Lippincott's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Lippincotts Essentials for Nursing Assistants 9781609137502
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Publication Date: Dec 5, 2012
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Edition: Third
ISBN/ISSN: 9781609137502
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Provides the foundational concepts and facts that a nursing assistant needs to function competently in the workplace, be it a long-term care facility, an acute care facility, or a home health agency.  Because students enrolled in “essentials” courses — 1) have limited time to read/prepare for class and 2) many have difficulty reading, (learning disabilities, ESL students) — we have included only the most basic, essential information, with the understanding that this foundational knowledge will be supplemented by classroom instruction and on-the-job training.

Features

Procedure boxes. Seventy-one core procedures are presented in this text, including all 25 National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAP) procedures.

 

Guidelines (“What You Do/Why You Do It”) boxes. These boxes summarize guidelines for carrying out key nursing assistant actions.

 

Tell the Nurse! notes highlight and summarize signs and symptoms that a nursing assistant may observe that should be reported to the nurse.

 

Stop and Think! scenarios. Each chapter concludes with one or more Stop and Think! scenarios. These scenarios encourage students to critically solve problems, and help them to see that many situations they will encounter in the workplace do not have cut-and-dried answers.

 

Nurse Pam. Nurse Pam, modeled and named after the author of this book, appears throughout the text in various scenarios to help students empathize with their patients or residents.

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Specs

  • Edition: Third
  • Product Format: Softbound
  • ISBN: 9781609137502
  • Trim Size: 8.375 x 10.875
  • Pages: 724
  • Pub Date: Dec 5, 2012
  • Weight: 3.0

Table of contents

TOC for 3rd Edition Unit 1 Introduction to Health Care   1 The Health Care System 2 The Nursing Assistant’s Job 3 Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills 4 Communication Skills 5 Those We Care For 6 The Patient’s or Resident’s Environment   Unit 2 The Human Body in Health and Disease   7 Basic Body Structure and Function 8 Common Disorders 9 Rehabilitation and Restorative Care   Unit 3 Safety 10 Infection Control 11 Workplace Safety 12 Patient and Resident Safety 13 Basic First Aid and Emergency Care   Unit 4 Basic Patient and Resident Care 14 Assisting With Repositioning and Transferring 15 Assisting With Exercise 16 Bedmaking 17 Measuring and Recording Vital Signs, Height, and Weight 18 Assisting With Hygiene 19 Preventing Pressure Ulcers and Assisting With Wound Care 20 Assisting With Grooming 21 Assisting With Nutrition 22 Assisting With Urinary Elimination 23 Assisting With Bowel Elimination 24 Assisting With Comfort   Unit 5 Special Care Concerns 25 Caring for People Who Are Dying 26 Caring for People With Dementia 27 Caring for People With Developmental Disabilities 28 Caring for People With Cancer 29 Caring for People With HIV/AIDS 30 Caring for People Who Are Having Surgery 31 Home Health Care    NEW CHAPTER!