J. Hamick, BIS, RRT, AE-C (William Beaumont Hospitals)
Description: This innovative text/workbook assists healthcare students learn the fundamental building blocks of basic professional skills needed for a successful career in healthcare. As with its first edition of 1998, this book uses principles and standards of the National Health Care Skill Standards Project and the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills.
Purpose: The major goal is to provide students with a foundation to ensure their success in their healthcare careers. This book is worthy of its objectives.
Audience: Written for healthcare students, this book would be a wonderful workbook for high school students considering a career in healthcare. The author is an expert in his field.
Features: This well-written book is split into two sections, each containing its own chapters. Section One focuses on self communication which helps the student identify strengths and areas of improvement in study skills, personal and professional characteristics of success, time management, stress management, and thinking and reasoning skills. Section Two continues with communication, listening and speaking skills, organizational communication, patient interaction and communication skills as well as job seeking skills such as preparing a resume, cover letters, making contacts and finding openings. Each chapter is interactive and begins with key terms, an introduction, a "What Do You Think" section, a "Critical Thinking and Applications" section for self assessment, and myriad of other features. Many of the illustrations are humorous, which refreshingly lightens some of the starkness that self assessment can generate.
Assessment: This is a delightful and unique text and workbook for those pondering a career in healthcare. This needed resource provides updates in HIPAA regulations, computerized documentation, inclusion of case studies and internet activities, and new sections on technological communication, communication within meetings, and multiculturalism. In addition to being a highly recommended resource for healthcare students, this would be a valuable resource for school and public libraries as well.

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

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Applied Codeology: Based On The 2005 National Electric Code

Author: Delmar Learning Staff

Designed as a 'how to' guide on reading and interpreting the 2005 National Electrical Code®, Applied Codeology is a working companion to the Code®, written by the experts at the NJATC. Apprentices, journeyman, contractors, engineers, designers, and estimators alike will benefit from this positive, systematic approach to understanding the Code®. Readers are encouraged to first examine a section from the Code® Book before referring to the correlating annotations in this manual. Where questions are used to illustrate the 'applied codeology' system, users are requested to locate the answer in the suggested Code® article before checking the answer in this book. This methodical handling of and practice using the Code® Book encourages proficiency in users, and soon they will be able to decide where the answer is located before the Code® Book is even opened. The result is better electrical installations through a higher Code understanding, as well as optimization of the Code® Book as a first-rate tool of the trade.

Table of Contents:

Unit 1	The development of the National Electrical Code	2
Unit 2	Basic building block #1 : table of contents	12
Unit 3	Basic building block #2 : section 90.3	22
Unit 4	Basic building block #3 : NEC structure	38
Unit 5	Basic building block #4 : article 100 : the language of the NEC	54
Unit 6	Codeology fundamentals	60
Unit 7	Article 90, the introduction to the NEC	78
Unit 8	Chapter 1 of the NEC, general	90
Unit 9	Chapter 2 of the NEC, "plan"	108
Unit 10	Chapter 3 of the NEC, "build"	134
Unit 11	Chapter 4 of the NEC, "use"	164
Unit 12	Chapters 5,6 and 7 of the NEC, special	184
Unit 13	Chapter 8 of the NEC, communications systems	214
Unit 14	Chapter 9 of the NEC, tables and annexes	222
Unit 15	Test preparation	228