Workbook to accompany Lippincott's textbook for nursing assistants /

Carter, Pamela J.

Workbook to accompany Lippincott's textbook for nursing assistants / Pamela J. Carter - 2nd edition - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams &Wilkins, c2008. - xi, 415 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

CONTETNTS:

Unit 1 Introduction to health care
1. The Health care system
2. The Nursing assistant
3. Professionalism and job-seeking skills
4. Legal and ethical issues
5. Communication skills
6. Those we care for
Unit 2 Safety
7. Communicable disease and infection control
8. Bloodborne and airborne pathogens
9. Workplace safety
10. Patient safety and restraint alternatives
11. Positioning, lifting, and transferring patients and residents
12. Basic first aid and emergency care
Unit 3 Basic patient and resident care
13. The patient or resident environmentt
14. Admissions, transfers, and discharges
15. Bedmaking
16. vital signs, height, and weight
17. Comfort and rest
18. Cleanliness and hygiene
19. Grooming
20. Basic nutrition
21. Assisting with urinary and bowel elimination
Unit 4 Death and dying
22. Caring for people who are terminally ill
23. Caring for people who are terminally ill
24. Caring for people who are dying
Unit 5 Structure and function of the human body
25. Basic body structure and function
26. The integumentary system
27. The musculoskeletal system
28. The respiratory system
29. The cardiovascular system
30. The nervous system
31. the sensory system
32. The endocrine system
33. The digestive system
34. The urinary system
35. The reproductive system
Unit 6 Special care concerns
36. Caring for people with rehabilitation needs
37. Caring for people with developmental disabilities
38. Caring for people with mental illness
39. Caring for people with cancer
40. Caring for people with HIV/AIDS
Unit 7 Acute care
41. Caring for surgical patients
42. Caring for mothers and newborns
43. Caring for pediatric patients
Unit 8 Home health care
44. Introduction to home health care
45. Safety and infection control in the home health care setting



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