This comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook includes a wide variety of exercises to enhance learning and hold students' interest, such as checklists for the textbook procedures, Independent Learning Activities, and questions for each of the videos in Mosby's Nursing Assistant Skills Videos Series. Optional Learning Exercises are provided for longer programs or higher-level students.

Mosby's Workbook for Nursing Assistants

Medical Books

Remmert MS RN, Leighann

Sorrentino PhD RN, Sheila A.

Nursing

Mosby

This comprehensive workbook is keyed to the text and provides numerous exercises and questions to help students reinforce learning. Procedure checklists are included as well as questions for the Mosby's Nurse Assisting Video Series. New to this edition is a Competency Review section that will help students prepare for the certification exam.

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Allied Health Professions

Ideal for shorter, more focused courses, this concise text provides coverage of the concepts and skills that are essential for becoming a nursing assistant. It clearly and logically presents the responsibilities of the nursing assistant in a readable, highly visual format that appeals to learners of all levels.
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<li>Written at a clear, readable 7th grade reading level.</li>
<li>More than 500 full-color illustrations highlight key concepts and procedures providing a clear, visual explanation of concepts and actions.</li>
<li>Covers over 75 procedures, divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.</li>
<li>Chapter Review Questions at the end of each chapter help readers reinforce and evaluate what they've learned.</li>
<li>Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help readers learn about the practices and beliefs of other cultures.</li>
<li>Persons with Dementia boxes outline special factors to consider when caring for persons with dementia.</li>
<li>NNAAP in select procedure title bars alerts readers to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM, bound in the text, includes 25 procedures with corresponding video clips &amp; exercises, an audio glossary, and Body Spectrum - an electronic anatomy coloring book.</li>
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<li>Focus On the Pride boxes emphasize Personal and professional responsibility, Rights and respect, Independence and social interaction, Delegation and teamwork, and Ethics and Laws providing a convenient overview of key elements of the nursing assistant’s responsibilities in providing competent patient care, and reminds readers that this caregiver role is one they can take pride in performing.</li>
<li>Focus on Communication boxes includes guidelines for how to communicate most clearly to residents/patients and how to avoid making them feel uncomfortable emphasizing the importance of good communication while providing practical tips.</li>
<li>Key Abbreviations are now listed at the beginning of each chapter to help familiarize readers with commonly used abbreviations.</li>
<li>Includes three new chapters on Preventing Falls; Safely Handling, Moving, and Transferring the Person; and Mental Health Problems.</li>
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Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Gorek RNC GNP MA NHA BS, Bernie

With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of the patient or resident as a person, communication, safety, comfort, effective delegation, and teamwork and time management. This edition provides expanded content on the person's rights and pressure ulcers. The updated companion CD includes three new procedures, an updated audio glossary, and more. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants makes nurse assisting easy to learn.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of the patient or resident as a person, communication, safety, comfort, effective delegation, and teamwork and time management. This edition provides expanded content on the person’s rights and pressure ulcers. The updated companion CD includes three new procedures, an updated audio glossary, and more. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants makes nurse assisting easy to learn.
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Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant.</li>
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A clear, readable writing style is supplemented with hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations.</li>
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Over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.</li>
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Skills on the NNAAP® exam are highlighted throughout and have been updated to match the 2012 test plan.</li>
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Delegation Guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.</li>
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Teamwork and Time Management boxes indicate ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members.</li>
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Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care.</li>
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Caring About Culture boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care.</li>
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Focus on Children and Older Persons boxes provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.</li>
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Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings.</li>
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Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team.</li>
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Key abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book. </li>
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Key terms introduce chapter content with the important words and phrases.</li>
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Chapter Review Questions are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and studying for a test or the competency evaluation.</li>
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CD icons indicate skills included on the companion CD.</li>
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Video clip icons indicate skills for which video clips are included on the free Evolve companion website.</li>
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Video icons indicate skills included in the Mosby’s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 3.0 DVDs (sold separately).
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The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises and activities that challenge you to remember what you’ve learned. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for each procedure in the textbook. The Competency Evaluation Review includes content review, skills evaluation review, and two practice exams. Sold separately.
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NEW! The Person’s Rights andPressure Ulcers chapters provides expanded information on these key areas.</li>
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NEW Focus on PRIDE boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, family, and yourself.</li>
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Two laminated, pocket-sized cards include information on normal vital signs, common measurement conversions, positioning, the 24-hour clock, and abdominal and lateral regions.</li>
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Updated companion CDcontains interactive procedures, including three new procedures, learning exercises, an updated audio glossary, and a new Spanish audio glossary with phrases and terms. An updated A&amp;P review, Body Spectrum, is available on the CD and on the Evolve companion website.</li> </ul>

