Main description:

This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.

Contents:

Unit 1: Introduction to Advanced Care

Chapter 1 Working In An Advanced Care Setting

Unit 2: Advanced Patient Care Skills

Chapter 2 Sterile Technique

Chapter 3 Advanced Wound Care

Chapter 4 Advanced Urinary Care Skill

Chapter 5 Advanced Nutrition Skills

Chapter 6 Advanced Respiratory Care Skills

Chapter 7 Advanced Vascular Access Skills

Chapter 8 Advanced Cardiovascular Monitoring Skills

Unit 3: Special Care Concerns

Chapter 9 Care of the Rehabilitation Patient

Chapter 10 Care of the Surgical Patient

Chapter 11 Care of the Pediatric Patient

Chapter 12 Care of the Obstetric Patient

Chapter 13 Care of the Psychiatric Patient

Unit 4: Assisting with Medications

Chapter 14Introduction to Medication Administration

Chapter 15Common Medications

Appendix A Answers to the What Did You Learn? Exercises

Appendix B Caring For Organ and Tissue Donors and Recipients

Appendix C Basic Math Review

Glossary

Index