Career Success in Health Care: Professionalism in Action

Anticipatory Exercise: Each chapter begins with an anticipatory exercise to immediately immerse students into chapter concepts, set the tone and establish real-world relevancy for learning the skills.

Test Yourself: Equipping students with the tools to check their own progress, self-test exercises assess learners' current level of knowledge and behavioral skills in each topic area. This establishes a baseline to measure growth, helping students maximize their study time and course success.

Skill Application: After students assess their current level, the worktext walks them through ways to build upon their progress as well as interweaving various related skill applications to guide them in their improvement. Based on their assessment and interaction, the skill applications culminate into a personalized action plan for enhancement of the behavioral skill.

Food For Thought: Offering additional insight, this feature stimulates further thought and critical thinking related to the behavioral skill set being developed.

Just for Fun: Fun thought activities that also teach a lesson.

Case Studies: Case studies to pull integrate and test on multiple concepts and show real world relevance.

There is a deeper focus on connecting professionalism and career skills to employment and career success, which students are challenged to explore through self-assessment, SMART goal achievement and application of learning to personal and professional growth.

Activities to enhance critical and creative thinking have been added alongside expanded content on areas of communication skills, patient satisfaction skills and varied health care careers.

Expanded coverage around ethical and legal issues in health care, infection control and health care to areas outside of the traditional hospital setting has been added.