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Hard Cover Version

Get the most out of Sorrentino's Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, and prepare for your certification exam! This chapter-by-chapter workbook and competency evaluation review reinforces your understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises and activities. It includes over 100 checklists -- one for every procedure in the text. The competency evaluation review helps you prepare for the certification exam with content review, skills evaluation review, and practice exams.
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Comprehensive coverage corresponds chapter-by-chapter to the textbook.</li> <li>
A wide variety of exercises enhances learning and keeps you interested.</li> <li>
Over 100 procedure checklists allow step-by-step review of each procedure and for instructor and/or self-evaluation.</li> <li>
Optional learning exercises are provided for longer programs and/or higher-level students.</li> <li>
Independent learning activities in every chapter allow additional review and practice.</li> <li>
Competency evaluation review section includes content review and review questions for all key topics as well as two practice exams that help to prepare you for the written certification exam; the skills evaluation review helps you practice the procedures you may be required to perform for certification.</li> </ul>

Kelly RN BSN MSN, Relda T.

This money-saving package includes the 8th edition of Sorrentino's Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Textbook and Workbook.

A comprehensive approach to nurse assisting provides complete coverage of all skills needed in a single resource.The clear, engaging, 7th grade writing style enhances comprehension.Nearly 1,000 full-color photographs and illustrations visually reinforce concepts and make content easier to understand.Over 100 procedures guide you step-by-step through essential skills, with complicated tasks presented in manageable segments for easier learning.Caring About Culture boxes help you provide care in a manner sensitive to the beliefs and customs of a variety of diverse cultures.Delegation guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for ensuring safe, effective patient care.Focus On... boxes address the special needs of children, older persons, long-term care residents, and home care patients.Charting examples demonstrate the proper methods for accurately recording patient information and data.An appendix on Spanish health care terminology provides information needed to communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and broadens the scope of your caring abilities.Chapter Review Questions assess your understanding and identify subjects requiring further study.The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review, sold separately, enhances your learning with engaging activities, procedure checklists, and a competency review with questions, two practice exams plus a skills review that prepare you for certification.Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help you work most efficiently.Focus on Communication boxes present practical tips for communicating clearly and effectively with residents and patients.Key Abbreviations in each chapter familiarize you with abbreviations common to your daily communication.Focus on Ethics and Laws boxes include real-life examples that help you understand the ethical and legal considerations of practice.Boxes at the beginning of each chapter list procedures in the chapter 10 new chapters expand coverage of important techniques and disorders so you can provide effective care for the widest range of patients/residents.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Designed for shorter programs of 85 hours or fewer, Mosby's 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.
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<li>Delegation Guidelines</li> identify the nursing assistant's specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.<li>
Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes highlight important considerations for providing safe and effective care while promoting patient comfort.</li>
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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.</li>
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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.
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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.</li>
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NNAAP in the Procedure Title Bar alerts you to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program.</li>
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Concise coverage of nursing assistant content that’sideal and easy to use in classes with shorter hour requirements.</li>
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Detailed illustrations offer step-by-step visual guidelines for performing key procedures.</li>
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<li>NEW! Focus on Surveys boxes with common survey questions </li>emphasize the nursing assistant's role in providing safe and effective care.<li>
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.</li>
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NEW! The Person’s Rights chapter highlights the importance of understanding and protecting a patient’s rights. </li>
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NEW! Pressure Ulcers chapter familiarizes you with the risk factors of pressure ulcers and the information to identify individuals at risk.</li>
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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.</li>
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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.</li>
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Written at a clear, readable 7th grade reading level.More than 500 full-color illustrations highlight key concepts and procedures providing a clear, visual explanation of concepts and actions.Covers over 75 procedures, divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.Chapter Review Questions at the end of each chapter help readers reinforce and evaluate what they've learned.Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help readers learn about the practices and beliefs of other cultures.Persons with Dementia boxes outline special factors to consider when caring for persons with dementia.NNAAP in select procedure title bars alerts readers to skills that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program.UNIQUE! Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM, bound in the text, includes 25 procedures with corresponding video clips & exercises, an audio glossary, and Body Spectrum - an electronic anatomy coloring book.Focus On the Pride boxes emphasize Personal and professional responsibility, Rights and respect, Independence and social interaction, Delegation and teamwork, and Ethics and Laws providing a convenient overview of key elements of the nursing assistant’s responsibilities in providing competent patient care, and reminds readers that this caregiver role is one they can take pride in performing.Focus on Communication boxes includes guidelines for how to communicate most clearly to residents/patients and how to avoid making them feel uncomfortable emphasizing the importance of good communication while providing practical tips.Key Abbreviations are now listed at the beginning of each chapter to help familiarize readers with commonly used abbreviations.Includes three new chapters on Preventing Falls; Safely Handling, Moving, and Transferring the Person; and Mental Health Problems.

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Mosby's Workbook for Nursing Assistants

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Hard Cover Version

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)