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The 2nd edition of our best-selling title, The Nursing Assistant's Handbook is now available This brief new textbook to train nursing assistants teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. Organized around learning objectives, it contains rationales for procedural steps and an emphasis on resident's rights and passing the certification exam.

Table of Contents
1 Long-Term Care and the Nursing Assistant's Role
2 Foundations of Resident Care
3 Understanding Your Residents
4 Body Systems
5 Personal Care Skills
6 Basic Nursing Skills
7 Nutrition and Hydration
8 Common,Chronic,and Acute Conditions
9 Rehabilitation and Restorative Services
10 Caring for Yourself.
Price: $19.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

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.
Price: $33.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

A student-friendly text, the second edition of Successful Nursing Assistant Care by Diana Dugan, RN is a comprehensive textbook to train nursing assistants that teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. This book emphasizes safety, privacy, and respect before and after providing care. Care guidelines are colored for easy reference, and ways to promote residents right's are emphasized. This book contains updated information on HIPAA and CDC guidelines for infection control. Organized around learning objectives, it contains creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, essential information on preventing abuse and neglect, and chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter. This textbook reflects author Diana Dugan's 15 years of experience teaching nursing assistants in community colleges, proprietary schools, and long-term care facilities..
Price: $41.65 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook It is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. To help students prepare for the certification exam, the workbook contains both a practice exam and a skills checklist section..
Price: $12.43 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This beautiful second edition of The Home Health Aide Handbook is unlike any other handbook or pocket guide on the market. This up-to-date book is a valuable tool for many reasons For home health aides, it includes all the procedures learned in their training program, plus references to abbreviations, medical terms, care guidelines for specific diseases, and an appendix to include important names and phone numbers. For certified nursing assistants moving to home care, we've included helpful information on making the transition from institutions to homes. In addition, this book contains all of the federal requirements for home health aides so it also can be used in a basic training program. Not only is it inexpensive, but it's also loaded with photos and illustrations! Use it for training AND encourage your aides to carry it with them into the field to use as a quick reference tool.

The second edition contains updated information on:

- all of the federal requirements for home health aides
- a considerable emphasis on observing and reporting
- HIPAA and how to protect a client's privacy
- home care focus boxes
- nutrition and the USDA's MyPyramid
- numerous procedures emphasizing how they are performed in the home, including a new two-step procedure for taking blood pressure
- care guidelines for specific diseases
- pain management
- chart of medical and commonly-used abbreviations
- mercury-free thermometers
- home-care specific tips for housekeeping and cooking
- disaster guidelines
- comprehensive glossary, and easy-to-use index, including a table of where to find procedures

This handy guide is the perfect size. It fits easily into a backpack, purse, or home care bag. Encourage your aides to carry it with them into the field to use as a quick reference tool. It also makes the perfect gift for Home Health Aide Week in November!

This textbook is also available in Spanish. Este libro de texto esta tambien en espanol: Guia de Tecnicas para Ayudantes de Salud en el Hogar, Segunda Edicion..
Price: $16.50 [Notify me when price goes down.]

La segunda edicion de nuestro libro de mayor venta, Guia de Tecnicas para Asistentes de Enfermeria, ya esta disponible. Este breve y nuevo libro de texto para entrenar asistentes de enfermeria presenta todos los requerimientos estatales, federales y de seguridad. Esta magníficamente ilustrado y claramente retratado para encontrar el material de manera rapida. Organizado alrededor de objetivos de aprendizaje, el libro contiene bases para las guias de procedimientos y enfasis en los derechos de los residentes y en pasar la certificacion del examen.

Contenido
1 El Cuidado a Largo Plazo y el Rol de la Asistente de Enfermeria
2 Las Bases Fundamentales del Cuidado de los Residentes
3 Entendiendo a los Residentes
4 Sistemas del Cuerpo
5 Tecnicas para el Cuidado Personal
6 Tecnicas Basicas de Enfermeria
7 Nutricion e Hidratacion
8 Condiciones Comunes, Cronicas y Agudas
9 Servicios de Rehabilitacion y Restauracion
10 El Cuidado de Uno Mismo

Este libro de texto esta tambien en ingles.

The 2nd edition of our best-selling title, The Nursing Assistant's Handbook is now available. This brief new textbook to train nursing assistants teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. Organized around learning objectives, it contains rationales for procedural steps and an emphasis on resident's rights and passing the certification exam.

Table of Contents
1 Long-Term Care and the Nursing Assistant's Role
2 Foundations of Resident Care
3 Understanding Your Residents
4 Body Systems
5 Personal Care Skills
6 Basic Nursing Skills
7 Nutrition and Hydration
8 Common,Chronic,and Acute Conditions
9 Rehabilitation and Restorative Services
10 Caring for Yourself.
Price: $24.90 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook. It is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. And the 2nd edition of the workbook includes even more multiple-choice questions. To help students prepare for the certification exam, the workbook contains both a practice exam and a skills checklist section..
Price: $14.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The third edition of Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides and the accompanying workbook are now available! Providing Home Care is a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. This edition contains new and/or updated information on abuse and neglect, nutritional requirements and special diets, advance directives, disasters, Alzheimer's disease, CPR, and infectious diseases.

Thousands of instructors shared their ideas of what would make the perfect home health aide training textbook, and we listened carefully. Providing Home Care is exactly what you wanted a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains:

- Beautiful illustrations and clear photographs with color tabs for easy location of material
- Chapters that are organized around learning objectives and are written at a low reading level
- Creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, and new information on abuse and neglect
- New material on MyPyramid and expanded sections on special diets and nutritional supplements
- New information on advance directives
- Expanded section on disasters and related guidelines
- Additional information and ways to care for clients with Alzheimer s disease
- Up-to-date sections on CPR and infectious diseases
- Chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter
- A new glossary at the end of the textbook.
Price: $42.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]