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Master the skills and concepts for success with ease! Featuring a wide variety of review questions, active learning exercises, and procedure checklists, this engaging workbook helps you ensure a confident, competent understanding of the concepts, skills, and vocabulary detailed in Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition . Multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions challenge your retention of textbook content and help you prepare for tests and exams. Think About It! exercises inspire critical thinking and enhance your analytical skills. Matching activities, word jumbles, and crossword and word find puzzles provide fun, engaging ways to review important concepts and vocabulary. Labeling, sequencing, and identification exercises clarify procedures and processes. Procedure checklists reinforce key protocols and help you excel in laboratory exercises. Pam's pearls boost your confidence with encouraging insight based on the author’s real-life experience.

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Streamline the path to a successful nursing assistant career with this concise, approachable text. Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 5th edition, delivers the foundational concepts and facts that a nursing assistant needs to competently and compassionately function in a long-term care facility, acute care facility, or home health agency. Ideal for use in shorter, fast-paced programs, each chapter focuses on only the most essential concepts, breaking down information into segments for easier retention. Author Pamela Carter’s conversational, yet professional writing style clarifies complex material to make information more accessible. Helpful Procedures and Guidelines boxes provide step-by-step walkthroughs for common tasks and detail the rationale behind key procedure actions in order to enhance understanding and strengthen clinical decision-making capabilities. The 5th edition has been revised and updated to reflect today’s changing healthcare practices — including the latest NNAAP® skill revisions and features callouts to Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants, a companion ebook-only text by Pamela Carter that highlights advanced skills and situations that may call for additional training as students advance through their nursing assistant careers. NEW! Taking It to the Next Level: Advanced Skills call out skills and situations that require additional training and corresponding information in the advanced companion ebook, Lippincott Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants, available on thePoint. NEW! Updated terminology keeps pace with changes in healthcare. NEW! Updated nutrition and dietary recommendations reflect the 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the related art and descriptions of MyPlate. NEW! Updated BLS information and obstructed airway procedures comply with the 2015 American Heart Association guidelines. Procedures provide a step-by-step walkthrough for 73 common procedures in accordance with the latest clinical practices, infection control standards, and National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAP®) Skills List. Guidelines (What You Do/Why You Do It) boxes summarize the why and how of key nursing assistant actions to reinforce retention and understanding. Tell the Nurse! alert students to signs and symptoms that should be reported to a nurse. Stop and Think! scenarios encourage critical thinking and present challenges to solve complex problems that might be encountered in the nursing workplace. Nurse Pam gives reminders to empathize with patients to promote passionate, holistic care. Concerns for Long-Term Care detail specific information needed to ensure effective care of senior residents in long-term care settings. A companion Workbook reinforces understanding through multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, think about it, and matching questions, as well as crossword puzzles, word jumbles, labeling, sequencing and identification activities.

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Ensure student understanding of the concepts in Lippincott Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 5th edition with this companion Workbook. Following the same straightforward organization of the parent text, the workbook features corresponding assignments that can be easily assigned in whole or in part according to the needs of your program’s curriculum. Key learning points derived from the textbook learning objectives clearly identify the concepts being reviewed. Procedure Checklists ensure compliance with corresponding step-by-step Procedures in the text. Pam’s Pearls, words of advice and encouragement from the author, are scattered throughout to help reinforce understanding. A range of learning activities — including fill-in-the-blank, think about it, matching, crossword puzzles, word jumbles, labeling, sequencing and identification — keep students engaged and ensure an effective review for all learning styles.

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Offering a holistic, comprehensive understanding of essential skills grounded in compassionate patient care, Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition, not only equips students for success as nursing assistants in any healthcare setting but empowers them to pursue career opportunities throughout the healthcare field. Easy to read and rich with dynamic images and illustrations, this straightforward, conversational text clarifies the technical, communication, and critical thinking skills behind successful nursing assisting while fostering the humanistic perspective integral to meeting the individual needs of patients, residents, and clients. Proven learning aids throughout the text help students master critical information, accompanied by procedural guides and engaging exercises that reinforce clinical readiness. The 6th edition has been significantly updated to make essential coverage more accessible and reflect the challenges students will encounter in today’s changing healthcare environment, from the latest developments in the management of communicable diseases to the impact of social issues on nursing practice. Advancing the humanistic approach for which the text is known, new content in each chapter helps students ensure respectful, inclusive patient care to all people.

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This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.

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Developed to complement Lippincott's Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants , this workbook will engage students with its fun learning activities and innovative exercises. Fully integrated with the text, this student study tool will facilitate review and motivate students to succeed in their nursing assistant course.

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