Book Details

Key Features

• NEW! Chapter organization breaks material into manageable portions, improving your ability to retain important information.
• NEW! More images depicting culturally diverse patients and care takers increase the variety of persons represented in the textbook.
• NEW! Shorter, more focused chapters help you retain important concepts and skills covered in the NATCEP certification exam.
• Complete coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to pass the state certification exam and engage in safe practice.
• Clear writing at a seventh-grade reading level ensures accessibility for low-level learners.
• More than 100 skills outlined in pre-procedure and post-procedure sections ensure you learn all the necessary steps to pass the skills portion of the certification exam.
• Focus on Math feature reviews mathematical calculations needed in various care measures and procedures.
• Getting a Job chapter covers the soft skills needed to seek and obtain employment.
• Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant role during state inspections.
• Focus on Practice: Problem Solving scenarios stimulate critical thinking about common situations encountered during practice.
• Focus on PRIDE: The Person, Family, and Yourself boxes build on chapter concepts to help promote pride in the nursing assistant, the resident, and the resident’s family.
• Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the importance of the patient’s or resident’s safety and comfort.
• Delegation Guidelines detail the specifics of accepting delegated tasks.
• Focus on Children and Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about 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 the long-term and home care settings.
• Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable.
• Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help you learn about the various practices of other cultures.
• Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help nursing assistants work most efficiently, whether independently or as part of the nursing team.
• Chapter review questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter.