introduces the skills and procedures essential for meeting OBRA requirements. This text has already helped thousands of people prepare themselves to become competent nursing assistants.
This text continues to aid instructors in preparing the nation's finest nursing assistants to deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home health settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare.
To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that demonstrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. Accompanied by a wide range of new media, this resource is unsurpassed in providing a total package of learning tools that promote individual success in the classroom, on the certifying exam, and in the clinical setting.
This book describes all procedures that help students to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions with topics such as SARS precautions and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease, charting examples in each procedure that reinforce the importance of documentation. Tear-Out Clinical Pocket Translator provides Spanish translations of commonly encountered words and phrases to help enhance patient care through improved communication.
There is expanded coverage of infection control and patient restraints. Free Companion Website provides chapter-specific online resources for both students and instructors including certification review multiple choice questions, case studies, matching exercises, weblinks, a Syllabus Manager, an audio glossary and more. Student CD-ROM provides certification review multiple choice questions, videos and an audio glossary
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