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Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants

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Get a wide variety of exercises to enhance your learning with the Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review to Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition. This chapter-to-chapter companion to Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, builds critical thinking skills and prepares you for your certification exam and clinical practice. Engaging review questions, exercises, and independent learning activities go beyond the textbook to help you practice procedures required for certification and help you learn to provide competent and respectful care.

Puntos claves

  • Competency Evaluation Review
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    prepares you for certification exam without requiring you to purchase an additional text.
  • 100 procedure checklists provide step-by-step list for completing skills for detailed self-evaluation of performance skills from the textbook.
  • Optional learning exercises and mini-case studies highlight concepts and skills within each chapter so you can apply concepts and build critical thinking skills.
  • A variety of activities and exercises including multiple-choice questions, matching, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, crossword puzzles, and labeling to enhance your learning.
  • Independent learning activities in every chapter promote critical thinking with optional higher-level study opportunities for those wishing to go beyond the basic competency level.

Índice

1. The Nursing Assistant Working in Long-Term Care

2. Resident Rights, Ethics, and Laws

3. Work Ethics

4. Communicating With the Health Team

5. Assisting With the Nursing Process

6. Understanding the Resident

7. Culture and Religion

8. Body Structure and Function

9. The Older Person

10. Sexuality

11. Safety

12. Preventing Falls

13. Restraint Alternatives and Safe Restraint Use

14. Preventing Infection

15. Body Mechanics and Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers

16. The Resident’s Unit

17. Bedmaking

18. Hygiene

19. Grooming

20. Nutrition and Fluids

21. Nutritional Support and IV Therapy

22. Urinary Elimination

23. Bowel Elimination

24. Exercise and Activity

25. Comfort, Rest, and Sleep

26. Oxygen Needs and Respiratory Therapies

27. Measuring Vital Signs

28. Assisting With the Physical Examination

29. Collecting and Testing Specimens

30. Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges

31. Wound Care

32. Pressure Ulcers

33. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems

34. Cancer, Immune System, and Skin Disorders

35. Nervous System and Musculoskeletal Disorders

36. Cardiovascular and Respiratory System Disorders

37. Digestive and Endocrine System Disorders

38. Urinary and Reproductive System Disorders

39. Mental Health Problems

40. Confusion and Dementia

41. Developmental Disabilities

42. Rehabilitation and Restorative Nursing Care

43. Assisted Living

44. Basic Emergency Care

45. End-of-Life Care

46. Getting a Job – Career Management
Procedure Checklists
Competency Evaluation Review
Textbook Chapter Review
Practice Examination 1
Practice Examination 2
Answers to Review Questions in Textbook Chapter Review

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Sobre el autor

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Clare Kostelnick

Clare Kostelnick is professor emeritus at Des Moines Area Community College where she continues to teach nursing assistant courses. She received her BSN from the Brokaw School of Nursing of Illinois Wesleyan University. She began her career as a registered nurse serving in the US Army Nurse Corps. Having achieved the rank of captain, she spent most of her military career working in emergency care. Clare’s 45 years of nursing experience also includes working in critical care as a staff nurse, a home care and hospice staff nurse, a long-term care staff nurse and consultant, and a coordinator of an assisted living facility. She has taught nursing assistant classes for over 20 years. Clare is a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructor for the American Heart Association and is a member of the Iowa Health Educators Association.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor Emeritus and Nurse Assistant Instructor, Des Moines Area Community College, USA