Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants

Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants
Author: Pamela Carter
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1975109619

This combined text and workbook builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. The tasks nursing assistants in advanced settings are expected to perform vary greatly in health care settings across the nation. Even if nursing assistants are not allowed to perform tasks independently, they are often expected to understand the care provided and assistant other members of the health care team. The spirit of “lifelong learning” is at the heart of this text, which has been written in a way to inspire nursing assistants to set goals for career advancement and reach them.

Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers

Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers
Author: Barbara Acello
Publisher: Delmar Pub
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781418001339

This book was written to prepare the nursing assistant or patient care technician to provide advanced patient care procedures. The book includes content on sterile procedures, including preparing and working with a sterile field, using sterile technique, and performing sterile dressing changes, wet to dry dressings. Venipuncture technique is covered in several chapters as well as intravenous procedures and many other advanced skills. The importance of reporting information and observations to the licensed supervisor is emphasized throughout the book. To this end, most chapters contain special text boxes listing observations to be reported and recorded. Added highlights within the text narrative include safety and infection control alerts, and age related information; information that is important to the student and in keeping with the latest health care trends.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Soft Cover Version

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Soft Cover Version
Author: Sheila A. Sorrentino
Publisher: Mosby
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780323655606

With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, "Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition" makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of the patient or resident as a person, communication, safety, comfort, effective delegation, and teamwork and time management. This edition provides expanded content on the person's rights and pressure ulcers. The updated companion CD includes three new procedures, an updated audio glossary, and more. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, "Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants" makes nurse assisting easy to learn. Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant; -- A clear, readable writing style is supplemented with hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations; -- Over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning; -- Skills on the NNAAP exam are highlighted throughout and have been updated to match the 2012 test plan; -- Delegation Guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks; -- Teamwork and Time Management boxes indicate ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members; -- Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care; -- Caring About Culture boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care; -- Focus on Children and Older Persons boxes provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons; -- Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings; -- Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team; -- Key abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book; -- Key terms introduce chapter content with the important words and phrases; -- Chapter Review Questions are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and studying for a test or the competency evaluation; -- CD icons indicate skills included on the companion CD; -- Video clip icons indicate skills for which video clips are included on the free Evolve companion website; -- Video icons indicate skills included in the Mosby's Nursing Assistant Video Skills 3.0 DVDs (sold separately); -- The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises and activities that challenge you to remember what you've learned. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for each procedure in the textbook. NEW! The Person's Rights and Pressure Ulcers chapters provides expanded information on these key areas; -- NEW Focus on PRIDE boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, family, and yourself; -- Two laminated, pocket-sized cards include information on normal vital signs, common measurement conversions, positioning, the 24-hour clock, and abdominal and lateral regions; -- Updated companion CD contains interactive procedures, including three new procedures, learning exercises, an updated audio glossary, and a new Spanish audio glossary with phrases and terms. An updated A&P review, Body Spectrum, is available on the CD and on the Evolve companion website.

Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants

Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants
Author: Francie Wolgin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Care of the sick
ISBN: 9780131779853

This resource specifically addresses the need for nurse assistants to be versatile, flexible, and multi-skilled caregivers. It facilitates the acquisition and development of additional patient care skills that can be performed in a variety of healthcare settings. Includes over 4 dozen advanced skills and procedures including urinary catheterization, staple and suture removal, tracheostomy care, enteral nutrition administration, and neurological function observation. Step-by-step instructions walk learners through each skill with a description of its purpose, objectives, key terms, and necessary supplies and equipment. Emphasizes age-specific considerations throughout. Promotes personal and professional growth and job satisfaction. Nursing Assistant students.

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners
Author: Zoë Rawles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351605070

This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession. This book: • equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible; • provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards and the Care Certificate; • includes new chapters on administering injections, ear irrigation and examining the feet of people with diabetes, and an entirely rewritten chapter on protocols; • addresses the evolving role of the healthcare assistant and training opportunities; • supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings, with an emphasis on primary care; • covers accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection; and • uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding. This is an indispensable guide for all those training as healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, and an introductory textbook for students embarking on nursing and health and social care programmes.

Pearson's Nursing Assistant Today

Pearson's Nursing Assistant Today
Author: Francie Wolgin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Nurses' aides
ISBN: 9780135064429

For nursing assistant courses in any venue or institution, including high schools, community colleges, technical schools, nursing centers, and hospitals. PEARSON'S NURSING ASSISTANT TODAY brings together all the skills, knowledge, and practical insights today's nursing assistants need to succeed in any care environment. Written for students with widely diverse learning needs and reading proficiencies, it is designed for easy understanding and quick reference. It presents 152 step-by-step procedures, ranging from the absolute basics to advanced procedures for use at the instructor's discretion. All procedures reflect 2010 AHA guidelines for CPR and ECC, modern care technologies, and Medicare OBRA requirements. Each procedure is explained with rationales, preparation, steps, follow-up, a charting example, and in many cases, full-color illustrations. This text's pedagogical features include chapter learning objectives, "On the Job" scenarios, "Nursing Assistant in Action" critical thinking features, exercises, sample exams, and more.

Lippincott Video Series for Nursing Assistants: Thepoint Access

Lippincott Video Series for Nursing Assistants: Thepoint Access
Author: Pamela Carter
Publisher: LWW
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781496322098

With more than 8 hours of engaging footage, the updated Lippincott Video Series for Nursing Assistants shows complete step-by-step demonstrations of the core skills performed daily by nursing assistants. The Second Edition includes brand new footage to reflect best practices and equipment currently found in the health care setting. In addition to teaching technical skills, this dynamic video series promotes qualities such as compassion and empathy, and demonstrates non-technical skills such as respecting the individual, caring for people with dementia, death and dying, and entry into the workforce. Ideal as a stand-alone learning tool or as a companion to the Carter suite of textbooks, these videos parallel the skills in the textbooks and are organized into fifteen modules for easy reference. The new edition also provides the ability to view closed captioning in English or Spanish.

Leadership and the Advanced Practice Nurse

Leadership and the Advanced Practice Nurse
Author: Diane Whitehead
Publisher: F.A. Davis
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2017-01-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0803642253

Envision a better future… Be prepared to lead the way to better outcomes…for your patients, your team, your institution, and yourself. You’ll not only learn about leadership, but also how to use your skills to manage staff, implement policy changes, and to develop systems that deliver cost effective, quality-controlled care. The coverage encompasses the competencies required by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in conjunction with major specialty nursing organizations. You’ll begin with the theories, models, and frameworks that provide the window through which to view leadership in the context of the regulations and standards that guide the delivery of care. Then, you’ll explore the importance of creating a culture that ensures safe, quality care, and learn how to plan and evaluate programs to affect change.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing
Author: Jacqueline Randle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2009
Genre: Adulthood
ISBN: 0199211043

This handbook provides a practical and evidence-based guide to the essential elements of clinical skills for nursing practice. Taking a systems-based approach to the care of patients, it looks at the majority of clinical scenarios, helping nurses and other health care workers to perform clinical skills safely and competently