Nursing Assistant
Delmar Cengage Learning
978-1-4283-1746-8 (ISBN)
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Learn to become a certified nursing assistant qualified for the acute care, home care, and long-term care settings with the leading textbook in nursing assistant education. This basics edition of NURSING ASSISTANT: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH is your competency-based resource, with over 100 procedures presented in an easy to read, step-by-step format with over 1,000 photos and drawings to illustrate key skills.
Barbara Hegner, MS, RN, Former Professor Emeritus Nursing and Life Science at Long Beach City College in California. Esther Caldwell, MA, PhD, is a Consultant in Vocational Education. Barbara Acello is an independent nurse consultant and educator in Denton, Texas. She is an active, contributing member of the Texas Nurses Association and the American College of Healthcare Administrators, where she was honored with the national Educator of the Year Award in 2007, the Journalism Award in 2009 and the Chair's Award -- the organization's highest honor -- in 2016 for her years of extraordinary service. Stretching across four decades, her nursing career includes work in hospitals, long-term care facilities and home health, with geriatrics as her preferred area of clinical practice. Presently, she is involved with freelance consulting, lecturing and writing. She has written and contributed to many textbooks, journal articles, instructor guides, computerized test banks, quick reference guides, nursing and managerial reference books, online inservices and supplemental instructional materials for health care personnel. Believing that the nursing assistant is the most important caregiver in the health care facility, Acello is committed to improving working conditions, education and professionalism for these vital professionals. She may be contacted at bacello@aol.com.
Section 1: INTRODUCTION TO NURSING ASSISTING.
Unit 1. Community Health Care.
Unit 2. Role of the Nursing Assistant.
Unit 3. Consumer Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care.
Unit 4. Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting the Nursing Assistant.
Section 2: SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.
Unit 5. Medical Terminology and Body Organization.
Unit 6. Classification of Disease.
Section 3 : BASIC HUMAN NEEDS AND COMMUNICATION.
Unit 7. Communication Skills.
Unit 8. Observation, Reporting, and Documentation.
Unit 9. Meeting Basic Human Needs.
Unit 10. Comfort, Pain, Rest, and Sleep.
Unit 11. Developing Cultural Sensitivity.
Section 4 : INFECTION AND INFECTION CONTROL.
Unit 12. Infection.
Unit 13. Infection Control.
Section 5 : SAFETY AND MOBILITY.
Unit 14. Environmental and Nursing Assistant Safety.
Unit 15. Patient Safety and Positioning.
Unit 16. The Patient's Mobility: Transfer Skills.
Unit 17. The Patient's Mobility: Ambulation.
Section 6 : MEASURING AND RECORDING VITAL SIGNS, HEIGHT, AND WEIGHT.
Unit 18. Body Temperature.
Unit 19. Pulse and Respiration.
Unit 20. Blood Pressure.
Unit 21. Measuring Height and Weight.
Section 7 : PATIENT CARE AND COMFORT MEASURES.
Unit 22. Admission, Transfer, and Discharge.
Unit 23. Bedmaking.
Unit 24. Patient Bathing.
Unit 25. General Comfort Measures.
Section 8 : PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION, HYDRATION, AND ELIMINATION.
Unit 26. Urinary Elimination.
Unit 27. Gastrointestinal Elimination.
Unit 28. Nutritional Needs and Diet Modifications.
SECTION 9 : Special Care Procedures.
Unit 29. Caring for the Perioperative Patient.
Unit 30. Caring for the Emotionally Stressed Patient.
Unit 31. Caring for Persons with Cognitive Impairment and Related Conditions.
Unit 32. Caring for the Bariatric Patient.
Unit 33. Caring for the Person who is Dying.
Section 10 : OTHER HEALTH CARE SETTINGS.
Unit 34. The Nursing Assistant in Home Care.
Section 11 : BODY SYSTEMS, COMMON DISORDERS, AND RELATED CARE PROCEDURES.
Unit 35. Caring for Persons with Disorders of the Integumentary System.
Unit 36. Caring for Persons with Cardiopulmonary Disorders.
Unit 37. Caring for Persons with Disorders of the Musculoskeletal and Nervous Systems.
Unit 38. Caring for Persons with Disorders of the Sensory Organs.
Unit 39. Caring for Persons with Disorders of the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems.
Section 12 : EXPANDED ROLE OF THE NURSING ASSISTANT.
Unit 40. Caring for Obstetrical Patients and Neonates.
Unit 41. Rehabilitation and Restorative Services.
Section 13 : RESPONSE TO BASIC EMERGENCIES.
Unit 42. Response to Basic Emergencies.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2009 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Clifton Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 276 mm |
| Gewicht | 1400 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4283-1746-5 / 1428317465 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4283-1746-8 / 9781428317468 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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