Publisher's Synopsis
This best-selling, ability-based text, with a complete learning package, has been thoroughly updated and expanded to provide comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills required for working as a nursing assistant in acute care, long-term care, or home health care setting. The inviting, four-colour design, with screened procedures, additional colour photographs and drawings, highlighted key terms, and bulleted lists, make the text easy to read and motivates students to learn. A new section has been added on study skills to help students to develop and improve these vital skills. Over 150 updated and complete procedures for clinical settings are included. The units on long-term care, home health care, nutrition, law and ethics, and sustance abuse have been updated and expanded.;This book should be of interest to student nurses.
