Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant, Special Edition

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Exceptionally comprehensive, affordable, and user-friendly, this book emphasizes the nursing assistant's role and responsibilities in today's diverse health care settings. It blends established standards with recent changes in procedures and philosophies, focusing on a holistic, humanistic, restorative approach and cultural awareness. The text is extensively illustrated yet uncluttered, featuring simple language, boxed Procedures and Guidelines, an anatomy and physiology insert, and interactive elements like thought-provoking questions, case studies, and review questions, which are particularly useful for competency test preparation. Key topics include ethical and legal considerations, infection control, safety and accident prevention, first aid and emergency care, communication skills, anatomy and physiology, common health problems, and basic patient needs. Additional sections cover rehabilitation, personal care, vital signs measurement, nutrition, elimination, special care procedures, geriatric and dying patients, dementia, surgical patients, maternal and child health, subacute care, home health aide responsibilities, homemaking skills, and employability skills. This resource is ideal for nursing assistants, home health aides, patient care assistants, ALF caregivers, and LPNs.