The following is a list of submitted texts that have been recommended by your fellow Health Occupations Educators! Submit your suggestions to April for posting here!
(Note: These books are not endorsed by WV ACTE HOE, but are simply recommendations made by fellow educators who have used these texts in their programs!)
Textbook Survey Results
HOST
Diversified Health Occupations, Simmers, Delmar, 6th Ed.
Wheeling Park High School (no workbook listed)
Diversified Health Occupations, Simmers, Delmar, 5th Ed
Wood County Technical Center
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Nicholas County Career and Technical Center (no workbook listed) use 4th & 5th
Mason County Career Center (no workbook listed)
Greenbriar West High School
Braxton County High School (no workbook listed) use 4th & 5th Ed.
Mercer County Technical Education Center (no workbook listed)
Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center
Randolph County Vocational Technical Center
Boone Career and Technical Center
Diversified Health Occupations, Simmers, Delmar, 4th Ed.
Summers County High School (no workbook listed)
Taylor County Technical Center (no workbook listed)
Mingo County Vocational Technical Center
Brooke High School (no workbook listed)
Nicholas County Career and Technical Center
Diversified Health Occupations, Simmers, Delmar, no edition listed
Boone Career and Technical Center (no workbook listed)
United Technical Center (no workbook listed)
Valley High School (no workbook listed)
JDR Career Center (no workbook listed)
Clay County High School
Greenbriar East High School (no workbook listed)
Carver Career Center
Preston County High School (no workbook listed)
Webster County High School
DHO Workbook, 5th Ed.
Wood County Technical Center
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Mason County Career Center
Greenbriar West High School
Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center
Boone Career and Technical Center
Randolph County Vocational Technical Center
DHO Workbook, 4th Ed.
Mingo County Vocational Technical Center
DHO Workbook, no edition listed
Clay County High School
Carver Career and Technical Center
Practical Problems in Mathematics for Health Occupations, Simmers, Delmar, copyright 1996
Wood County Technical Center
Diversified Clinical Applications, Badasch and Chesebro
Wheeling Park High School
DHO/Pharmacy: Assisting in the Pharmacy, Askew, Career Publishing
DHO/Physical Therapy Assistant: Physical Therapy Aide, Weiss, Delmar, 2nd Ed
JDR Career Center
Clinical Rotations, Thomson, Delmar
Summers County High School
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
The Human Body in Health and Disease, Memmler, Cohen, Wood, Lippincott
Webster County High School
Community First Aid and Safety, American Red Cross
Webster County High School
Greenbrier West High School
Introduction to Health Occupations, Today’s Health Care Worker, Badasch and Cheseboro
Fundamentals of BLS for Healthcare Providers, Cummins, American Heart Association
Physical Therapist Aide Student Manual, Sanford, Instructional Materials Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia
Anatomy: Body Structures and Functions, 10th Ed, Scott, Delmar
Introduction to Health Occupations, Badasch & Chesebro, Prentice Hall
Math Principles and Practice: Preparing for Health Career Success, Benjamin-Chung, Prentice Hall 1999
First Aid/CPR/AED Program, American Red Cross, 2001
Boone Career and Technical Center
Emergency Care, Limmer, O’Keefe, Grant, Murray, Bergeron, Prentice Hall
Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Marieb, Benjamin/Cummings, Science Publishing
The Emergency Department Technician, McBrien/Cox, Career Publishing
The Clinical Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist, Cox-Stevens, Marshall, Career Publishing 2000
Carver Career and Technical Center
Workplace Readiness for Health Occupations, Colbert, Delmar 2000
An Integrated Approach to Health Sciences, Colbert, Delmar, 1997
Mathematics for Health Occupations, Dunlap, Delmar 1991
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Boone Career and Technical Center
EKG: Multiskilling and Electrocardiography, Brisendine, Delmar 1998
