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cover image - Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,9th Edition
ISBN: 9780323319812
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 02-16-2016
Page Count: 936
Imprint: Mosby
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Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 9th Edition

by Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN and Leighann Remmert, MS, RN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,9th Edition
ISBN: 9780323319812
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 02-16-2016
Page Count: 936
Imprint: Mosby
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Master the essential skills of today’s nursing assistant! Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th Edition prepares you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings. Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easy-to-read, visual approach, this book includes step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures. New to this edition is a practice scenario in each chapter to help you develop problem solving and critical thinking skills, as well as Focus on Math boxes that highlight common calculations done on the job. Written by well-known educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication — two elements critical to being an effective nursing assistant.

    • Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant.
    • Guidelines to over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.
    • A clear, readable writing style is supplemented with more than 1,000 full-color photographs and illustrations.
    • Key terms and abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book.
    • Review questions in each chapter are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and preparing for a test or the competency evaluation.
    • Video icons indicate skills for which video is provided on the free Evolve companion website or in Mosby’s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 4.0 (sold separately).
    • Summary boxes highlight key aspects of patient care including safety and comfort, long-term care, home care, personal pride, the needs of children and older persons, cultural considerations, communication guidelines, delegated tasks, teamwork, and time management.
    • Focus on PRIDE boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, the family, and yourself.
    • The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for every procedure in the textbook. The Competency Evaluation Review includes a content review, skills evaluation review, and two practice exams to prepare students for their certification exam. Sold separately.
    • Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care.
    • Focus on Long-Term Care and Focus on Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings.
    • Focus on Children and Focus on Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.
    • Caring About Culture boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care.
    • Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team.
    • Teamwork and Time Management boxes cite ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members.
    • Delegation Guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.
    • NEW Getting a Job chapter describes the professional skills needed for seeking and landing a new job upon certification.
    • NEW Delegation chapter explains how nursing assistants work within the health care team and receive instructions from the nurse, and includes tips on questions to ask when receiving delegated tasks.
    • NEW! Focus on Math highlights the basic math skills you need as a nursing assistant.
    • NEW! Focus on Practice: Problem Solving includes scenarios that develop your critical thinking skills in common situations encountered during practice.
    • NEW! NATCEP skills are identified as skills most often required for demonstration on state certification exams.
    • NEW! Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant’s role during state inspections.
    • NEW! Focus on PRIDE application questions promote pride in the nursing assistant, the person, and the person’s family.
    • UPDATED video clips from the latest Nursing Assistant Video Skills series demonstrate selected skills.
    • UPDATED Body Spectrum interactive anatomy review is available on the Evolve companion website.
  • 1. Introduction to Health Care Agencies
    2. The Person’s Rights
    3. The Nursing Assistant
    4. NEW! Delegation
    5. Ethics and Laws
    6. Work Ethics
    7. Communicating with the Health Team
    8. Assisting with the Nursing Process
    9. Understanding the Person
    10. Body Structure and Function
    11. Growth and Development
    12. Care of the Older Person
    13. Safety
    14. Preventing Falls
    15. Restraint Alternatives and Safe Restraint Use
    16. Preventing Infection
    17. Body Mechanics
    18. NEW! Safely Moving the Person
    19. NEW! Safely Transferring the Person
    20. The Person’s Unit
    21. Bedmaking
    22. Personal Hygiene
    23. Grooming
    24. Urinary Elimination
    25. NEW! Urinary Catheters
    26. Bowel Elimination
    27. Nutrition and Fluids
    28. Nutritional Support and IV Therapy
    29. Measuring Vital Signs
    30. Exercise and Activity
    31. Comfort, Rest, and Sleep
    32. Admission, Transfers, and Discharges
    33. Assisting with the Physical Examination
    34. Collecting and Testing Specimens
    35. The Person Having Surgery
    36. Wound Care
    37. Pressure Ulcers
    38. Heat and Cold Applications
    39. Oxygen Needs
    40. Respiratory Support and Therapies
    41. Rehabilitation and Restorative Nursing
    42. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems
    43. Cancer, Immune System, and Skin Disorders
    44. Nervous System and Musculoskeletal Disorders
    45. Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Lymphatic Disorders
    46. Digestive and Endocrine Disorders
    47. Urinary and Reproductive Disorders
    48. Mental Health Problems
    49. Confusion and Dementia
    50. Development Disabilities
    51. Sexuality
    52. Caring for Mothers and Children
    53. Assisted Living
    54. Basic Emergency Care
    55. End-of-Life Care
    56. NEW! Getting a Job
  • Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN, Curriculum and Health Care Consultant, Anthem, AZ and Leighann Remmert, MS, RN, Certified Nursing Assistant Instructor, Williamsville, Illinois
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