Over 6,000 instructors shared their ideas for the perfect nursing assistant textbook. Nursing Assistant Care is exactly what you asked for: a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains:
- Beautiful illustrations and clear photographs
- Chapters organized around learning objectives and written at an easy-to-understand reading level
- Creative methods to teach care and observations and promoting independence
- An emphasis on essential information on preventing abuse and neglect
- Chapter-ending material that develops critical thinking and tests the chapter
- Common diseases and conditions and related care in one chapter, organized by body system
- An entire chapter devoted to confusion, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease
- Up-to-date CPR and emergency care sections
- A chapter on mental health and mental illness
- Comprehensive information on developmental disabilities
- Personal care skills and nursing skills in their own chapters
- Separate chapters for bowel and urinary elimination
