LIPPINCOTT ESSENTIALS FOR NURSING ASSISTANTS (INTERNATIONAL EDITION). 5TH EDITION

• UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE
Chapter 1: The Health Care System
Chapter 2: The Nursing Assistant’s Job
Chapter 3: Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills
Chapter 4: Communication Skills
Chapter 5: Those We Care For
Chapter 6: The Patient’s or Resident’s Environment
• UNIT TWO: THE HUMAN BODY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Chapter 7: Basic Body Structure and Function
Chapter 8: Common Disorders
Chapter 9: Rehabilitation and Restorative Care
• UNIT THREE: LONG-TERM CARE
Chapter 10: Overview of Long-Term Care
Chapter 11: The Long-Term Care Resident
Chapter 12: Caring for People With Dementia
• UNIT FOUR: SAFETY
Chapter 13: Infection Control
Chapter 14: Workplace Safety
Chapter 15: Patient and Resident Safety
Chapter 16: Basic First Aid and Emergency Care
• UNIT FIVE: BASIC PATIENT AND RESIDENT CARE
Chapter 17: Assisting With Repositioning and Transferring
Chapter 18: Assisting With Exercise
Chapter 19: Bedmaking
Chapter 20: Measuring and Recording Vital Signs, Height, and Weight
Chapter 21: Assisting With Hygiene
Chapter 22: Preventing Pressure Ulcers and Assisting With Wound Care
Chapter 23: Assisting With Grooming
Chapter 24: Assisting With Nutrition
Chapter 25: Assisting With Urinary Elimination
Chapter 26: Assisting With Bowel Elimination
Chapter 27: Assisting With Comfort and Rest
• UNIT SIX: SPECIAL CARE CONCERNS
Chapter 28: Caring for People Who Are Dying
Chapter 29: Caring for People with Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 30: Caring for People with Cancer
Chapter 31: Caring for People with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 32: Caring for People Who Are Having Surgery
Chapter 33: Caring for People in the Home Environment
Appendix A: Answers to What Did You Learn? Questions
Appendix B: Introduction to the Language of Health Care
Glossary
Index

Streamline the path to a successful nursing assistant career with this concise, approachable text. Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 5th edition, delivers the foundational concepts and facts that a nursing assistant needs to competently and compassionately function in a long-term care facility, acute care facility, or home health agency.

Ideal for use in shorter, fast-paced programs, each chapter focuses on only the most essential concepts, breaking down information into segments for easier retention. Author Pamela Carter’s conversational, yet professional writing style clarifies complex material to make information more accessible. Helpful Procedures and Guidelines boxes provide step-by-step walkthroughs for common tasks and detail the rationale behind key procedure actions in order to enhance understanding and strengthen clinical decision-making capabilities.

The 5th edition has been revised and updated to reflect today’s changing healthcare practices — including the latest NNAAP® skill revisions and features callouts to Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants, a companion ebook-only text by Pamela Carter that highlights advanced skills and situations that may call for additional training as students advance through their nursing assistant careers.