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Health Care Assistant

This guide will help students in the Health Care Assistant program complete requirements for their courses.

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Ebooks

Alzheimer's disease: cause(s), diagnosis, treatment, and care by Khachaturian, Zaven S.
Call Number: EBOOK - 2019
Happily Ever Older: Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care
Call Number: EBOOK - 2021
Hospice & Palliative Care Handbook, Fourth Edition
Call Number: EBOOK

Publication Date: 2023
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity
Call Number: EBOOK

Publication Date: 2017
Mental health: A non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care by Angelina Chadwick and Neil Murphy
Call Number: EBOOK - 2021
A namaste care activity book: sensory stories and activities for people living with advanced dementia by Nicola Kendall
Call Number: EBOOK - 2021
Physical Change and Aging: A Guide for the Helping Professions
Call Number: EBOOK

Publication Date: 2022
The pocket guide to mouth and dental hygiene in dementia care by Daniel Nightingale
Call Number: EBOOK

Publication Date: 2020
The Remedy
Call Number: EBOOK

Publication Date: 2016
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
Call Number: EBOOK - 2022

Critical Dementia Studies: An Introduction
The book is inter-disciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world.
The Many Faces of Dementia in Canada
The Landmark Study 2024.
With the rapid rise of Canada's aging population, the study projects that the number of people living with dementia in the country will increase by 187% by 2050. This is one of the first Canadian studies that seeks to better understand the many faces of dementia and find equitable solutions for future dementia challenges, so that no one is left behind.
Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice
This third edition of Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice will assist nurses and all health care providers to take up the challenge of embedding ethics in health care practice, education, research, and policy at all levels—from local to regional to global.

Books

Balance Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease by Fay B. Horak; Martina Mancini; John Nutt
Call Number: RC 382 .M36 2020

Kelowna campus library
CTE, Media, and the NFL by Travis R. Bell; Janelle Applequist; Christian Dotson-Pierson
Call Number: RC 1220 .F6 B45 2019

Penticton Campus Library.
Everything below the Waist: Why health care needs a feminist revolution by Jennifer Block
Call Number: RA 564.85 .B575 2019

Kelowna Campus Library.
The Mulligan Concept of Manual Therapy by Wayne Hing; Toby Hall; Brian Mulligan
Call Number: RM 701 .H56 2019

Kelowna campus library
Supporting Compassionate Healthcare Practice by Claire Chambers; Elaine Ryder
Call Number: RT 89 .C43 2019

Vernon Campus Library.

Breathing Lessons: a Doctor's Guide to Lung Health by MeiLan K. Han
Call Number: QP121 .H315 2022 Kelowna

Publication Date: 2021

Talking sense: Living with sensory changes and dementia
AUDIO BOOK

Finding Books on the Shelf

To help you browse the Library shelves, try the following areas:

BF 1-839	Psychology
HV 1551-3024	Disabilities
R	Medicine
R 123	Medical Terminology
RC 435-571	Mental Disorders
RM	Pharmacology
RT	Nursing

Revised: Oct 27, 2025 4:05 PM
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Subject Areas: Health Care Assistant (HCA)

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