Download or read book The Nursing Assistant s Casebook of Elder Care written by George Mccall and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-07-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nursing assistant has a special and vital role in nursing home care. Providing continuous and close relationships with the nursing home residents, the assistance is challenged daily to solve the numerous problems that arise in working with the elderly. It is frequently the assistant who must find ways to help when residents refuse to get up, become incontinent, cannot find the dining room, cannot sleep, grieve over their families' failure to visit, argue with other residents, make excessive demands for personal care, imagine illnesses and demons, and fear death. This book is designed to help the nursing assistant and other elder care providers develop and refine the needed understanding of the elderly and how to work with them. In the everyday context of the nursing home and its residents, it identifies categories of helping opportunities, presents over 100 case studies to illustrate them, and suggests techniques that nursing assistants may use to make the most of these opportunities. The vivid, dramatic, and realistic cases are drawn from extensive field observations of nursing home residents and the work of nursing assistants, as well as from many in-depth interviews. An indispensable training and discussion guide for nursing assistants; for nurses, social workers, and other staff members of nursing homes who train and supervise nursing assistants; and for those who design and manage elderly care programs. It is also an essential resource for sociologists, psychologists, and social workers who specialize in aging or who teach courses in gerontology.

Download or read book Geriatric Nursing Assistants written by George H. Weber and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date bibliography of heretofore scattered references to nursing assistants includes literature pertinent to the construction of models to improve nursing assistant practice and emphasizes the psychosocial skills that are invaluable to the nursing assistant's work. Annotated reviews center on the tasks and context of nursing assistant work and ways to improve practice through training, organizational development, advocacy, and bargaining. Additional chapters present a tentative psychosocial model of nursing assistant practice, offer six intervention models, and investigate ways of further developing the nursing assistant occupation. Very highly recommended. Choice The role of the nursing home has expanded in the late twentieth century due to both the growing percentage of elderly in the U.S. population and to society's tendency to over-institutionalize people. In recent years, the kinds and quality of care given to the elderly in nursing homes have received intense scrutiny. This timely bibliography focuses on nursing assistants--the personnel who are with the elderly around the clock, doing a variety of tasks, ranging from helping them with basic functions to comforting them during periods of distress. Nursing assistants provide as much as 90 percent of the direct care received by the elderly in the nursing home setting. Emphasizing the psychosocial skills that make the nursing assistant's job so important to the well being of nursing home residents, Geriatric Nursing Assistants collects and annotates the heretofore scattered references to nursing assistants and includes literature pertinent to the construction of models that improve nursing-assistant practice. The first four chapters present the annotated reviews, which are organized in anticipation of the practice enhancement models discussed in Chapter Six. These reviews center on the tasks and context of the nursing assistant's work and on ways to improve practice through training, organizational development, advocacy, and bargaining. Chapter Five offers a tentative psychosocial concept of nursing-assistant practice that requires further development, detailing the various resident psychosocial circumstances to which the nursing assistant might respond helpfully and the kinds of interventions and techniques which the nursing assistant might attempt. In Chapter Six, intervention models--on inservice training, organizational development, advocacy, and bargaining--are presented in ideal-typical forms that recognize the limitations of daily practice; also, these models emphasize rigorous practice and its evaluation. Activities necessary to further develop the nursing-assistant occupation, including political action, are investigated in Chapter Seven, which also considers the moral aspects of a progressive agenda for nursing assistants. This reference seeks to improve services to nursing home residents and represents a valuable, practical contribution to the geriatric field. It will be useful to nursing home administrators and directors of nursing homes who must address ways to improve the working conditions of nursing assistants; to academicians in their research, training, and advocacy efforts; and to the training directors and supervisors in the field who can directly aid nursing assistants in the acquisition of needed knowledge and skills.

Download or read book Nursing Assistant Care written by Susan Alvare and published by Hartman Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 6,000 instructors shared their ideas for the perfect nursing assistant textbook. Nursing Assistant Care is exactly what you asked for: a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains: beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed chapters organized around learning objectives and written at a low reading level creative methods to teach care and observations, promoting independence, and essential information on preventing abuse and neglect chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking and tests the chapter illnesses and common conditions in one chapter, organized by body system an entire chapter on confusion, dementia, and Alzheimer?s disease up-to-date CPR and emergency care sections a full chapter on mental health and mental illness information on developmental disabilities personal care skills housed within one chapter, as are nursing skills separate chapters for bowel and urinary elimination

