Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach (MindTap Course List)

A longtime favorite among students, Acello/Hegner's NURSING ASSISTANT: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH has prepared more nursing assistants for meaningful careers in acute care, long-term care and home health than any other text. Providing easy-to-understand explanations, the 12th Edition walks you step-by-step through more than 150 procedures, including key skills in patient handling and transfers, wound care, communication, safety and record keeping, as well as special care procedures for patients with medical devices, catheters and physical or mental impairments. Ensuring you have a solid foundation, it also explains essential background information on basic human anatomy, career planning and emerging health care trends. Vibrant color photos and illustrations bring chapter concepts to life, while numerous print and digital study tools help you maximize your course success.

Medical Books

Acello, Barbara

Hegner, Barbara

Allied Health Professions

Cengage Learning'

The student workbook is designed to help you retain key chapter content. This comprehensive resource includes chapter objective questions, key-term definition queries and multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank and true-or-false problems.

Student Workbook for Acello/Hegner's Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach (Cengage: Workbook to Accompany)

This text covers basic patient care skills for assistive personnel in hospitals, long term care facilities, subacute centers, and home health. Written with an emphasis on real-world clinical practice, it provides guidelines for common problems. There is a review at the end of each chapter and a comprehensive 225 question final exam eliminating the need for a separate workbook.

Patient Care: Basic Skills for the Health Care Provider

Delmar/Thomson Learning

This comprehensive self-study book will help prepare the nursing assistant for the state certification examination. It reviews all of the basic skills and procedures that a nursing assistant must know. Study aides include multiple choice questions, situational questions that require critical thinking, and a final exam. The updated version has an expanded section dealing with cultural issues such as religion, death, and grieving, as well as communication skills. This book meets OBRA requirements as a core text for nurse assistant training. Supplements Instructor's Manual 0-7668-1430-0

Competency Exam Preparation and Review for Nursing Assistants

Kast, Barbara

Delmar/Cengage Learning

Covering 112 advanced procedures, this book includes such topics as: respiratory care, infection control, phlebotomy &amp; IV therapy, cardiac care skills, surgical asepsis staples and sutures, wound care, specimens collection, urinary/fecal elimination, enteral feeding, and assisting with blood administration. Supplements Computerized Testbank 0-7668-1439-4 Instructor's Manual 0+-7668-1438-6, 280 pages

Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers

OSHA Guidelines for Compliance in Healthcare Facilities addresses the OSHA standard for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, with emphasis on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis viruses. Procedures OSHA requires for compliance with the standard - engineering controls, general work practices, personal protective clothing/equipment, staff education and training, use of warning signs, and vaccination to prevent hepatitis B - are thoroughly discussed. Other key OSHA requirements such as hazardous communication right to know, the control of hazardous energy, ergonomics, violence in the workplace, medical recordkeeping, and penalties for noncompliance with OSHA rules are also covered.

The OSHA Handbook: The Guidelines For Compliance In Health

Business & Money

Education & Reference

This comprehensive guide assists long term care personnel in complying with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) rules governing long term care facilities. Each section deals with a particular set of OBRA requirements, including an exact copy of each requirement and interpretive guidelines as published in the State Operations Manual of the Health Care Financing Administration. Audit tools facilitate the evaluation of care and services, drawing attention to deficiencies and aiding in the development of an action plan to correct them.

The OBRA Guidelines For Quality Improvement

Administration & Medicine Economics

Prepare for the nursing assistant certification exam with this easy to use quick reference to basic content and care procedures. The review covers the content required to successfully complete the written and manual skills components of the competency evaluation examination. The content guidelines of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA) are outlined in the learning objectives listed at the beginning of each chapter.

Competency Exam Preparation and Review for Nursing Assistant

This comprehensive text provides the content necessary for training nursing assistants to provide restorative care in long-term care facilities, as required by OBRA law. The content includes measurable objectives and interventions to optimize resident care and to enable facilities to gain maximum reimbursement. This text provides all the information necessary to train nursing assistants in restorative care, as well as, the information required to implement a restorative care training program. It enables the necessary training to advance the certified nursing assistant to the restorative nursing assistant level. Thus, facilities to attain the goal of maintaining or improving residents' conditions. The text focuses on techniques to promote resident involvement, thereby improving resident independence and self-esteem. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual ISBN: 0-8273-8142-5 Computerized Testbank ISBN: 0-7668-1433-5

Restorative Care: Fundamentals for the Certified Nursing Assistant

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Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach (MindTap Course List)

Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach (MindTap Course List)

Student Workbook for Acello/Hegner's Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach (Cengage: Workbook to Accompany)

Patient Care: Basic Skills for the Health Care Provider

Competency Exam Preparation and Review for Nursing Assistants

Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers

The OSHA Handbook: The Guidelines For Compliance In Health

The OBRA Guidelines For Quality Improvement

Competency Exam Preparation and Review for Nursing Assistant

Restorative Care: Fundamentals for the Certified Nursing Assistant