Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Hard Cover Version

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Hard Cover Version

<p>Master the essential skills of today’s nursing assistant!<b> Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th Edition</b> prepares you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings. Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easy-to-read, visual approach, this book includes step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures. New to this edition is a practice scenario in each chapter to help you develop problem solving and critical thinking skills, as well as <i>Focus on Math</i> boxes that highlight common calculations done on the job. Written by well-known educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication ― two elements critical to being an effective nursing assistant.</p><ul><b><li>Complete coverage</b> includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant.</li><li><b>Guidelines to over 100 procedures</b> are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.</li><li><b>A clear, readable writing style</b> is supplemented with more than 1,000 full-color photographs and illustrations.</li><li><b>Key terms and abbreviations</b> are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book. </li><li><b>Review questions</b> in each chapter are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and preparing for a test or the competency evaluation.</li><li><b>Video icons</b> indicate skills for which video is provided on the free Evolve companion website or in <i>Mosby’s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 4.0<i> (sold separately).</i></i></li><li><i><i></i></i><b>Summary boxes</b> highlight key aspects of patient care including safety and comfort, long-term care, home care, personal pride, the needs of children and older persons, cultural considerations, communication guidelines, delegated tasks, teamwork, and time management.</li><li><i><i><b>Focus on PRIDE</b></i></i> <b>boxes</b> highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, the family, and yourself.</li><li><b>The Workbook and <i>Competency Evaluation Review</i> </b>corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for every procedure in the textbook. The <i>Competency Evaluation Review</i> includes a content review, skills evaluation review, and two practice exams to prepare students for their certification exam. <i>Sold separately.</i></li><li><i><i><b>Promoting Safety and Comfort</b></i></i> <b>boxes</b> detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care.</li><li><i><i><b>Focus on Long-Term Care </b></i><b>and<i> Focus on Home Care</i></b></i> <b>boxes</b> highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings.</li><li><i><i><b>Focus on Children </b></i><b>and<i> Focus on Older Person</i></b></i> <b>boxes</b> provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.</li><li><i><i><b>Caring About Culture</b></i></i> <b>boxes</b> help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care.</li><li><i><i><b>Focus on Communication</b></i></i> <b>boxes</b> provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team.</li><li><i><i><b>Teamwork </b></i><b>and<i> Time Management</i></b></i> <b>boxes </b>cite ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members.</li><li><i><i><b>Delegation Guidelines</b></i></i> identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>NEW</b> <b><i>Getting a Job</i> chapter</b> describes the professional skills needed for seeking and landing a new job upon certification. </li><li><b>NEW</b> <b><i>Delegation</i> chapter</b> explains how nursing assistants work within the health care team and receive instructions from the nurse, and includes tips on questions to ask when receiving delegated tasks. </li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b><i>Focus on Math</b></i> highlights the basic math skills you need as a nursing assistant.</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b><i>Focus on Practice</b></i>: <b><i>Problem Solving </b></i>includes scenarios that develop your critical thinking skills in common situations encountered during practice.</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b>NATCEP skills</b> are identified as skills most often required for demonstration on state certification exams.</li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b><i>Focus on Surveys</i> feature</b> highlights the nursing assistant’s role during state inspections. </li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b><i>Focus on PRIDE</b></i> <b>application questions</b> promote pride in the nursing assistant, the person, and the person’s family.</li><li><b>UPDATED</b> <b>video clips</b> from the latest <i>Nursing Assistant Video Skills</i> series demonstrate selected skills. <b></b></li><li><b>UPDATED <i>Body Spectrum</i> interactive anatomy review</b> is available on the Evolve companion website. </li> </ul>