Nursing Assistant

The best-selling new edition provides the most comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills required for working as a nursing assistant in acute, long-term or home health care settings. Now includes bar codes for accessing procedures, changes in health care delivery as well as latest OSHA regulations.

Over 6,000 instructors shared their ideas for the perfect nursing assistant textbook. Nursing Assistant Care is exactly what you asked for: a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains: beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed chapters organized around learning objectives and written at a low reading level creative methods to teach care and observations, promoting independence, and essential information on preventing abuse and neglect chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking and tests the chapter illnesses and common conditions in one chapter, organized by body system an entire chapter on confusion, dementia, and Alzheimer?s disease up-to-date CPR and emergency care sections a full chapter on mental health and mental illness information on developmental disabilities personal care skills housed within one chapter, as are nursing skills separate chapters for bowel and urinary elimination

Sometimes less is more.This brief new textbook to train nursing assistants teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. Organized around learning objectives, it contains rationales for procedural steps and an emphasis on resident?s rights and passing the certification exam.

This textbook for nursing assistants will prepare students not only to function in the traditional nursing assistant role in nursing homes, hospitals, and home health, but also will prepare students to advance their careers. A nursing assistant student who uses this text will have a firm foundation by which to transition to an LPN and ultimately an RN role. The text offers a compelling art program, a direct, conversational writing style, and an emphasis on professionalism and humanism. A back-of-book CD-ROM includes an audio glossary.

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This is the eBook version of the print title and might not include access to the practice test software that accompanies the print book. Access to the digital edition of the Cram Sheet is available through product registration at Pearson IT Certification, or see the instructions in the back pages of your eBook. CNA Certified Nursing Assistant Exam Cram, Second Edition is the perfect study guide to help you pass the CNA Certified Nursing Assistant exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for every current exam topic and is fully revised to reflect the latest NNAAP test plan. The book presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. Exam Alerts, sidebars, and notes interspersed throughout the text keep you focused on what you need to know. Exam prep questions help you assess your knowledge, and the Cram Sheet tear card is the perfect last-minute review. Covers the critical information you’ll need to know to score higher on your CNA Certified Nursing Assistant exam! · Discover the roles and responsibilities of the nursing assistant to promote health and safety of residents · Review specialized care · Rely on new clinical skills performance checklist