Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach

by Barbara Hegner, Esther Caldwell, Joan Fritsch Needham

The eighth edition of this best-selling, competency-based text provides the most comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills required of nursing assistants in acute care, long-term care, and home health care settings. It includes essential information on the skills required to pass the competency evaluation exam required by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act-1987 (OBRA) as well as advanced nursing assistant skills. The text includes 143 procedures that identify OBRA requirements as well as infection control considerations. All content has been carefully updated and emphasizes patient comfort and safety, nursing assistant safety, infection control, and protection of patientsi rights. This revision includes new chapters on cultural diversity, subacute care, information on the multiskilled worker, consumer rights and responsibilities in health care, and trends in home health care. Supplements Workbook 0-8273-9062-9 Instructor's Manual 0-8273-9059-9 Instructor's Resource Kit 0-8273-9060-2 Compter Test Bank 0-8273-9061-0

Genres: Nursing

700 pages, Hardcover

First published June 10, 1998