The Nursing assistant / Francie Wolgin

Includes index.

The health care system -- Your role as a nursing assistant -- Communication skills -- Patients, residents, and clients -- Infection control -- Safety -- Body mechanics: positioning, moving, and transporting patients -- Admitting, transferring, and discharging a patient -- The patient's environment -- Bedmaking -- Home health care -- Personal care of the patient -- Emergency care -- The human body -- Growth and development -- The musculoskeletal system and related care -- The integumentary system and related care -- The circulatory and respiratory system and related care -- Measuring vital signs -- The gastrointestinal system and related care -- Nutrition for the patient -- The urinary system and related care -- Specimen collection -- The endocrine system and related care of diabetics -- The reproductive system and related care -- The nervous system and related care -- Warm and cold applications.

"Now in its ninth edition, this market-leading book continues to prepare the nation's finest nursing assistants in the deliver safe, effective care in acute, sub-acute, long-term care, and home heath settings by maintaining the time-tested hallmark features students and instructors love while staying current in the dynamic, ever-changing world of healthcare. To enrich learning, enhance critical thinking skills and improve client care, the guidelines and clearly illustrated procedures that illustrate the "how" of what nursing assistants need to do, now include clearly written rationales that help them to understand the "why" behind their patient care actions."