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Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants

  • 8th Edition
  • December 28, 2018
  • Clare Kostelnick
  • English
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.

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

  • 6th Edition
  • February 16, 2018
  • Leighann Remmert + 1 more
  • English
Reinforce your understanding of the essentials! Corresponding to the chapters in Sorrentino’s Mosby’s Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 6th Edition this workbook provides a clear, comprehensive review of all the material included in the text. It uses a number of exercises and activities including case studies, matching, crosswords, labeling activities, multiple choice questions, and critical thinking exercises. In addition, over 75 checklists — one for every procedure in the text – help you evaluate your proficiency in skills drills. The Competency Evaluation Review section helps you prepare for the certification exam with content review, chapter quizzes, two final exams, and more!

Practice Guidelines for Family Nurse Practitioners - Revised Reprint

  • 3rd Edition
  • May 7, 2013
  • Karen Fenstermacher + 1 more
  • English
Convenient and portable, Practice Guidelines for Family Nurse Practitioners, 3rd Edition — Revised Reprint offers quick access to essential guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in a variety of family practice settings. Well known for its concise guidelines and extensive charts and tables, this Revised Reprint includes extensive updates throughout and offers vital information on the latest diagnostic methods, treatment options, and drug therapies for primary care conditions commonly seen by Nurse Practitioners in patients of all ages.

Placement Learning in Community Nursing

  • 1st Edition
  • March 21, 2013
  • Jane Harris + 1 more
  • Karen Holland
  • English
Worried about your placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities.

Workbook for Mosby's Textbook for the Home Care Aide

  • 3rd Edition
  • October 4, 2012
  • Joan M. Birchenall + 1 more
  • English
Use this workbook to review the knowledge required by home care aides and practice the procedures you’ll be performing as a home care aide! Corresponding to the chapters in Mosby’s Textbook for the Home Care Aide, 3rd Edition, this practical study tool helps you understand and apply the material with fun activities and a step-by-step checklist for each procedure in the textbook. Written by home care experts Joan Birchenall and Eileen Streight, this workbook prepares you for the many situations you may encounter as a home care aide.

A Nurse's Survival Guide to the Ward

  • 3rd Edition
  • July 24, 2012
  • Ann Richards + 1 more
  • English
The new edition of this highly popular book is an indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems for nurses starting work on the ward or returning to practice. It provides guidance in a variety of areas including: how to organise your job and yourself; how to assess patients; clinical information on a wide range of conditions; important principles, procedures and investigations; how to administer drugs safely; and what to do in an emergency. As well as information on how to do the job, the importance of communication and nursing care issues is emphasised. Background information is also given on underlying legal, health and safety issues.

Mosby's PDQ for LPN

  • 3rd Edition
  • May 4, 2012
  • Mosby
  • English
Easily locate critical clinical information at a moment's notice with Mosby's PDQ for the LPN. This easy-to-use, pocket-sized guide is your rapid reference to the hundreds of important nursing facts, formulas, lab values, and procedures you might need in the clinical setting. 10 color-coded sections break out key coverage of drugs, emergency care, pediatrics, patient teaching, obstetrics, geriatrics, patient assessment, and more. A special facts section contains additional information on essential formulas, conversion tables, and abbreviations.

Assistant de soins en gérontologie

  • 1st Edition
  • December 12, 2011
  • Fondation Médéric - Alzheimer + 4 more
  • French
Le plan Alzheimer a pour objectif de mieux accompagner les personnes malades et leurs aidants, en adaptant les dispositifs existants, mais aussi en développant des organisations nouvelles, tant à domicile qu'en établissement, et en coordonnant la recherche. Une des mesures du plan est la création d'une fonction spécifique, celle d'assistant de soins en gérontologie (ASG). En effet, la prise en charge au quotidien des personnes atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer et de leurs proches demande de bien connaître les caractéristiques de cette affection et de savoir repérer les compétences des personnes malades. Il est alors possible de mieux organiser la réalisation des actes de la vie quotidienne (toilette, repas…) et de prévenir des situations de crise (fugue, agressivité…). Il faut apprendre les techniques de soins spécifiques, de réhabilitation et de gestion des troubles du comportement, mais aussi savoir établir une communication appropriée. La fonction d'assistant de soins en gérontologie contribue ainsi à la qualité de vie de la personne malade et de ses aidants. La formation au métier d'ASG dure 140 heures et prépare les professionnels déjà en exercice à l'accompagnement spécifique des personnes atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer : - en équipes spécialisées au sein d'un service de soins infirmiers à domicile (SSIAD), - en unités spécialisées dans les établissements d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (EHPAD), - à l'hôpital, dans les services de soins de suite et réadaptation (SSR) cognitivo-comportementaux ou les unités de soins de longue durée (USLD). Cet ouvrage, fruit du travail de spécialistes de la maladie et de conseillers du ministère de la Santé et de la Cohésion sociale, présente l'ensemble des connaissances fondamentales et pratiques du référentiel officiel de formation, à travers 10 parties (généralités sur la maladie d'Alzheimer, démarche d'observation, entourage et environnement, relation d'aide…). Le cours, très clair et pédagogique, est complété par des fiches pratiques très détaillées, des exemples de situations et des conseils au professionnel.

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