Reinforce your understanding of essential nurse assisting skills and competencies! Corresponding to the chapters in Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, this workbook uses a variety of exercises, activities, and review questions to help you get the most out of your textbook. Checklists make it easier to study and practice each of the procedures in the text. The Competency Evaluation Review section helps you prepare for the certification exam with a review of content, skills evaluation, two practice exams, and more.
- Competency Review section includes content review and review questions for all key topics
- Two practice exams help you prepare for taking the written certification exam
- Skills Checklists offer valuable practice for the demonstration portion of the exam
- Wide variety of exercises, including case studies, matching, multiple-choice, labelling, and crossword puzzles, help you reinforce your understanding of important concepts
- Answers are provided for the review and exam questions in the Competency Evaluation Review section
- NEW and UPDATED exercises correspond to new chapters and updated content in the textbook
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Health Care2. The Person’s Rights
3. The Nursing Assistant
4. Ethics and Laws
5. Student and Work Ethics
6. Communicating with the Person
7. Health Team Communications
8. Medical Terminology
9. Body Structure and Function
10. The Older Person
11. Safety Needs
12. Preventing Falls
13. Restraint Alternatives and Restraints
14. Preventing Infection
15. Isolation Precautions
16. Body Mechanics
17. Moving the Person
18. Transferring the Person
19. The Person’s Unit
20. Bedmaking
21. Oral Hygiene
22. Daily Hygiene and Bathing
23. Grooming
24. Dressing and Undressing
25. Urinary Needs
26. Urinary Catheters
27. Bowel Needs
28. Nutrition
29. Meeting Nutrition Needs
30. Fluid Needs
31. Measurements
32. Exercise and Activity Needs
33. Comfort and Rest Needs - NEW!
34. Collecting Specimens
35. Wound Care
36. Pressure Injuries
37. Oxygen Needs
38. Rehabilitation Needs
39. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems
40. Common Health Problems
41. Mental Health Disorders
42. Confusion and Dementia
43. Emergency Care
44. End-of-Life Care
45. Getting a Job
Procedure Checklists
