Mosby's essentials for nursing assistants. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Essentials for nursing assistants
• Further Information: Note: Leighann N. Remmert, MS, RN, Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN.
• Authors: Remmert, Leighann N; Sorrentino, Sheila A
• Contents: Introduction to health care -- The person's rights -- The nursing assistant -- Ethics and laws -- Student and work ethics -- Communicating with the person -- Health team communications -- Medical terminology -- Body structure and function -- The older person -- Safety needs -- Preventing falls -- Restraint alternatives and restraints -- Preventing infection -- Isolation precautions -- Body mechanics -- Moving the person -- Transferring the person -- The person's unit -- Bedmaking -- Oral hygiene -- Daily hygiene and bathing -- Grooming -- Dressing and undressing -- Urinary needs -- Urinary catheters -- Bowel needs -- Nutrition -- Meeting nutrition needs -- Fluid needs -- Measurements -- Exercise and activity needs -- Comfort and rest needs -- Collecting specimens -- Wound care -- Pressure injuries ­-- Oxygen needs -- Rehabilitation needs -- Hearing, speech, and vision problems -- Common health problems -- Mental health disorders -- Confusion and dementia -- Emergency care -- End-of-life care -- Getting a job.
• Edition: 7th edition
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Mosby
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (640 pages)
• Subjects: 610.7306/98; Nurses' aides -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Care of the sick -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Nursing Assistants; Nursing Care; Care of the sick; Nurses' aides; Nursing; Handbook; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323811064
• Related ISBNs: 032381106X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.