Successful Nursing Assistant Care

Text contains step-by-step procedures and guidelines for providing patient care.

A student-friendly text, Reach for the Stars! The Complete Guide to Successful Nursing Assistant Care reflects Diana Dugans 15 years of experience teaching nursing assistants in community colleges, proprietary schools, and long-term care facilities. This comprehensive 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. This book emphasizes safety, privacy, and respect before and after providing care. Organized around learning objectives, it contains creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, essential information on preventing abuse and neglect, and chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, encourages research, and organizes study tasks as well as tests the chapter.

This workbook contains review questions, puzzles, and exercies for each chapter in the related textbook. It also contains procedure checklists and a practice exam.

This workbook contains review questions, puzzles, and exercies for each chapter in the related textbook. It also contains procedure checklists and a practice exam.

Revised and updated to reflect today’s changing healthcare practice, Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 5th edition, streamlines the path to success as a nursing assistant by detailing the foundational concepts and facts needed to competently and compassionately function in a long-term care facility, acute care facility, or home health agency. A concise, conversational approach makes key information accessible, and it is bolstered by helpful step-by-step guides through commonly performed procedures. These features ready students for challenges that nursing assistants might encounter in clinical practice.

The 6th edition of this comprehensive nursing assistant training textbook is organized by body system, which gives students a context for learning. Here is important information about the latest edition:?Chapters are organized around body systems (structure and function, normal changes of aging, and common diseases and related care are grouped together).?Chapter review sections contain multiple choice questions, along with short answer questions.?The concept of person-centered care is reinforced throughout the book. ?This edition contains new information about the following diseases and disorders: COVID-19, migraines and cluster headaches, more types of cancers, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metabolic syndrome, varicose veins, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD), as well as expanded and reorganized mental health disorder coverage.?We added additional electronic documentation guidelines. ?We included new information on topics including testing (albumin/protein, CT calcium score, point-of-care testing [POCT], and continuous glucose monitoring [CGM] systems); medical devices (stents, Holter monitors, nebulizers); and patient care/treatments (cochlear implants, targeted therapy, and information from the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Institute (IDDSI) on thickened liquids and texture modified foods).. ?There is a hardback version of this book.

A comprehensive nursing assistant training textbook which includes information on long-term care, multiple chapters on home health care, and material on subacute and acute care. In addition it includes in-depth information on resident and client rights with sidebars that teach ways to promote independence and prevent abuse and neglect; a discussion of culture change; infection prevention; anatomy and physiology with an emphasis on normal changes of aging; updated nutrition information on MyPyramid, special diets, and feeding techniques; current information on legal issues, such as HIPAA and the Patient Self-Determination Act; 7 chapters on home health care, including information on medications, safety, infection prevention, mothers & newborns, and meal planning and preparation; a chapter containing subacute and acute care information, including pre- and post-operative care, as well as mechanical ventilation, chest tubes, and artificial airways.