Being A Nursing Assistant

Now in its ninth edition, this market-leading book continues to prepare the nation's finest nursing assistants in the deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare. To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that illustrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW - Guidelines and Procedures-including Waterless Hand Hygiene and Applying a Condom Catheter. NEW! Rationales for all procedures that help students to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW! Topics such as SARS precautions and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease. NEW! Charting examples in each procedure that reinforce the importance of documentation. NEW! Tear-Out English-Spanish Clinical Pocket Reference that provides translations of commonly encountered words and phrases to aide in client care. Expanded coverage of infection control and patient restraints. FREE Companion Website provides chapter-specific online resources for both students and instructors including certification review multiple choice questions, case studies, matching exercises, weblinks, a Syllabus Manager, an audio glossary and more. FREE Student CD-ROM provides certification review multiple choice questions and an audio glossary. Nursing assistants in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings as well as those studying to enter into the field.

Now in its Second Edition, this textbook prepares students to work as nursing assistants in long-term care, acute care, and home health care settings, and provides a firm foundation for advancement to an LPN and ultimately an RN role. The book is written in a direct, conversational writing style with an emphasis on professionalism and humanism. This edition is significantly updated and has new photographs and illustrations. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes an audio glossary. An audiobook version of the entire text in MP3 format is available as a separate purchase. A student-edition DVD, containing selected procedures from Lippincott's Video Series for Nursing Assistants, is also available as a separate purchase.

For years, Being a Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant has been a text with a specific emphasis on "need-to-know" skills for nursing assistants in long-term care facilities. Its full-color, extensively illustrated format and accessible reading level make the text particularly appropriate for today's adult learners. Concept themes are reinforced throughout to help students place important concepts into an understandable context. Meeting all required curricula, as outlined by federal regulators, it is the ideal text for certification exam preparation.