Known for its comprehensive coverage, readability, and visual presentation, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 11th Edition helps prepare you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings - and includes a practice scenario in each chapter to enhance your clinical judgment skills. It’s the most comprehensive text for CNA programs, packed with step-by-step instructions for more than 100 procedures. Lifespan coverage includes skills not only for adults and older residents, but also for maternity and pediatric patients, so you can be comfortable working in a variety of care settings. Shorter, more focused chapters allow you to learn in manageable portions and an enhanced art program clarifies important concepts and procedural steps.
- NEW! Chapter organization breaks material into manageable portions, improving your ability to retain important information.
- NEW! More images depicting culturally diverse patients and care takers increase the variety of persons represented in the textbook.
- NEW! Shorter, more focused chapters help you retain important concepts and skills covered in the NATCEP certification exam.
- Complete coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to pass the state certification exam and engage in safe practice.
- Clear writing at a seventh-grade reading level ensures accessibility for low-level learners.
- More than 100 skills outlined in pre-procedure and post-procedure sections ensure you learn all the necessary steps to pass the skills portion of the certification exam.
- Focus on Math feature reviews mathematical calculations needed in various care measures and procedures.
- Getting a Job chapter covers the soft skills needed to seek and obtain employment.
- Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant role during state inspections.
- Focus on Practice: Problem Solving scenarios stimulate critical thinking about common situations encountered during practice.
- Focus on PRIDE: The Person, Family, and Yourself boxes build on chapter concepts to help promote pride in the nursing assistant, the resident, and the resident’s family.
- Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the importance of the patient’s or resident’s safety and comfort.
- Delegation Guidelines detail the specifics of accepting delegated tasks.
- Focus on Children and Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.
- Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in the long-term and home care settings.
- Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable.
- Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help you learn about the various practices of other cultures.
- Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help nursing assistants work most efficiently, whether independently or as part of the nursing team.
- Chapter review questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter.
Table of Contents
1. Health Care Agencies2. The Person’s Rights
3. The Nursing Assistant
4. Delegation
5. Ethics and Laws
6. Student and Work Ethics
7. The Person and Family
8. Health Team Communications
9. Medical Terminology
10. Body Structure and Function
11. Growth and Development
12. The Older Person
13. The Person’s Unit
14. Safety
15. Preventing Falls
16. Restraint Alternatives and Restraints
17. Preventing Infection
18. Isolation Precautions
19. Safe Handling and Positioning
20. Moving the Person
21. Transferring the Person
22. Bedmaking
23. Oral Hygiene
24. Daily Hygiene and Bathing
25. Grooming
26. Changing Garments
27. Urinary Needs
28. Urinary Catheters
29. Bowel Needs
30. Nutrition
31. Meeting Nutrition Needs
32. Fluid Needs
33. Nutritional Support and IV Therapy
34. Vital Signs
35. Exercise and Activity
36. Comfort, Rest, and Sleep
37. Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
38. Assisting With the Physical Examination
39. Collecting and Testing Specimens
40. The Person Having Surgery
41. Wound Care
42. Pressure Injuries
43. Heat and Cold Applications
44. Oxygen Needs
45. Respiratory Support and Therapies
46. Rehabilitation Needs
47. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems
48. Cancer, Immune System, and Skin Disorders
49. Nervous System and Musculo-Skeletal Disorders
50. Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Lymphatic Disorders
51. Digestive and Endocrine Disorders
52. Urinary and Reproductive Disorders
53. Mental Health Disorders
54. Confusion and Dementia
55. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
56. Caring for Mothers and Babies
57. Assisted Living
58. Emergency Care
59. End-of-Life Care
60. Getting a Job
