Over 18000 digitized sections of the body and Images demonstrate
introductory concepts of anatomy.

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The health care industry is one of the fastest-growing areas of todayʾs job market. Over the next decade, this dynamic field will offer more than 3.5 million new jobs, many of which offer good pay and relatively short training periods. Exploring Health Care Careers covers more than 100 careers in the health care field, including expanded coverage of careers in alternative medicine. Informed by interviews with people working in careers related to health care, each article contains an in-depth look at a particular job, including typical responsibilities, the training and skills required, salary and job outlook information and much more. Access at: http://www.linccweb.org/catalog?screen=direct&query=001311498

Determining your patients' health literacy skills

Despite teaching endeavors, nurses are constantly faced with patients who do not understand how to manage their health-care. This problem has come to the forefront of healthcare issues. As a society, there is concern that despite medical advances, progress with healthcare may be in jeopardy because the skills needed by patients to manage their care are insufficient.This issue is affected by many factors. One of the most prominent factors is the lack of patient health literacy skill assessment. One of the first and most basic parts of the nursing process is to assess the patient. To teach patients, we must identify their learning needs, but the assessment cannot stop there. Nurses need to know patients' health literacy skills so that they can teach them in the best manner possible.This article provides specific information on health literacy assessment tools and the skills needed by nurses to use these tools. Each nurse must decide what tools will work for his or her patients, so that in the end, each patient will understand how to manage his or her healthcare...

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Access at: http://www.bartleby.com/107/ This is an excellent website that provides anatomy information and a vast amount of illustrations of the human body that are useful to medical students.

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