Nursing Home Care

Comprehensive in scope, yet easy to read, this trusted resource is all you need to prepare for success in nurse assisting. This engaging text highlights the teamwork and communication vital to your role on the nursing team while detailing over 100 skills you need to provide safe, effective care.

• 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.

Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Second Edition is a comprehensive and student-accessible text that offers a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. The framework for the text is built around the Core Competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Building upon their knowledge in prior medical surgical courses, this text gives students the skills and theory needed to provide outstanding care for the growing elderly population. This innovative text is the first of its kind to have over 40 contributing authors from many different disciplines. Some of the key features of the text include chapter outlines, learning objectives, discussion questions, personal reflection boxes, case studies and more!

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.

• 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.

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.

The All-Weather Friend’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease is an answer to the isolation many dementia patients and caregivers face when friends and loved ones don't know how to help. In a clear, sympathetic voice, Dr. Mary Cail explains how to be an All-Weather Friend, instead of a fair-weather friend. Meant to be read quickly and then used as a pocket guide, the book contains specific tips on how to be helpful, sample dialogues for difficult conversations, and the real-life voices of patients and caregivers. Dr. Cail puts complex psychological issues into everyday language to help you make the most of your relationship with an AD patient or caregiver from the beginning through the late stage. You’ll learn step-by-step how to avoid the unintentional hurts and slights that can undermine friendship and add to the stress of an already difficult situation. Whether your relationship is with a friend, relative, neighbor or colleague, you’ll be ready to reach out with compassion and confidence.

Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings either. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the writings of the founder of modern day nursing. Notes on Nursing would be an excellent choice. This book introduces holistic health, home health, alternative therapies, health prevention and maintenance, the role of women in nursing and in everyday life, nursing administration, leadership, communications skills, mind/body and body/mind relationships. Her theory on the use of light, fresh air, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet is also well explored. - Anita S. Kessler, R.N., M.S.N., M.Ed.

Features chapter by chapter review of all content areas including anatomy & physiology, health history, exam techniques & key terminology. Also includes hundreds of review questions, case studies, critical thinking questions & learning activities.

Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care, 2nd Edition

The second edition of one of our best-selling nursing assistant training textbook (formerly known as Nursing Assistant Care) includes information on long-term care and some material on subacute and acute care. This edition of the textbook contains:

- In-depth information on residents' rights and special boxes throughout that teach ways to promote independence and prevent abuse and neglect
- New information on culture change
- Up-to-date, comprehensive material on infection prevention
- Material on anatomy and physiology with an emphasis on normal changes of aging and observing and reporting
- Updated nutrition information on MyPyramid, special diets, and feeding techniques
- Current information on legal issues, such as HIPAA and the Patient Self-Determination Act
- 1 chapter containing subacute and acute care information, including pre- and post-operative care, as well as mechanical ventilation, chest tubes, and artificial airways
- Chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter
- A table of procedures, common abbreviations list, a special appendix with a math review, and a glossary

Handbook of Home Health Standards: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement includes everything the home care nurse needs to provide quality care and effectively document care based on accepted professional standards. This handbook offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines including ICD-9-CM (diagnostic) codes, OASIS considerations, service skills (including the skills of the multidisciplinary health care team), factors justifying homebound status, interdisciplinary goals and outcomes, reimbursement, and resources for practice and education. The fifth edition of this "little red book" has been updated to include new information from the most recently revised Federal Register Final Rule and up-to-date coding. All information in this handbook has been thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated.