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Sorrentino's Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker

  • 5th Edition
  • April 16, 2021
  • Mary J. Wilk
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 1 1 6 5 - 4
Learn to provide personal care and professional support in a variety of health care settings! Sorrentino’s Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker, 5th Edition helps you build the skills you need to succeed as a personal support worker. With 93 illustrated, step-by-step procedures, Sorrentino’s is the #1 book used by students in support worker programs across Canada.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Soft Cover Version

  • 10th Edition
  • March 16, 2020
  • Sheila A. Sorrentino + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 5 5 6 2 - 0
Known for its comprehensive coverage, readability, and visual presentation, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 10th Edition helps prepare you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings — and includes a practice scenario in each chapter to enhance clinical judgment skills. It is the most comprehensive text for CNA programs, packed with step-by-step instructions for over 100 procedures and perfect for programs that are 80 hours or longer. The lifespan coverage includes skills not only for adults and older residents, but also for maternity and pediatric patients, so you are comfortable in a variety of care settings. New chapter organization allows you to learn in manageable portions and a revitalized art program clarifies important concepts and procedural steps

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

  • 10th Edition
  • March 3, 2020
  • Sheila A. Sorrentino + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 7 2 8 8 - 7
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 7 2 8 9 - 4
It’s an essential workbook and exam review all in one! Corresponding to the chapters in Sorrentino and Remmert’s comprehensive text, the Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 10th Edition reinforces your understanding with numerous exercises and review questions — including matching, multiple-choice, labeling, crosswords, and mini case studies. Checklists for each of the 100+ procedures in the text help you study key skills. The　Competency Evaluation Review　section prepares you for the CNA exam with a review of content, a skills evaluation review, and two practice exams.

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

  • 8th Edition
  • March 10, 2019
  • Clare Kostelnick
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 3 0 6 3 - 7
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.

Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants

  • 8th Edition
  • December 28, 2018
  • Clare Kostelnick
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 3 0 7 1 - 2
With its highly visual format, topical information, and easy-to-follow guidance, Mosby’s Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition is the perfect resource to help you master the ins and outs of long-term care. One hundred step-by-step procedures — all written at the sixth-grade reading level — provide clear instructions for completing skills. Helpful spotlight boxes and realistic patient scenarios reinforce the nursing assistant’s roles and responsibilities that are needed in today’s long-term care settings. New features in this edition include an all-new chapter on culture and religion; a new chapter on career management and getting hired; new procedures; and updated content on topical issues like confusion and dementia, hypertension, American Heart Association CPR, cancer, and more. As with previous editions, the focus on OBRA content and patient quality of life will underscore competent and respectful care.

Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants

  • 6th Edition
  • February 1, 2018
  • Leighann Remmert + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 8 1 9 0 - 5
Designed for shorter programs of 85 hours or fewer, Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 6th Edition provides coverage of the concepts and skills that are essential for becoming a nursing assistant. Known for its reader-friendly approach, and bright visual presentation, the text covers OBRA-mandated content including step-by-step procedures for 76 skills covered on the latest NATSEP certification exams. With focus on quality of life in the patient/person and self-pride in the nursing assistant this concise text emphasizes the importance of treating residents with respect while providing safe, competent, and efficient care. New features include Focus on Math to help you master the formulas and calculations necessary for safe and effective caregiving and Focus on Pride: Application, which directs you to focus on residents’ emotional and mental needs during specific procedures.

Workbook for Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician

  • 1st Edition
  • February 17, 2017
  • Kimberly Townsend Little
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 4 5 7 2 - 6
This workbook reinforces students' understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises, activities, and practice questions. Multiple-choice questions help reinforce content from each chapter. Ordered response questions emphasize proper procedure steps. Critical thinking exercises present a case study to help students apply concepts to practice. The practice exam helps students prepare for certification examination. Over 75 checklists - one for every procedure in the text - assist in mastering the skills necessary for safe patient care.

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for the Patient Care Technician

  • 1st Edition
  • January 19, 2017
  • Kimberly Townsend Little
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 4 5 7 7 - 1
Learn to master the wide range of information and skills needed by today’s health care workers with Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Patient Care Technicians. While its comprehensive coverage of patient care is appropriate for all types of health care workers, this all-new text is specifically designed to prepare students and professionals for the topics they will face on the Patient Care Technician or the Nursing Assistant certification exams. Coverage includes working within the healthcare team, ethics, laws, communication, understanding patients, culture, patient rights, body structure and function, and growth and development. Procedure units cover safety, infection control, moving and transfers, vital signs, patient assessment, care, comfort, hygiene, and grooming, nutrition and fluids, elimination and respiration skills, and care of the surgical patient. Plus, advanced skills for Patient Care Technicians such as specimen collection, phlebotomy procedures and ECG procedures are also included.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Soft Cover Version

  • 9th Edition
  • January 28, 2016
  • Sheila A. Sorrentino + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 3 1 9 8 0 - 5
Master the essential skills of today’s nursing assistant! Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th Edition prepares you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings. Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easy-to-read, visual approach, this book includes step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures. New to this edition is a practice scenario in each chapter to help you develop problem solving and critical thinking skills, as well as Focus on Math boxes that highlight common calculations done on the job. Written by well-known educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication — two elements critical to being an effective nursing assistant.

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