Assistants & Aides

• 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 and indicate which procedures are on the CD companion.
• CD icons in the procedures indicate that the skill is included on the CD companion for instant reference.
• 10 new chapters expand coverage of important techniques and disorders so you can provide effective care for the widest range of patients/residents.
• A CD companion makes learning critical procedures exciting with video clips, animations, learning exercises, an audio glossary, and an interactive A&P program.

Now in its ninth edition, this market-leading book continues to prepare the nation's finest nursing assistants in the deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare. To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that illustrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW - Guidelines and Procedures-including Waterless Hand Hygiene and Applying a Condom Catheter. NEW! Rationales for all procedures that help students to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions. NEW! Topics such as SARS precautions and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease. NEW! Charting examples in each procedure that reinforce the importance of documentation. NEW! Tear-Out English-Spanish Clinical Pocket Reference that provides translations of commonly encountered words and phrases to aide in client care. Expanded coverage of infection control and patient restraints. FREE Companion Website provides chapter-specific online resources for both students and instructors including certification review multiple choice questions, case studies, matching exercises, weblinks, a Syllabus Manager, an audio glossary and more. FREE Student CD-ROM provides certification review multiple choice questions and an audio glossary. Nursing assistants in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings as well as those studying to enter into the field.

Updated and expanded to reflect the issues and situations encountered by today's home health aide, this book guides users through all vital aspects of their jobs in a simple, focused manner and teaches them to be efficient, caring members of the health-care team. It encourages critical thinking, situational and reality-based decision making. Written in a conversational style, it covers everything from the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology to corporate compliance, ethnic diversity, patient satisfaction, palliative care, and makes strategic use of easy-to-follow narratives, step-by-step procedures, margin glossary, and many concept-supporting illustrations and photographs throughout with examples from real life situations. Ideal as both a primary learning tool for beginning aides as well as a handy refresher and reference for more experienced workers.