Mosby's textbook for long-term care nursing assistants /
Sheila A. Sorrentino and Bernie Gorek
- Sixth edition.
- St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier Mosby, c2011
- xxii, 794 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Working In Long-Term Care Settings: -- Working in long-term care: -- Long-term care centers -- Nursing team -- Nursing care patterns -- Interdisciplinary health care team -- Paying for health care -- Meeting standards -- Resident rights: -- Resident rights -- Ombudsman program -- Nursing assistant in long-term care: -- History and current trends -- Federal and State laws -- Roles and responsibilities -- Delegation -- Ethics and laws: -- Ethical aspects -- Legal aspects -- Reporting abuse -- Work ethics: -- Health, hygiene, and appearance getting a job -- Preparing for work -- Teamwork -- Managing stress -- Harassment -- Resigning from a job -- Losing a job -- Drug testing -- Communicating with the health team: -- Communication -- Medical record -- Kardex -- Resident care conferences -- Reporting and recording -- Medical terms and abbreviations -- Computers and other electronic devices -- Phone communications -- Dealing with conflict -- Assisting with the nursing process: -- Assessment -- Nursing diagnosis -- Planning -- Implementation -- Evaluation -- Your role -- Focusing On The Person: -- Understanding the resident: -- Caring for the person -- Basic needs -- Culture and religion -- Effects of illness and disability -- Nursing center residents -- Behavior issues -- Communicating with the person -- Residents with disabilities -- Family and friends -- Body structure and function: -- Cells, tissues, and organs -- Integumentary system -- Musculo-skeletal system -- Nervous system -- Circulatory system -- Respiratory system -- Digestive system -- Urinary system -- Reproductive system -- Endocrine system -- Immune system -- Older person: -- Growth and development -- Psychological and social changes -- Physical changes -- Housing options -- Sexuality: -- Sex and sexuality -- Sexual relationships -- Injury, illness, and surgery -- Sexuality and older persons -- Meeting sexual needs -- Sexually aggressive person -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Protecting The Person: -- Safety: -- Safe setting -- Accident risk factors -- Identifying the person -- Preventing burns -- Preventing poisoning -- Preventing suffocation -- Preventing infection -- Preventing equipment accidents -- Wheelchair and stretcher safety -- Handling hazardous substances -- Fire safety -- Disasters -- Workplace violence -- Risk management -- Preventing falls: -- Causes and risk factors for falls -- Fall prevention programs -- Transfer/gait belts -- Falling person -- Restraint alternatives and safe restraint use: -- History of restraint use -- Restraint alternatives -- Safe restraint use -- Preventing infection: -- Microorganisms -- Infection -- Medical asepsis -- Isolation precautions -- Bloodborne pathogen standard -- Surgical asepsis -- Body mechanics: -- Principles of body mechanics -- Ergonomics -- Positioning the person -- Safe resident handling, moving, and transfers: -- Preventing work-related injuries -- Moving persons in bed -- Turning persons -- Sitting on the side of the bed (dangling) -- Transferring persons -- Re-positioning in a chair or wheelchair -- Assisting With Activities Of Daily Living: -- Resident's unit: -- Comfort -- Room furniture and equipment -- General rules -- Bedmaking: -- Types of beds -- Linens -- Making beds -- Hygiene: -- Daily care -- Oral hygiene -- Bathing -- Back massage -- Perineal care -- Reporting and recording -- Grooming: -- Hair care -- Shampooing -- Shaving -- Nail and foot care -- Changing clothing an hospital gowns -- Urinary elimination: -- Normal urination -- Urinary incontinence -- Catheters -- Bladder training -- Bowel elimination: -- Normal bowel elimination -- Factors affecting bowel elimination -- Common problems -- Bowel training -- Enemas -- Person with an ostomy. Nutrition and fluids: -- Basic nutrition -- Factors affecting eating and nutrition -- OBRA dietary requirements -- Special diets -- Fluid balance -- Meeting food and fluid needs -- Foodborne illnesses -- Nutritional support and IV therapy -- Enteral nutrition -- Parenteral nutrition -- IV therapy -- Exercise and activity: -- Bedrest -- Range-of-motion exercises -- Ambulation -- Recreational activities -- Comfort, rest, and sleep: -- Comfort -- Pain -- Rest -- Sleep -- Oxygen needs: -- Factors affecting oxygen needs -- Altered respiratory function -- Assisting with assessment and diagnostic tests -- Promoting oxygenation -- Assisting with oxygen therapy -- Respiratory support and therapies: -- Artificial airways -- Suctioning the airway -- Mechanical ventilation -- Chest tubes -- Assisted living: -- Purpose -- ALR residents -- Resident rights -- Staff requirements -- Service plan -- Transfer, discharge, and eviction -- Assisting With Assessment: -- Measuring vital signs: -- Measuring and reporting vital signs -- Body temperature -- Pulse -- Respirations -- Blood pressure -- Assisting with the physical examination: -- Your role -- Equipment -- Preparing