Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

<p>Designed for shorter programs of 85 hours or fewer, <b>Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants<i>, 5</i>th Edition</b> provides coverage of the concepts and skills that are essential to becoming a nursing assistant. With focus on quality of life in the patient/person and self-pride in the nursing assistant this concise text emphasizes the importance of treating residents with respect while providing safe, competent, and efficient care.</p><ul><b><i><li>Delegation Guidelines</b></i> identify the nursing assistant's specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.</li><li><b><i>Promoting Safety and Comfort</i> boxes</b> highlight important considerations for providing safe and effective care while promoting patient comfort.</li><li><b><i>Procedures</i> boxes </b>are divided into step-by-step format with instructions for performing each skill, including <i>Quality of Life</i> courtesies, <i>Pre-procedure</i>, <i>Procedure</i>, and <i>Post-Procedure</i> sections to make learning critical skills easier.</li><li><b><i>Focus on PRIDE</i> boxes </b>highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws, encouraging you to promote pride in the person, family, and yourself<b>.</b></li><li><b><i>Quality of Life</i> reminders in the procedure boxes </b>reinforce the simple courtesies that should be afforded to all patients, demonstrating how to show respect for the patient as a person.</li><li><b>NNAAP in the <i>Procedure Title Bar</i> </b>alerts you to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program.</li><li><b>Concise coverage of nursing assistant content </b>that€s<b> </b>ideal and easy to use in classes with shorter hour requirements.</li><li><b>Detailed illustrations </b>offer step-by-step visual guidelines for performing key procedures.</li></ul><ul><b><li>NEW! <i>Focus on Surveys</i> boxes with common survey questions </b>emphasize the nursing assistant's role in providing safe and effective care.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>Focus on Practice</i> boxes at the end of each chapter </b>present short case scenarios with questions so you can consider practical applications for providing patient care.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>The Person€s Rights</b></i> <b>chapter</b> highlights the importance of understanding and protecting a patient€s rights. </li><li><b>NEW! <i>Pressure Ulcers</i> chapter </b>familiarizes you with the risk factors of pressure ulcers and the information to identify individuals at risk.</li><li><b>NEW! Laminated, pocket-sized reference cards</b> include information on vital signs, measurement conversions, range-of-motion, abbreviations, positioning, and the 24-hour clock for easy access to information critical in providing safe and effective care.</li><li><b>NEW! Updated Companion CD</b> has 28 procedures, including 3 new procedures, containing interactive learning exercises, an updated audio glossary, a new Spanish audio glossary, and Body Spectrum (an anatomy and physiology program) providing you with additional tools for independent learning that reinforces textbook content.</li></ul>