Phlebotomy: Multiskilling: Phlebotomy Collection Procedures, Kovander, Delmar 1999Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Understanding Human Behavior, Milliken, Delmar, 1998
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Introduction to Clinical Allied Health Care, Garber, Career Publishing Inc., 1998
Fundamentals Mathematics for Health Careers, Hayden & Davis, Delmar 1990
Clay County High School
NURSING ASSISTING TEXTBOOKS
Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, Sorrentino, Mosby, 5th ed
Wood County Technical Center
Wheeling Park High School
Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants Workbook, Sorrentino, Mosby, 5th ed
Wood County Technical Center
Nursing Assisting Essentials for Long Term Care, Acella, Delmar, (no edition listed)
Randolph County Vocational Technical Center
Fayette-Plateau Vocational Technical Center
Being a Nursing Assistant, Woldgin, Brady, Prentiss, Hall (no edition listed)
Webster County High School
Wheeling Park High School (7th Edition)
Nicholas County Career and Technical Center
Being a Long Term Care Nursing Assistant, Will/Black, & Eighmy, Prentiss Hall, (no edition listed)
Webster County High School
Long Term Care Nursing Assistant, Sorrentino, Mosby, (no edition listed)
Greenbriar East High School
The Nursing Assistant: Acute, Sub-acute and Long Term Care, Pulliam, Pearson, Prentiss, Hall, (no edition listed)
Boone Career and Technical Center
Nursing Assisting
Being a Long Term Care CNA, Will, Black and Eighmy, Brady Prentiss Hall (no edition listed)
Valley High School
From Nursing Assistant to Clinical Care Associate. Miele and England, Brady Prentiss Hall (no edition listed)
Carver Career and Technical Center
Mosby’s Textbook for Long Term Care Assistants, Sorrentino and Hogan, Mosby, (no edition listed)
Mercer County Technical Education Center
United Technical Center
JDR Career Center
Mosby’s Workbook for Long Term Care Assistants, Kelly, Mosby, 4th Ed
United Technical Center
Skills and Techniques for the New Nursing Assistant, Gillogly, MedCom Trainex, (no edition)
Brooke High School
Assisting in Long Term Care, Hegner & Needham, Delmar
Mason County Career Center (4th Edition)
Braxton County High School (3rd Edition)
Nursing Assistant, Hegnar and Caldwell, Delmar, (no edition listed)
Preston County High School
Nursing Assisting
Assisting in Long Term Care, Hegner & Caldwell & Needham, Delmar (no edition listed)
Preston County High School
Taylor County Technical Center
The Nursing Assistant in Acute and Long Term Care, Hoffman & Guntzer, McCarik, Brady
Successful Nursing Assistant Care, Duggan, Hartman, ((no edition)
Wheeling Park High School
Health Occupations and Assisting in Long Term Care, Hegner & Caldwell, Delmar, 2nd Ed.
Workbook: Assisting in Long Term Care, Hegner, Delmar (no edition listed)
Mingo Vocational Technical Center
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
MEDICAL ASSISTING
Comprehensive Medical Assisting, Lindh, Delmar (no edition listed)
Greenbriar East High School
Clinical Procedures for Medical Assistants, Bonewit & West, Saunders 5th Ed
Pharmacology for Medical Assisting, Rice, Delmar 3rd Ed
Business Administration for Medical Assistants, Erlich, Colwell Systems, 4th Ed
Body Structures and Functions, 9th Ed, Scott and Fong, Delmar
Transcription: Hillcrest Medical Center, 4th Ed, Novak and Ireland, Delmar
Coding and Billing: Understanding Health Insurance, 6th Ed, Rowell, Green, Burke, Delmar
Academy of Careers and Technology
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Dean Vaughn Medical Terminology 350
Boone Career and Technical Center
Wood County Technical Center
Carver Career and Technical Center
Medical Terminology A Systems Approach, Gylys Wedding, F.A. Davis, 4th Ed
Wood County Technical Center
Valley High School (ordered, ?approved for purchase)
Medical Terminology for Health Professionals, Ehrlich, Delmar, no edition noted
Greenbriar West High School
Clay County High School
Medical Terminology for Health Professionals, Ehrlich, Delmar, 4th ed
Greenbriar East High School
Medical Terminology Made Easy, Dennerell, Delmar, 2nd ed.