the person -- Positioning and draping -- Assisting with the exam -- Collecting and testing specimens: -- Urine specimens -- Stools specimens -- Sputum specimens -- Blood glucose testing -- Assisting With Care Needs: -- Admissions, transfers, and discharges: -- Admissions -- Moving the person to a new room -- Transfers and discharges -- Wound care: -- Types of wounds -- Skin tears -- Circulatory ulcers -- Wound healing -- Dressings -- Binders -- Heat and cold applications -- Meeting basic needs -- Pressure ulcers: -- Risk factors -- Persons at risk -- Pressure ulcer stages -- Sites -- Prevention and treatment -- Complications -- Reporting and recording -- Hearing, speech, and vision problems: -- Ear disorders -- Speech disorders -- Eye disorders -- Cancer, immune system, and skin disorders: -- Cancer -- Immune system disorders -- Skin disorders -- Nervous system and musculo-skeletal disorders: -- Nervous system disorders -- Musculo-skeletal disorders -- Cardiovascular and respiratory disorders: -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Respiratory disorders -- Digestive and endocrine disorders: -- Digestive disorders -- Endocrine disorders -- Urinary and reproductive disorders: -- Urinary system disorders -- Reproductive disorders -- Mental health problems: -- Basic concepts -- Anxiety disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Personality disorders -- Substance abuse and addiction -- Suicide -- Care and treatment -- Confusion and dementia: -- Confusion -- Dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- Care of persons with AD and other dementias -- Developmental disabilities: -- Intellectual disabilities -- Down syndrome -- Fragile X syndrome -- Cerebral palsy -- Autism -- Spina bifida -- Hydrocephalus -- Rehabilitation and restorative nursing care: -- Restorative nursing -- Rehabilitation and the whole person -- Rehabilitation team -- Rehabilitation programs and services -- Basic emergency care: -- Emergency care -- Basic life support for adults -- Hemorrhage -- Fainting -- Shock -- Stroke -- Seizures -- Burns -- End-of-life care: -- Terminal illness -- Attitudes about death -- Stages of dying -- Comfort needs -- Family -- Legal issues -- Signs of death -- Care of the body after death -- Review Questions Answers: -- Appendices: -- A: National nurse aide assessment program (NNAAP) written examination content outline and skills evaluation -- B: Minimum data set -- C: Useful Spanish vocabulary and phrases -- Glossary -- Key abbreviations -- Index.
Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants provides complete coverage of the nursing assistant's role in the long-term care setting. These responsibilities are addressed clearly and logically in a visually appealing format. This new edition now includes Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM packaged free with the text to make learning key procedures interactive and engaging. A clear and readable writing style with a 7th grade reading level makes content easily understandable; Includes over 100 procedures divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning; The text highlights OBRA content throughout; Quality of Life boxes throughout the text address the OBRA mandate to enhance residents' overall well-being; Charting examples demonstrate correct recording methods to ensure accuracy in practice; Delegation Guidelines detail what the nursing assistant should know before accepting specific delegated tasks; Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes provide guidelines for techniques to promote the resident's safety and comfort; Focus on Rehabilitation boxes alert the student to special information and insights regarding rehabilitation care; Caring About Culture boxes help students learn about the various practices and preferences of people from various cultural groups; Residents with Dementia boxes detail special care and safety considerations for the confused resident; Teamwork and Time Management boxes suggest ways for nursing assistants to work more efficiently with the nursing team; Focus on Communication boxes provide suggestions for how to communicate with residents in a professional and caring manner; Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers follows OSHA's new ergonomic guidelines to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in nursing homes; Includes new procedures such as transferring the person from the chair or wheelchair to bed, and transferring the person to and from the toilet; Six new chapters include Assisting with the Nursing Process, Preventing Falls, Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers, Nutritional Support and IV Therapy, Collecting and Testing Specimens, and Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems; UNIQUE! Companion CD includes 25 procedures with video, animation, and interactive exercises, plus an audio glossary and Body Spectrum, an anatomy and physiology review program; UNIQUE! Workbook includes a competency review section that covers content tested in most state's certification exams, along with a series of review questions; Appendix provides basic Spanish health care terminology.