This exceptionally comprehensive, affordable, and student-friendly nursing assistant text is designed to stand alone without the need for a student workbook. Extensively illustrated—yet uncluttered—it features simple language and thought-provoking, interactive exercise material to draw students into the text and keep them engaged throughout.
The text focuses on health care as it is being practiced today in diverse areas of the health care delivery system—incorporating both tried-and-true standards and recent changes in procedures and philosophies. Throughout, a holistic, humanistic approach and restorative focus serve as a unifying element, and an emphasis on cultural awareness helps students develop effective communication skills for today's multicultural world.
Features include:
A chapter on "Employability Skills”
Gives students the information they need to get a job and keep it.
A chapter on "Surveys and Accreditation”
Provides guidelines to help students understand how the survey process helps to ensure quality patient care, and facilities get surveyed and accredited.
New Content
End-of-life issues; pain control; workplace violence; unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP); hepatitis C; defibrillators; emerging infectious diseases (mad cow disease, E-Coli, Lyme disease, MRSA). Provides up-to-date information for students to apply to clinicals and employment. Also covers infection control, CPR, hepatitis, HIV, communication, emergency care (including the latest recommendations by The American Heart Association); computers; and nursing assistant education and training based on OBRA guidelines.
Increased emphasis on cultural awareness
Includes interpersonal relationships, with specific communication guidelines. Prepares students to communicate more effectively in today's multicultural environment.
10 boxed Procedures and 35 boxed Guidelines
Provides more easy to follow directions, increasing the assistant's repertoire of workplace skills, enhancing employability.
Exciting chapter-end interactive exercises
Features thought-provoking fill-in-the blank questions (Review), key points to remember (Remember), case studies (Reflect), and multiple-choice questions (Respond). Helps students review glossary or vocabulary terms; remember the key issues; reflect on the issues and use the information they have learned; and evaluate their comprehension and develop test-taking skills—especially useful for preparing for state competency tests.
An accessible writing style
Uses simple language that can be adapted to a variety of learning skills and styles.
A holistic, humanistic, and restorative approach
Interweaves specific guidelines throughout. Encourages students to focus on the individual patient and to promote patient independence.
Emphasis on cultural diversity
And how it affects patient care. Increases students' awareness of cultural diversity and identifies ways to deal with cultural differences.
Specific chapter objectives
Each chapter opens with concise, measurable objectives, which are also often identified in headings and subheadings throughout the chapter. Keeps students focused on the essential material as they study and review a chapter.
Chapter and comprehensive glossaries
Lists and defines vocabulary terms and medical terminology at the beginning of each chapter, and at the end of the text. Additionally, terms are printed in italics in the text to make them easier to identify, and the definition is provided in the same sentence.
Helps students develop the professional vocabulary needed to communicate effectively on the job.
Clear artwork and photos of procedures
Helps students better visualize each step in a procedure.
An anatomy and physiology insert
Provided for students and instructors who want more detailed information.
