Description

Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 5th Edition
Pamela J. Carter, RN, BSN, MEd, CNOR

Deliver compassionate, competent care in any healthcare setting.

Written in a conversational, easy-to-read style and rich with dynamic images and illustrations, this comprehensive text helps you master the technical, communication, and critical thinking skills essential to your success as a nursing assistant. Up-to-date coverage reflects the latest clinical approaches, and a practical format guides you through the decision-making process behind safe, fulfilling patient outcomes.

• NEW! Taking It to the Next Level: Advanced Skills calls-out skills in the text that may require additional training as you advance your career and are further explained in Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants eBook.
• Updated content keeps you current with the latest state-specific guidelines and 2016 NNAAP skill revisions.
• Guidelines (“What You Do/Why You Do It”) boxes detail the how and why behind key nursing assistant actions.
• Tell the Nurse! Notes summarize observations that you need to report to the nurse.
• Stop and Think! Scenarios offer practice for solving the types of complex, real-world nursing situations you’ll encounter on the job.
• Helping Hands and a Caring Heart: Focus on Humanistic Health Care boxes help you empathize with those in your care and meet patients’ and residents’ emotional and spiritual needs, as well as their physical needs.
• Empowering online learning tools reinforce key terms and content with engaging Watch and Learn/Listen and Learn Audio and Video Clips and an interactive audio glossary .
• Procedures highlight important privacy, safety, infection control, and comfort concepts and guide you step by step through essential nursing assistant tasks.
• Chapter-ending summary sections enhance your retention and understanding at a glance.
• What Did You Learn? multiple-choice and matching exercises with answers help you assess your understanding of essential information and prepare for state certification exams.
• Nursing Assistants Make A Difference! sections highlight your critical role on the healthcare team with first-person accounts of the nursing assistant’s positive impact on the lives of others.
• Empowering online learning tools reinforce key terms and content with engaging Watch and Learn/Listen and Learn Audio and Video Clips and an interactive audio glossary is available at thePoint.lww.com/Carter5e.

Table of contents

UNIT 1: Introduction to Health Care

• CHAPTER 1:The Health Care System
• CHAPTER 2: The Nursing Assistant
• CHAPTER 3: Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills
• CHAPTER 4: Legal and Ethical Issues
• CHAPTER 5: Communication Skills
• CHAPTER 6: Those We Care For

UNIT 2: Long-Term Care

• CHAPTER 7: Overview of Long-Term Care
• CHAPTER 8: The Long-Term Care Resident
• CHAPTER 9: Caring for People With Dementia

UNIT 3: Safety

• CHAPTER 10: Communicable Disease and Infection Control
• CHAPTER 11: Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens
• CHAPTER 12: Workplace Safety
• CHAPTER 13: Patient Safety and Restraint Alternatives
• CHAPTER 14: Positioning, Lifting, and Transferring Patients and Residents
• CHAPTER 15: Basic First Aid and Emergency Care

UNIT 4: Basic Patient and Resident Care

• CHAPTER 16: The Patient or Resident Environment
• CHAPTER 17: Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
• CHAPTER 18: Bedmaking
• CHAPTER 19: Vital Signs, Height, and Weight
• CHAPTER 20: Comfort and Rest
• CHAPTER 21: Cleanliness and Hygiene
• CHAPTER 22: Grooming
• CHAPTER 23: Basic Nutrition
• CHAPTER 24: Assisting With Urinary and Bowel Elimination

UNIT 5: Death and Dying

• CHAPTER 25: Caring for People Who Are Terminally Ill
• CHAPTER 26: Caring for People Who Are Dying

UNIT 6: Structure and Function of the Human Body

• CHAPTER 27: Basic Body Structure and Function
• CHAPTER 28: The Integumentary System
• CHAPTER 29: The Musculoskeletal System
• CHAPTER 30: The Respiratory System
• CHAPTER 31: The Cardiovascular System
• CHAPTER 32: The Nervous SystemStructure of the Sensory System
• CHAPTER 33: The Sensory System
• CHAPTER 34: The Endocrine System
• CHAPTER 35: The Digestive System
• CHAPTER 36: The Urinary System
• CHAPTER 37: The Reproductive System

UNIT 7: Special Care Concerns

• CHAPTER 38: Caring for People With Rehabilitation Needs
• CHAPTER 39: Caring for People With Developmental Disabilities
• CHAPTER 40: Caring for People With Mental Illness
• CHAPTER 41: Caring for People With Cancer
• CHAPTER 42: Caring for People With HIV/AIDS

UNIT 8: Acute Care

• CHAPTER 43: Caring for Surgical Patients
• CHAPTER 44: Caring for Mothers and Newborns
• CHAPTER 45: Caring for Pediatric Patients

UNIT 9: Home Health Care

• CHAPTER 46: Introduction to Home Health Care
• CHAPTER 47: Safety and Infection Control in the Home Health Care Setting

Appendix A Answers to the What Did You Learn? Exercises

Appendix B Introduction to the Language of Health Care

Glossary

Index