Mosby's Textbook for Long-term Care AssistantsThis popular text provides complete coverage of the knowledge and skills nursing assistants need to work in a long-term care facility. The concise, readable, highly visual format appeals to learners of all levels. The clear, logical presentation of procedures, with hundreds of large, full-color photos and drawings, makes it easy for students to learn and understand. This new edition addresses the expanding role of the nursing assistant in long-term care, providing additional coverage of assisted living, restraint alternatives, transfers, wound care, elderly abuse, and restorative nursing.
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Contents
The Nursing Assistant | 19 |
Work Ethics | 39 |
Communicating With | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Address the person asepsis assignment sheet bath blanket bedpan blood pressure bowel breathing catheter cause chair Chapter clean crobes Decontaminate your hands dementia dentures disease drainage dressing drugs dysphagia enema entering the person's equipment fecal impaction feces fluid Follow Delegation Guidelines gloves health team Help the person ID bracelet incontinence infection injury Knock before entering light within reach linens Lower the bed measures microbes move muscle NNAAP nursing assistants nursing center nursing process OBRA occur older persons oral hygiene oxygen pain person by name person's room Address Place the signal Posey Co Position the person POST-PROCEDURE Practice hand hygiene PRE-PROCEDURE 1 Follow pressure ulcers prevent problems protect Provide for privacy pulse rectum Remove Report and record residents restraint risk Safety Alert side signal light skin sleep specimen stoma Subacute Care temperature tion tissue title PRE-PROCEDURE toilet towel tube urinary urine wheelchair wound