Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach
By Barbara Acello, Barbara Hegner
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Acello/Hegner's NURSING ASSISTANT: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH has prepared more nursing assistants for meaningful careers in acute care, long-term care and home health than any other text. Its signature step-by-step format walks readers through more than 150 procedures, including key skills in patient handling, wound care, communication, safety and record keeping, as well as special care procedures for patients with medical devices, catheters and physical or mental impairments. It explores essential background information, such as basic human anatomy, career planning and emerging trends. Reflecting the expanded scope of real-world practice, the 12th Edition includes skills such as checking finger stick blood glucose, managing drainage, sterile technique and more. New color photos and illustrations bring concepts to life, while study tools include a print workbook and MindTap digital learning solution.
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Acello/Hegner's NURSING ASSISTANT: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH has prepared more nursing assistants for meaningful careers in acute care, long-term care and home health than any other text. Its signature step-by-step format walks readers through more than 150 procedures, including key skills in patient handling, wound care, communication, safety and record keeping, as well as special care procedures for patients with medical devices, catheters and physical or mental impairments. It explores essential background information, such as basic human anatomy, career planning and emerging trends. Reflecting the expanded scope of real-world practice, the 12th Edition includes skills such as checking finger stick blood glucose, managing drainage, sterile technique and more. New color photos and illustrations bring concepts to life, while study tools include a print workbook and MindTap digital learning solution.
Current Coverage: Information about common conditions and instructions for appropriate care have been updated throughout the text.
Safety Emphasis: A "Guidelines" feature in the readings point out considerations for specific care situations, while special "Alerts" spotlight urgent information on infection control, safety, culture, working with difficult patients, OSHA, communication, age-appropriate care and legal implications. In addition, Clinical Information boxes highlight special focus information for instructors and students to consider. These boxed features identify important information to review with students.
Flexible Coverage: Offering more skills and procedures than any competing text, the 12th edition prepares readers for careers in any area of nursing assisting, from acute and long-term care to home health and beyond. It also provides preparatory information for Patient Care Technicians (PCT), for exposing students to more advanced caregiver work in hospitals.
Ergonomic Procedures: A key focus on ergonomics includes OSHA algorithms for proper patient handling and movement to help readers avoid injuries to themselves and patients in their care.
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Section 1. Introduction to Nursing Assisting
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