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

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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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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)
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