Nursing

For Nursing Assistants working in every care environment (hospitals, nursing facilities & homes).

This exceptionally comprehensive, affordable, and student-friendly nursing assistant text is designed to stand alone without the need for a student workbook. Extensively illustrated—yet uncluttered—it features simple language and thought-provoking, interactive exercise material to draw students into the text and keep them engaged throughout. The text focuses on health care as it is being practiced today in diverse areas of the health care delivery system—incorporating both tried-and-true standards and recent changes in procedures and philosophies. Throughout, a holistic, humanistic approach and restorative focus serve as a unifying element, and an emphasis on cultural awareness helps students develop effective communication skills for today's multicultural world. This is a 1 color, no-frills revision and less expensive!

• NEW - A clean, crisp, uncluttered look.

  • Allows students to better focus and concentrate on content without being distracted.

• NEW - A chapter on “Employability Skills”.

  • Gives students the information they need to get a job and keep it.

• NEW - A chapter on “Surveys and Accreditation.”

  • Provides guidelines to help students understand how the survey process helps to ensure quality patient care, and facilities get surveyed and accredited.

• NEW - Content—e.g., end-of-life issues; pain control; workplace violence; unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP); hepatitis C; defibrillators; emerging infectious diseases (mad cow disease, E-Coli, Lyme disease, MRSA).

  • Provides up-to-date information for students to apply to clinicals and employment.

• NEW - Expanded/updated content—e.g., infection control, CPR, hepatitis, HIV, communication, emergency care (including the latest recommendations by The American Heart Association); computers; and nursing assistant education and training based on OBRA guidelines.

  • Provides up-to-date information for students to apply to clinicals and employment.

• NEW - Content reorganization—Combines introductory material into a single chapter on “The Role of the Nursing Assistant;” moves content on rehabilitation and restorative care to a later unit on Holistic Nursing; and combines coverage of observation, reporting, and recording with medical terminology into a new chapter on “Communicating with Coworkers.”

  • Streamlining and combining of topics facilitates students memorization and understanding.

• NEW - Increased emphasis on cultural awareness—Includes interpersonal relationships, with specific communication guidelines.

  • Prepares students to communicate more effectively in today's multicultural environment.

• NEW - 10 boxed Procedures and 35 boxed Guidelines.

  • Provides more easy to follow directions, increasing the assistant's repertoire of workplace skills, enhancing employability.

• NEW - Exciting chapter-end interactive exercises—Features thought-provoking fill-in-the blank questions (Review), key points to remember (Remember), case studies (Reflect), and multiple-choice questions (Respond).

  • Helps students review glossary or vocabulary terms; remember the key issues; reflect on the issues and use the information they have learned; and evaluate their comprehension and develop test-taking skills—especially useful for preparing for state competency tests.

• An accessible writing style.

  • Uses simple language that can be adapted to a variety of learning skills and styles.

• A holistic, humanistic, and restorative approach—Interweaves specific guidelines throughout.

  • Encourages students to focus on the individual patient and to promote patient independence.

• Emphasis on cultural diversity—And how it affects patient care.

  • Increases students' awareness of cultural diversity and identifies ways to deal with cultural differences.

• Specific chapter objectives—Each chapter opens with concise, measurable objectives, which are also often identified in headings and subheadings throughout the chapter.

  • Keeps students focused on the essential material as they study and review a chapter.

• Chapter and comprehensive glossaries—Lists and defines vocabulary terms and medical terminology at the beginning of each chapter, and at the end of the text. Additionally, terms are printed in italics in the text to make them easier to identify, and the definition is provided in the same sentence.

  • Helps students develop the professional vocabulary needed to communicate effectively on the job.

• Boxed and illustrated Procedures and Guidelines —Procedures contain simple directions (with beginning and ending steps separated from the body of the procedure). Contains a List of Procedures and a List of Guidelines to help students easily locate a specific procedure/guideline.

  • Provides students with a convenient learning and reference tool.

• Clear artwork and photos of procedures.

  • Helps students better visualize each step in a procedure.

• An anatomy and physiology insert.

  • Provided for students and instructors who want more detailed information.

• A clean, crisp, uncluttered look.

  • Allows students to better focus and concentrate on content without being distracted.

• A chapter on “Employability Skills”.

  • Gives students the information they need to get a job and keep it.

• A chapter on “Surveys and Accreditation.”

  • Provides guidelines to help students understand how the survey process helps to ensure quality patient care, and facilities get surveyed and accredited.

• Content—e.g., end-of-life issues; pain control; workplace violence; unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP); hepatitis C; defibrillators; emerging infectious diseases (mad cow disease, E-Coli, Lyme disease, MRSA).

  • Provides up-to-date information for students to apply to clinicals and employment.

• Expanded/updated content—e.g., infection control, CPR, hepatitis, HIV, communication, emergency care (including the latest recommendations by The American Heart Association); computers; and nursing assistant education and training based on OBRA guidelines.

  • Provides up-to-date information for students to apply to clinicals and employment.

• Content reorganization—Combines introductory material into a single chapter on “The Role of the Nursing Assistant;” moves content on rehabilitation and restorative care to a later unit on Holistic Nursing; and combines coverage of observation, reporting, and recording with medical terminology into a new chapter on “Communicating with Coworkers.”

  • Streamlining and combining of topics facilitates students memorization and understanding.

• Increased emphasis on cultural awareness—Includes interpersonal relationships, with specific communication guidelines.

  • Prepares students to communicate more effectively in today's multicultural environment.

• 10 boxed Procedures and 35 boxed Guidelines.

  • Provides more easy to follow directions, increasing the assistant's repertoire of workplace skills, enhancing employability.

• Exciting chapter-end interactive exercises—Features thought-provoking fill-in-the blank questions (Review), key points to remember (Remember), case studies (Reflect), and multiple-choice questions (Respond).

  • Helps students review glossary or vocabulary terms; remember the key issues; reflect on the issues and use the information they have learned; and evaluate their comprehension and develop test-taking skills—especially useful for preparing for state competency tests.

I. THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM.

II. PROVIDING A SECURE ENVIRONMENT.

III. DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

IV. HOLISTIC NURSING.

V. THE PATIENT'S ENVIRONMENT.

VI. PROVIDING BASIC CARE.

VII. SPECIAL NEEDS.

VIII. HOME HEALTH.

IX. MAINTAINING QUALITY CARE AND EMPLOYMENT NEEDS.

Nursing Assistant [CORE TEXTS] (Nursing Assistant)

Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant
Special Edition Peggy A. Grubbs, RN, BSN

Emphasizing a restorative, holistic approach, the Second Edition of Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant continues to detail the role of the nursing assistant in the delivery of quality care across all health care systems - acute, subacute, long-term and home. The focus is on meeting the needs of the whole person - both physically and phychosocially. Combining comprehensive information, with visual reinforcement, and numerous chapter exercises, it is a complete resource for any nursing assisting course.

Features:

• Special Edition refers to our new straightforward design and highly affordable package.
• New, lengthier, end-of-chapter exercises including fill-in-the-blank, key points, a case study, and multiple choice questions.
• New Chapter - Employability Skills highlights career management, job hunting and job retention.
• New Chapter - Surveys and Accreditation details regulatory agencies and standards of care.
• Increased emphasis on cultural awareness.
• Chapter opening objectives and key terms for each chapter.
• Interpersonal relationships are discussed with specific communication guidelines.

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