Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Designed for shorter programs of 85 hours or fewer Mosbys Essentials for Nursing Assistants 5th Edition 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. Delegation Guidelines identify the nursing assistants specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks. Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes highlight important considerations for providing safe and effective care while promoting patient comfort. Procedures boxes are divided into step-by-step format with instructions for performing each skill including Quality of Life courtesies Pre-procedure Procedure and Post-Procedure sections to make learning critical skills easier. Focus on PRIDE boxes 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. Quality of Life reminders in the procedure boxes reinforce the simple courtesies that should be afforded to all patients demonstrating how to show respect for the patient as a person. NNAAP in the Procedure Title Baralerts you to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program. Concise coverage of nursing assistant content thatsideal and easy to use in classes with shorter hour requirements. Detailed illustrations offer step-by-step visual guidelines for performing key procedures. NEW! Focus on Surveys boxes with common survey questions emphasize the nursing assistants role in providing safe and effective care. NEW! Focus on Practice boxes at the end of each chapter present short case scenarios with questions so you can consider practical applications for providing patient care. NEW! The Persons Rights chapter highlights the importance of understanding and protecting a patients rights. NEW! Pressure Ulcers chapter familiarizes you with the risk factors of pressure ulcers and the information to identify individuals at risk. NEW! Laminated pocket-sized reference cards 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. NEW! Updated Companion CD 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.