cover image - Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 11th Edition
ISBN: 9780443122385
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 11-20-2024
Page Count: 976
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $78.99

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 11th Edition

by Leighann Remmert, MS, RN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 11th Edition
ISBN: 9780443122385
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 11-20-2024
Page Count: 976
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $78.99
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Known for its comprehensive coverage, readability, and visual presentation, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 11th Edition helps prepare students to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings — and includes a practice scenario in each chapter to enhance clinical judgment skills. It’s the most comprehensive text for CNA programs, packed with step-by-step instructions for more than 100 procedures. Lifespan coverage includes skills not only for adults and older residents, but also for maternity and pediatric patients, so students are comfortable in a variety of care settings. Shorter, more focused chapters allow students to learn in manageable portions and an enhanced art program clarifies important concepts and procedural steps.
    • NEW! Chapter organization breaks material into manageable portions, improving students’ ability to retain important information.
    • NEW! More images depicting culturally diverse patients and care takers increase the variety of persons represented in the textbook.
    • NEW! Shorter, more focused chapters help students retain important concepts and skills covered in the NATCEP certification exam.
    • Complete coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to pass the state certification exam and engage in safe practice.
    • Clear writing at a seventh-grade reading level ensures accessibility for low-level learners.
    • More than 100 skills outlined in pre-procedure and post-procedure sections ensure students learn all the necessary steps to pass the skills portion of the certification exam.
    • Focus on Math feature reviews mathematical calculations needed in various care measures and procedures.
    • Getting a Job chapter covers the soft skills needed to seek and obtain employment.
    • Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant role during state inspections.
    • Focus on Practice: Problem Solving scenarios stimulate critical thinking about common situations encountered during practice.
    • Focus on PRIDE: The Person, Family, and Yourself boxes build on chapter concepts to help promote pride in the nursing assistant, the resident, and the resident’s family.
    • Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the importance of the patient’s or resident’s safety and comfort.
    • Delegation Guidelines detail the specifics of accepting delegated tasks.
    • Focus on Children and Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.
    • Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in the long-term and home care settings.
    • Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable.
    • Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help students learn about the various practices of other cultures.
    • Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help nursing assistants work most efficiently whether independently or as part of the nursing team.
    • Chapter review questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter.
  • 1. Health Care Agencies
    2. The Person’s Rights
    3. The Nursing Assistant
    4. Delegation
    5. Ethics and Laws
    6. Student and Work Ethics
    7. The Person and Family
    8. Health Team Communications
    9. Medical Terminology
    10. Body Structure and Function
    11. Growth and Development
    12. The Older Person
    13. The Person’s Unit
    14. Safety
    15. Preventing Falls
    16. Restraint Alternatives and Restraints
    17. Preventing Infection
    18. Isolation Precautions
    19. Safe Handling and Positioning
    20. Moving the Person
    21. Transferring the Person
    22. Bedmaking
    23. Oral Hygiene
    24. Daily Hygiene and Bathing
    25. Grooming
    26. Changing Garments
    27. Urinary Needs
    28. Urinary Catheters
    29. Bowel Needs
    30. Nutrition
    31. Meeting Nutrition Needs
    32. Fluid Needs
    33. Nutritional Support and IV Therapy
    34. Vital Signs
    35. Exercise and Activity
    36. Comfort, Rest, and Sleep
    37. Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
    38. Assisting With the Physical Examination
    39. Collecting and Testing Specimens
    40. The Person Having Surgery
    41. Wound Care
    42. Pressure Injuries
    43. Heat and Cold Applications
    44. Oxygen Needs
    45. Respiratory Support and Therapies
    46. Rehabilitation Needs
    47. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems
    48. Cancer, Immune System, and Skin Disorders
    49. Nervous System and Musculo-Skeletal Disorders
    50. Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Lymphatic Disorders
    51. Digestive and Endocrine Disorders
    52. Urinary and Reproductive Disorders
    53. Mental Health Disorders
    54. Confusion and Dementia
    55. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    56. Caring for Mothers and Babies
    57. Assisted Living
    58. Emergency Care
    59. End-of-Life Care
    60. Getting a Job
  • Leighann Remmert, MS, RN, Certified Nursing Assistant Instructor, Williamsville, Illinois, USA
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