Download or read book Ethical Patient Care written by Mathy D. Mezey and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of good medical care often involves professionals from various disciplines working together. Interdisciplinary health care teams can be especially valuable in managing patients with complex medical and social needs, such as older persons in hospital, community, or home settings. Such teams, however, can also complicate or even create problems because of their diverse views and responsibilities. Ethical Patient Care: A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams is designed to teach effective and responsible group decision making to clinicians working in teams to treat older patients. The editors use the case study method to present ethical dilemmas that team members encounter in the management of geriatric patients. Patients with multiple chronic conditions so often require the care of more than one medical specialist, and in the introductory chapters the editors suggest ways to resolve conflicts among patients, health care professionals, and the institutions that support them, including hospitals, HMOs, insurance companies, and the government. The book is then divided into four sections, each dealing with one angle of the team-care picture. The first section treats the diverse ethical imperatives of various professionals, conflicts among disciplinary approaches, and and varying attitudes toward end-of-life- decision making. Section two focuses on the patient and covers patient confidentiality, family decisionmaking and interaction with the healthcare team, issues of patient and team nonadherence to the care plan, and elder abuse and neglect. Section three examines the emerging difficulties of decentralized health care in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and the home, including clinician accountability and how ethical dilemmas differ across settings. Section four discusses the problems arising from the increasing responsibility of clinicians to manage costs and serve the interests of hospitals and insurers. Ethical Patient Care is a valuable resource for bioethicists, gerontologists, and the physicians, nurses, social workers, and therapists who care for aging persons.

Download or read book Exploring with Certified Nursing Assistants the Caring Aspects of Their Work with the Elderly in the Nursing Home Setting written by Laurie Jane Broberg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essentials for the Nursing Assistant in Long term Care written by Shirley A. Badasch and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read book was designed for fast comprehension and retention of the skills and procedures necessary for the nurse aide in the long term care industry, including a self-paced workbook to reinforce the book. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Resource Kit ISBN: 0-8273-5633-1 Workbook ISBN: 0-8273-5632-3 Computerized Testbank ISBN: 0-8273-6393-1

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Download or read book Nursing Assistant Inservices for Long Term Care written by LTCS Books and published by LTCS Books. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Seventh Edition. 21 Complete Inservices: Abuse, Activities of Daily Living, Catheter Care and UTIs, Cognitive Impairment, Constipation, Falls, Feeding, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Hydration, Pain Care, Range of Motion, Resident Rights, Restraints, Sensory and Communication Impairments, Sexual Harassment and Professional Communication, Skin Care, Standard Precautions, Transfers and Lifts, Urinary Incontinence, Wandering, Workplace Violence. For the Nursing Instructor: Objectives and Outline, Lesson Notes and Handouts, Pre-test, Post-test, and Answer Key. Each topic packet includes everything needed to give an entire long term care inservice. Current with all RAI Manual Updates, Surveyor Guidelines and Federal Regulatory Changes. The Long Term Care Inservices book gives all of the basic information needed to fulfill the requirements of the Staff Development position in a long term care facility for nursing assistant training. Long term care inservice forms to facilitate scheduling, planning, assessment, and evaluation of inservices are included. The twenty-one long term care inservice topics include the basic inservices given yearly at most long term care facilities for nursing assistant training. The long term care inservices material is focused on the learning needs of nursing assistants, and uses the language of the Minimum Data Set MDS 3.0 and Nursing Care Plan, encouraging consistency in the long term care health care team approach. Quality Assurance expectations are reflected in the lessons, making quality of care a priority as well as meeting regulatory expectations. Each Long Term Care Inservice topic section contains all of the instructor’s material and all of the handouts, so each inservice could be duplicated or printed from the CD.

Download or read book Helping Your Elderly Patients written by Judith M. Conahan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nursing Assistant Textbook written by Jane John-Nwankwo and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered:1 Introduction to Nurse Assistant ??????????????????.2 Patient/Resident Rights ?????????????????????.3 Communication/Interpersonal Skills ????????????????.4 Prevention and Management of Catastrophe and Unusual Occurrences5 Body Mechanics ????????????????????????.6 Medical and Surgical Asepsis ???????????????????7 Weights and Measures ??????????????????????8 Patient Care Skills ??????????????????????? ..9 Patient Care Procedures ?????????????????????.10 Vital Signs ??????????????????????????11 Nutrition ??????????????????????????...12 Emergency Procedures ?????????????????????.13 Long Term Care Patient/Resident ????????????????14 Rehabilitative Nursing ?????????????????????.15 Observation and Charting ????????????????????16 Death and Dying ???????????????????????17 Patient/Resident Abuse ?.

Download or read book Nursing Assistant Textbook written by Ph D Jane John-Nwankwo, RN and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered: 1 Introduction to Nurse Assistant ....................................................... 2 Patient/Resident Rights ................................................................ 3 Communication/Interpersonal Skills ................................................. 4 Prevention and Management of Catastrophe and Unusual Occurrences 5 Body Mechanics ......................................................................... 6 Medical and Surgical Asepsis ......................................................... 7 Weights and Measures .................................................................. 8 Patient Care Skills ..................................................................... .. 9 Patient Care Procedures ................................................................ 10 Vital Signs .............................................................................. 11 Nutrition ................................................................................. 12 Emergency Procedures ................................................................ 13 Long Term Care Patient/Resident ................................................ 14 Rehabilitative Nursing ................................................................ 15 Observation and Charting ............................................................ 16 Death and Dying ..................................................................... 17 Patient/Resident Abuse ................................................................