Summers County High School
Medical Terminology Simplified, Gylys, F.A. Davis, (no edition listed)
Carver Career and Technical Center
Medical Terminology, Fremgen, Brady, Prentiss, & Hall (no edition listed)
Wheeling Park High School
Current Procedural Terminology 2003, American Medical Assoc., AMA Press 2002
Carver Career and Technical Center
Medical Terminology
Body Structures and Functions, Scott and Fong, Delmar
Summers County High School
Body Structures and Functions, Scott, Delmar 1998
Taber’s Medical Dictionary, 19th Ed, F.A. Davis, 2001
Greenbrier East High School
Health Unit Co-ordinating, 3rd Ed., LaFleur-Brooke, W.B. Saunders Co./ Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993
Wheeling Park High School
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT
Math for Meds, 8th Ed, Curren and Munday, W I Publications, 2000
Medical Assisting Administrative & Clinical Competencies, 5th Ed, Keir, Wise & Krebs, Delmar 2003
Medical Assisting Administrative & Clinical Workbook, 5thEd, Keir, Wise, Krebs, LMAR, 2003
Computer in Med Office w/Disk, 3rd Ed, Glencoe, 2001
2002 Coding workbook for Physician’s Office, Covell, Delmar, 2002
Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy, Springhouse, 2001
Mercer County Technical Education Center
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY
Pocket Guide to the Operating Room, 2nd Ed, Goldman, F. A. Davis, 1996
Care of Patient in Surgery, 11th Ed, Alexander, Mosby 1999
Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, 4th Ed, Scanlon, F. A. Davis
Workbook to accompany Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, Scanlon, F. A. Davis
Workbook to accompany Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, Scanlon, F. A. Davis
Surgical Instruments (A Pocket Guide), Papaier-Wells, W. B. Saunders
Dr. Watson’s Medical Terminology Workbook, Tatro & Watson, Angelwine Press
Surgical Technology for Surgical Technologist, Delmar, 2001
Studyguide to accompany Surgical Technology for Surgical Technologist
Optional: Medical Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 5th Ed, Mosby, 1998
Mercer County Technical Education Center
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
DENTAL ASSISTING
Dental Assisting, A Comprehensive Approach, Phinney, Halstead, Delmar, 2000
Workbook accompanies text
Mercer County Technical Education Center
Carver Career Center
Workbook to accompany Dental Assisting, A Comprehensive Approach, Waide, Delmar 2000
Carver Career Center
The Administrative Dental Assistant, Gastor, W. B. Saunders
Workbook accompanies text
Dental Terminology, Charline DoFka, Delmar, 2000
orkbook to accompany
Mercer County Technical Education Center
OSAP Interact Training System Employee Workbook, Eklund, Rechih & Coleman, Inc., 2002
Competency Skills for the Dental Assistant, DoFka, Delmar
Dean Vaughn Dental Termonology, Dean Vaughn, DCM Instructional Systems, 1998
Dental Instruments, Pocket Guide, Elsevier, 2002
Carver Career Center
Modern Dental Assisting, 6th Ed, Torres & Ehrilich
Business Administration for the Dental Assistant, 4th Ed., Ehrilich
Raleigh County Academy of Careers and Technology
TEXTBOOK SURVEY RESULTS
LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSING
To Be A Nurse, Anderson, 2000
Nutrition Essential and Diet Therapy, 4th Ed, Robertson, Williams, Schlenkes, 2003
Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide, Karch 2004
Maternal Child Health Nursing, Ingolls and Salerno, 1999
Textbook of Basic Nursing, Rosdahl/Bunker, 2003
Study Guide to accompany Textbook of Basic Nursing, Nowicki, 2003
Caring for Older Adults Holistically, Anderson, 2003
Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Townsend, 2002
Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Miller & Keane, 2003
Structure and Function of the Human Body, Memmler, 2000
Roane-Jackson Technical Center
Essentials Anatomy & Physiology, 4th Ed, Davis, Scanlon 2003
Workbook for Essentials for Anatomy & Physiology, 3rd Ed, Davis, Scanlon 2003
Fundamentals of Nursing, 4th Ed, Lippincott 2001
Procedures Checklist to Accompany Fundamentals of Nursing, 4th Ed, Lippincott 2001
Basic Nutrition/Diet Therapy, 11th Ed, Williams, Mosby, 2001
Contemporary Practical Vocational Nursing, 4th Ed, Kurzen, Lippincott 2001
Nurses Drug Guide, 8th Ed, Wilson, Davis 2004
Medical Terminology Simplified – A Programmed Learning Approach, 2nd Ed, Gyles, Davis 1998
Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing, 8th Ed, Scherer, Lippincott
Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 5th Ed, Shives, Lippincott 2002
Maternal & Child Care Health Nursing, 9th Ed, Novak & Broom, Mosby, 1999
Introduction Gerontological Nursing, Roach, Lippincott, 2001
Optional:
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 19th Ed, Davis, 2001
Diagnostic and Lab Test Reference, 5th Ed, Mosby 2001
Review Questions for the NCLEX-PN, 3rd Ed, Smith, Appleton Lang 2002 or any review for NCLEX-PN by Lippincott or Mosby
Mercer County Technical Education Center
Licensed Practical Nursing
Math for Meds, 8th Ed, Curren & Munday, W. I. Publications, 2000
Mercer County Technical Education Center
Wood County School of Practical Nursing
Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, Clayton & Stock, 2001
Roane-Jackson Technical Center
Mercer County Technical Education Center
Adult Health Nursing, 4th Ed, Christensen, Harcourt Health Sciences
Foundations of Nursing, 4th Ed, Christensen, Harcourt Health Sciences
Drug and Lab Reference, 6th Ed, Pagana, Harcourt Health Sciences
Basic Pharmacology, 12 Ed, Clayton, Harcourt Health Sciences
The Human Body in Health and Illness, 2nd Ed, Herlihy, Harcourt Health Sciences
Study Guide: The Human Body in Health and Illness, 2nd Ed, Herlihy, Harcourt Health Sciences
Medical Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary, 6th Ed, Mosby, Harcourt Health Sciences
Caring for the Older Adult, O’Neill, Harcourt Health Sciences
Premium Package Nursing Drug Handbook, Skidmore, Harcourt Health Sciences
Criteria for Determining Scope of Practice for LPNs & Guidelines for Determining Acts that May Be Delegated or Assigned by Licensed Nurses – Purple Book
Stepping Toward Control, HERC Publishing
Wood County Technical Center
Mental Health Nursing, Bauer & Hill, W. B. Saunders Co. 2000
Adult Health Nursing, Christensen and Kockrow, Mosby 2003
Thompson’s Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing,Leifer, W. B. Saunders, 2003
Understanding Human Behavior, Milliken, Delmar 1998
Calculate with Confidence, Morris, Mosby, 2002
Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-PN, Silvestri, W. B. Saunders 2003
Mosby’s Nursing Drug Reference, Skidmore-Roth, Mosby, 2003
Structure and Function of the Body, Thibodiau & Patton, Mosby, 2000
Study Guide to Accompany Structure & Function of the Body, Swisher, Mosby, 2000
Basic Geriatric Nursing, Wold, Mosby, 2003
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Thomas, F. A. Davis, 2001
Greenbrier School of Practical Nursing
Licensed Practical Nursing
Success in Practical Nursing: Student Leadership, 4th Ed, Hill, Harcourt Health Sciences
Greenbrier School of Practical Nursing
Wood County Technical Center
Nutritional/Diet Therapy, Williams, Mosby, 11th Ed 2001
Fundamental Skills and Concepts, Timby & Lewis, Lippincott, 7th Ed., 2000
Success in Practical Nursing, Hill & Howlett, Saunmders, 4th Ed., 2001
Keanes Essentials of Med-Surg Nursing, DeWitt, Saunders, 4th Ed, 1998
Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, Linton & Marbius, Saunders, 3rd Ed, 2003, adopted for 2003-04 school year
Basic Geriatric Nursing, Wold, Mosby, 2nd Ed, 1999
Memmler’s Structure and Function of the Human Body, Cohen & Wood, Lippincott, 7th Ed, 2000
Mental Health-Mental Health Illness, Barry, Lippincott, 7th Ed., 2002
Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, Clayton & Stock, Mosby, 12 Ed, 2001
Maternity Nursing an Introductory Text, Burroughs, Saunders, 8th Ed., 2001
Pediatric Nursing an Introductory Test, Thompson & Ashwell, Saunders, 8th Ed, 2001
Summers County School of Practical Nursing
Anatomy and Physiology. Herlihy, B., & Maebius, N. (2003). The Human Body in Health and Illness, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0721695078
Comments: Very readable format. Includes study guide, CD-ROM, and practical application of processes such as diffusion and osmosis. The Do You Know boxes have historical tidbits and the As You Age boxes discuss gerontologic changes. Highly recommend it!
Pharmacology. Morris, D. G. (2002). Calculate with Confidence, 3rd ed. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 032301349X
Comments: Great workbook for basic math, dosage, and IV calculations. Great supplement to pharmacology book for medication administration info. Includes CD-ROM with practice problems. Highly recommended! |