Full Description
This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.
Contents
Unit 1: Introduction to Advanced Care
Chapter 1 Working In An Advanced Care Setting
Unit 2: Advanced Patient Care Skills
Chapter 2 Sterile Technique
Chapter 3 Advanced Wound Care
Chapter 4 Advanced Urinary Care Skill
Chapter 5 Advanced Nutrition Skills
Chapter 6 Advanced Respiratory Care Skills
Chapter 7 Advanced Vascular Access Skills
Chapter 8 Advanced Cardiovascular Monitoring Skills
Unit 3: Special Care Concerns
Chapter 9 Care of the Rehabilitation Patient
Chapter 10 Care of the Surgical Patient
Chapter 11 Care of the Pediatric Patient
Chapter 12 Care of the Obstetric Patient
Chapter 13 Care of the Psychiatric Patient
Unit 4: Assisting with Medications
Chapter 14Introduction to Medication Administration
Chapter 15Common Medications
Appendix A Answers to the What Did You Learn? Exercises
Appendix B Caring For Organ and Tissue Donors and Recipients
Appendix C Basic Math Review
Glossary
Index