Download or read book The Nurse s Assistant written by Catherine E. G. Gray and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly people are entering nursing facilities all across America each day and are usually fearful because of what they have heard about nursing homes of the past. This book has been written to share their stories and give you insight into preparing your loved ones for their stay in a nursing home. There are many considerations when choosing a place for your loved one. If you have time to plan and choose where they will stay, many issues can be decided on right from the start on their behalf. If their stay with the facility was unplanned and sudden, you should know about life in a nursing home and the general atmosphere of these new homes so your mind can be at ease. Not everything about these places is negative and depressing anymore. People go into these homes with every bit of their old personality that they had when they were younger. Many times their sense of humor is just as active as it has ever been. There are many reasons to laugh and be filled with joy during these latter years of their lives. Much activity and entertainment is provided in nursing homes to keep your loved ones busy. Many of our elderly have moved into these homes and made the best of it. They make friends and get involved in the activities. Not a day passes where they are not making us laugh or vice versa. These homes are not just about keeping some people alive while others are waiting around to die. It is about people helping people. It is about bonding. Friendships are developed that are never forgotten. It is not always about how the nursing staff can help America's elderly. It is often about how they have helped us. We cry on their shoulders at times and they help us through some of the worse times of our lives. Not only because they have been there but their wisdom far surpasses that of the younger generation. They listen to our stories as much as we listen to theirs. Many times when they pass away we suffer grief over their loss as you do but for different reasons. I hope this book will be enjoyed not only by the families of the elderly, but also the future certified nurse's aides and the elderly themselves. This book is a work of fiction based on my experience as a nurse's aide. Some of the stories are from other nurse's aides in other parts of the country. However, the administrative issues and descriptions of the job itself are accurate.

Download or read book Mosby s Textbook for Long Term Care Nursing Assistants E Book written by Clare Kostelnick and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW! Updated photographs and illustrations show the latest equipment and supplies used in caring for long-term care residents. NEW! Basic Emergency Care chapter has new, vital information on controlling bleeding and the Stop the Bleed program, as well as a description of equipment used in medical emergencies. NEW! Preventing Infection chapter includes updates on PPE and changes to procedures related to COVID-19. NEW! Mental Health Problems chapter adds information on dealing with individuals experiencing emotional pain and suicide prevention, as well as expanded information on types of depression. NEW! Nutrition chapter adds new information on residents experiencing dysphagia, including current guidelines from the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI).

Download or read book Workbook for Hartman s Nursing Assistant Care written by Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lippincott s Textbook for Nursing Assistants written by Pamela J. Carter and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook for nursing assistants will prepare students not only to function in the traditional nursing assistant role in nursing homes, hospitals, and home health, but also will prepare students to advance their careers. A nursing assistant student who uses this text will have a firm foundation by which to transition to an LPN and ultimately an RN role. The text offers a compelling art program, a direct, conversational writing style, and an emphasis on professionalism and humanism. A back-of-book CD-ROM includes an audio glossary.

Download or read book Mosby s Essentials for Nursing Assistants E Book written by Leighann Remmert and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the role and responsibilities of today’s nursing assistant! Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 7th Edition provides concise, easy-to-understand guidelines for the skills performed by nursing assistants. Step-by-step procedures are included for more than 75 key procedures, and patient scenarios help you apply your knowledge and develop critical thinking skills. A primary focus is the importance of treating residents with respect while providing safe, competent, and efficient care. And with OBRA-mandated coverage of the concepts and skills you need to master, you will prepare for success on state certification exams! Clear, easy-to-read style is supplemented with hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations. More than 75 step-by-step procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning. Focus on PRIDE boxes emphasize personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws, helping you promote dignity and pride in the person being cared for, his or her family, and yourself. Focus on Practice: Problem Solving present patient scenarios to enhance critical thinking skills, and allow you to apply concepts to practice. Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care. Focus on Older Persons boxes provide guidance on the special needs of older persons, including those with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for communicating clearly with residents, visitors, and the nursing team. Caring About Culture boxes help in providing care that is sensitive to the beliefs and customs of diverse cultures. Delegation Guidelines identify the nursing assistant’s specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks. Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant’s role during state inspections. NATCEP (Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program) icons shown in the title bar of procedures indicate the skills covered most often on certification exams. Review questions in each chapter cover what you have learned, and are useful in studying for a test or for the competency evaluation. Key terms and abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book. NEW! Streamlined chapter organization includes shorter, more focused chapters. NEW! Enhanced art program includes updated photos and illustrations.

Download or read book The Pathway to Elderly Care Services written by Melinda Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book ``The Pathway to Elderly Health Care", revolves around; Assisted Living Homes, Nursing Homes and Private Care in your home. There are also some definitions of terms that may be helpful for clearer understanding to be able to help you make informed decisions when making plans for elder care. I am a Certified Nursing Assistant, Geriatric Nursing Assistant and have an AA degree in General Studies. This book will will be helpful with the preparations towards their journey into their golden years ahead.