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NURSING ASSISTANT A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH BARBARA ACELLO 1ST EDITION
NURSING ASSISTANT A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH BARBARA ACELLO 1ST EDITION
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, Barbara R. Hegner, MSN, RN(deceased)
Barbara Acello, MS, RN
Independent nurse consultant
and educator
Esther Caldwell, MA, PhD
Consultant in Vocational
Education
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, brief TABLE OF CONTENTS
Procedures List x Unit 24 Patient Bathing 316
About the Authors xiv Unit 25 General Comfort Measures 341
Preface xv SECTION 8 PRINCIPLES OF
Acknowledgments xviii NUTRITION, HYDRATION,
AND ELIMINATION 357
How to Use This Textbook xix
Unit 26 Urinary Elimination 358
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION TO Unit 27 Gastrointestinal Elimination 388
NURSING ASSISTING 1 Unit 28 Nutritional Needs and Diet
Unit 1 Community Health Care 2 Modifications 408
Unit 2 On the Job: Being a Nursing
SECTION 9 CARING FOR PATIENTS
Assistant 8
WITH SPECIAL NEEDS 425
Unit 3 Consumer Rights and
Responsibilities in Health Care 25 Unit 29 Caring for the Perioperative Patient 426
Unit 4 Ethical and Legal Issues Unit 30 Caring for the Emotionally
Affecting the Nursing Assistant 33 Stressed Patient 443
Unit 31 Caring for Patients with Cognitive
SECTION 2 SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES 39 Impairment and Related Conditions 454
Unit 5 Medical Terminology Unit 32 Caring for the Bariatric Patient 468
and Body Organization 40 Unit 33 Caring for the Patient
Unit 6 Classification of Disease 77 Who Is Dying 482
SECTION 3 BASIC HUMAN NEEDS SECTION 10 OTHER HEALTH CARE
AND COMMUNICATION 83 SETTINGS 491
Unit 7 Communication Skills 84 Unit 34 The Nursing Assistant in
Unit 8 Observation, Reporting, Home Care 492
and Documentation 93
SECTION 11 BODY SYSTEMS, COMMON
Unit 9 Meeting Basic Human Needs 111
DISORDERS, AND RELATED
Unit 10 Comfort, Pain, Rest, and Sleep 121
CARE PROCEDURES 503
Unit 11 Developing Cultural Sensitivity 132
Unit 35 Caring for Patients with Disorders
SECTION 4 INFECTION AND of the Integumentary System 504
INFECTION CONTROL 139 Unit 36 Caring for Patients with
Unit 12 Infection 140 Cardiopulmonary Disorders 520
Unit 13 Infection Control 154 Unit 37 Caring for Patients with
Disorders of the Musculoskeletal
SECTION 5 SAFETY AND MOBILITY 179
and Nervous Systems 540
Unit 14 Environmental and Nursing Unit 38 Caring for Patients with Disorders
Assistant Safety 180 of the Sensory Organs 565
Unit 15 Patient Safety and Positioning 193 Unit 39 Caring for Patients with Disorders
Unit 16 The Patient’s Mobility: of the Endocrine and Reproductive
Transfer Skills 221 Systems 578
Unit 17 The Patient’s Mobility: Ambulation 242
SECTION 12 EXPANDED ROLE OF THE
SECTION 6 MEASURING AND NURSING ASSISTANT 591
RECORDING VITAL SIGNS,
Unit 40 Caring for Obstetrical Patients
HEIGHT, AND WEIGHT 255
and Neonates 592
Unit 18 Body Temperature 256 Unit 41 Rehabilitation and Restorative
Unit 19 Pulse and Respiration 270 Services 612
Unit 20 Blood Pressure 277
Unit 21 Measuring Height and Weight 287 SECTION 13 RESPONSE TO BASIC
EMERGENCIES 625
SECTION 7 PATIENT CARE AND Unit 42 Response to Basic Emergencies 626
COMFORT MEASURES 295
Unit 22 Admission, Transfer, and Discharge 296 Glossary 645
Unit 23 Bedmaking 304 Index 662
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