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Mosby's Nursing Assistant Skills CD-ROM

9780323025706
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Description
In this innovative series, real-life nurses and nursing assistants provide clear demonstrations of how to perform key nursing assistant procedures in actual clinical situations. Contemporary concepts such as delegation, patient/resident rights, standard CDC precautions, OSHA Standards, quality of life, and communication techniques are integrated throughout. This set of 3 CDs offers a convenient electronic format, searchable contents, closed captioning throughout, and networking capabilities for a single local area computer network (LAN) only.
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Mosby
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9780323025706
9780323025706

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Publication date
2003
Issue number
1
Cover
CD-ROM
Weight (g)
182
    • Basic Principles
      • Roles and responsibilities (RN, LPN, NA), information about when an action can be performed & when it cannot
      • Nursing process (5 steps of Nursing Process, including nursing diagnosis & written plan of care)
      • Delegation, including 5 rights of delegation and content on what a task is
      • Patient & 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 & fracture bedpans
      • Providing catheter care, also demonstrating application of condom catheter
      • Administering a cleansing enema


    • Measurements
      • Height and weight
      • Intake & output, how to measure oral fluids
      • Vital signs
      • Temperature: oral, axillary, & rectal, using mercury-in-glass & 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 & towels for privacy
      • Back massage, including descriptions of techniques but not names
      • Perineal care for the female & for the male including gloving, draping, washing from clean to dirty


    • Bedmaking
      • Making the occupied bed, including making a mitered corner & 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 & shaving the male patients facial hair
      • Nail & foot care, including shaping toenails
      • Dressing, changing into pullover shirt & shorts; measuring for & application of TED hose


    • Body Mechanics and Exercise
      • Principles of body mechanics & how to use
      • Moving a person up in bed (with lift/draw sheet)
      • Turning & positioning (to side-lying position)
      • Dangling
      • Transfer from bed to wheelchair, using transfer belt
      • Passive range-of-motion exercises
      • Ambulation, using gait belt, & heel oe gait
      • Orthostatic hypotension definition, signs/ symptoms, & precautions


    • Safety and Restraints
      • Preventing falls
      • Using restraint alternatives, including proper use of side rails, bed & wheelchair locks
      • Safe use of restraints, what can be delegated to assistive personnel, application of vest restraint, extremity restraint, & 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 & difficulty swallowing, pocketing of food, help with washing hands and face, alternating liquids with solids


    • Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers
      • Assessing risk, causes, risks & 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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