Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

Description

The Third Edition of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' flagship and cornerstone basic textbook of nursing assisting. This engaging, ancillary-rich text is intended as the basic training resource for the Nursing Assistant course which generally encompasses 120 hours of training.

Three key beliefs form the basis for the textbook:

1. Students need a textbook that captures their interests and increases their desire to learn.
2. Graduates of nursing assistant training programs must be able to provide competent, skilled care in a compassionate way.
3. The nursing assistant is a vital member of the health care team.

Features

• Engaging and conversational writing style developed in conjunction with a reading specialist to ensure readability for ESL and other reading challenged students
• Text focuses on professionalism, humanism, communication, and the "why" behind the "what"
• Highly visual presentation
• Full Chapter on Dementia
• New Chapter on Comfort and Rest
• New Chapter on Special Care Concerns
• Expanded coverage of comfort and pain, mental illness, Home Health Care, and documentation
• Procedures Checklist and updated audio glossary added to this edition
• New Words of Wisdom feature -- first-hand inspirational stories from Nursing Assistants
• Helping Hands and a Caring Heart: Focus on Humanistic Health Care Boxes
• Stop and Think! Scenarios
• Tell the Nurse!
• Watch and Learn/Listen and Learn Audio and Video Clips
• What You Do/Why You Do It boxes
• Student Resource CD and access to Carter 3e's thePoint site
• Instructor Resouce CD and access to Carter 3e's thePoint site available
• Free iPhone app: LWW MediaSCAN

Table of Contents

UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE
Chapter 1 The Health Care System
Chapter 2 The Nursing Assistant
Chapter 3 Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills
Chapter 4 Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 5 Communication Skills
Chapter 6 Those We Care For

UNIT TWO: SAFETY
Chapter 7 Communicable Disease and Infection Control
Chapter 8 Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens
Chapter 9 Workplace Safety
Chapter 10 Patient Safety
Chapter 11 Positioning, Lifting and Transferring Patients and Residents
Chapter 12 Basic First Aid and Emergency Care

UNIT THREE: BASIC PATIENT CARE
Chapter 13 The Patient Environment
Chapter 14 Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
Chapter 15 Bedmaking
Chapter 16 Vital Signs, Height, and Weight
Chapter 17 Patient Cleanliness and Hygiene
Chapter 18 Grooming
Chapter 19 Basic Nutrition
Chapter 20 Assisting with Urinary and Bowel Elimination
Chapter 21 Comfort and Rest

UNIT FOUR: DEATH AND DYING
Chapter 22 Caring for People With Terminal Illnesses
Chapter 23 Caring for People Who Are Dying

UNIT FIVE: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN BODY
Chapter 24 Basic Body Structure and Function
Chapter 25 The Integumentary System
Chapter 26 The Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 27 The Respiratory System
Chapter 28 The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 29 The Nervous System
Chapter 30 The Sensory System
Chapter 31 The Endocrine System
Chapter 32 The Digestive System
Chapter 33 The Urinary System
Chapter 34 Reproductive System

UNIT SIX: SPECIAL CARE CONCERNS
Chapter 35 Caring for People With Rehabilitation Needs
Chapter 36 Caring for People with Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 37 Caring for People with Mental Illness
Chapter 38 Caring for People with Dementia
Chapter 39 Caring for People with Cancer
Chapter 40 Caring for People with HIV/AIDS

UNIT SEVEN: ACUTE CARE
Chapter 41 Caring for Surgical Patients
Chapter 42 Caring for Mothers and Newborns
Chapter 43 Caring for Pediatric Patients

UNIT EIGHT: HOME HEALTH CARE
Chapter 44 Introduction to Home Health Care
Chapter 45 Safety and Infection Control in the Home Health Care Setting
Appendix A: Answers to What Did You Learn? Questions
Appendix B: Introduction to the Language of Health Care
Glossary
Index

Author Bio

Pamela J Carter RN, BSN, MEd, CNOR
Davis Applied Technology College, Kaysville, UT