Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Assistants - Text and Mosby's Nurse Assisting Skills DVD (Student Version) Package

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ISBN: 9780323048927

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This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nurse assisting students. It includes Sorrentinos Mosbys Textbook for Long-Term Care Assistants, 5th edition & Mosbys Nursing Assistant Skills DVD - Student Version. With this special money-saving package, you get the DVD for an additional $10.00!

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Brand Mosby

Reference 38025

EAN13 9780323048927

ISBN 9780323048927

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Publication date: 2008
Issue number: 5
Cover: paperback
Weight (g): 1669

- Basic Principles
  - Roles and responsibilities (RN, LPN, NA), information about when an action can be performed and when it cannot
  - Nursing process (5 steps of Nursing Process, including nursing diagnosis and written plan of care)
  - Delegation, including 5 rights of delegation and content on what a task is
  - Patient and resident rights brief examples of how to promote rights in daily care activities
  - Communication (oral, written, non-verbal; reporting, charting, end-of-shift report, guidelines for how to communicate effectively)
  - Medical asepsis (chain of infection, handwashing, examples of medical asepsis applied in daily care)
- Normal Elimination
  - Assisting with a urinal
  - Assisting with a bedpan, including standard and fracture bedpans
  - Providing catheter care, also demonstrating application of condom catheter
  - Administering a cleansing enema
- Measurements
  - Height and weight
  - Intake and output, how to measure oral fluids
  - Vital signs
  - Temperature:: oral, axillary, and rectal, using mercury-in-glass and electronic thermometers
  - Pulse:: radial and apical; rate, rhythm and quality; how to locate apical pulse and point of maximal/maximum impulse
  - Respiration:: rate, rhythm, effort
  - Blood pressure:: one-step and two-step methods
- Bathing
  - The complete bed bath, including gloving, how to place bath blanket and towels for privacy
  - Back massage, including descriptions of techniques but not names
  - Perineal care for the female and for the male including gloving, draping, washing from clean to dirty
- Bedmaking
  - Making the occupied bed, including making a mitered corner and toe pleat
- Personal Hygiene and Grooming
  - Oral hygiene, including oral care for unconscious person, cleaning dentures, precautions for person at risk of aspiration
  - Hair care, including shampoo in bed and shaving the male patients facial hair
  - Nail and foot care, including shaping toenails
  - Dressing, changing into pullover shirt and shorts; measuring for and application of TED hose
- Body Mechanics and Exercise
  - Principles of body mechanics and how to use
  - Moving a person up in bed (with lift/draw sheet)
  - Turning and positioning (to side-lying position)
  - Dangling
  - Transfer from bed to wheelchair, using transfer belt
  - Passive range-of-motion exercises
  - Ambulation, using gait belt, and heel oe gait
  - Orthostatic hypotension definition, signs/ symptoms, and precautions
- Safety and Restraints
  - Preventing falls
  - Using restraint alternatives, including proper use of side rails, bed and wheelchair locks
  - Safe use of restraints, what can be delegated to assistive personnel, application of vest restraint, extremity restraint, and finger-control mitten
  - Monitoring restraint use
- Nutrition and Fluids
  - Preparing for meals, including creating a pleasant environment, attending to persons needs for elimination, hygiene, pain relief, socialization, meal plan; checking meal card against ID
  - Serving meal trays, including use of clock technique for visually impaired person to help identify location of individual food items
  - Feeding the dependent person, including positioning observations for person with dysphagia, signs of aspiration and difficulty swallowing, pocketing of food, help with washing hands and face, alternating liquids with solids
- Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers
  - Assessing risk, causes, risks and signs of pressure ulcers
  - Measures to prevent pressure ulcers, including skin inspection, skin care, positioning into 30-degree lateral position, position changes, pressure-relief devices, including air flotation mattress, elbow protector, foam foot stabilizer - the heel boot
  - Measures to treat pressure ulcers (covered briefly)