Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

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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.

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    Chapter organization breaks material into manageable portions, improving your ability to retain important information

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    More images depicting culturally diverse patients and care takers increase the variety of persons represented in the textbook

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    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

1. Health Care Agencies

2. 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

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