Main description:

Reinforce your understanding of essential nurse assisting skills and competencies! Corresponding to the chapters in Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 7th Edition, this workbook uses a variety of exercises, activities, and review questions to help you get the most out of your textbook. Checklists make it easier to study and practice each of the 75 procedures in the text. And the Competency Evaluation Review section helps you prepare for the certification exam with a review of content, skills evaluation, and two practice exams! Answers are included for all review questions and practice exams.

Wide variety of exercises reinforces your understanding of important concepts with matching, multiple-choice, labeling, fill-in-the-blank, and case study questions, plus crossword puzzles.
Competency Evaluation Review section includes a review of content, review questions for all key topics, skills evaluation, and more.
Two practice examinations help you study for the written certification exam.
Procedure Checklists help you prepare for the demonstration portion of the certification exam.
Answers are provided for the review and exam questions included in the Competency Evaluation Review section.

NEW exercises cover new chapters in the Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 7th Edition textbook.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Health Care

2. The Person's Rights

3. The Nursing Assistant

4. Ethics and Laws

5. Student and Work Ethics

6. Communicating with the Person

7. Health Team Communications

8. (NEW) Medical Terminology

9. Body Structure and Function

10. The Older Person

11. Safety Needs

12. Preventing Falls

13. Restraint Alternatives and Restraints

14. Preventing Infection

15. (NEW) Isolation Precautions

16. Body Mechanics

17. Moving the Person

18. Transferring the Person

19. The Person's Unit

20. (NEW) Bedmaking

21. (NEW) Oral Hygiene

22. Daily Hygiene and Bathing

23. Grooming

24. (NEW) Dressing and Undressing

25. Urinary Needs

26. Urinary Catheters

27. Bowel Needs

28. Nutrition

29. (NEW) Meeting Nutrition Needs

30. Fluid Needs

31. Measurements

32. Exercise and Activity Needs

33. (NEW) Comfort and Rest Needs

34. Collecting Specimens

35. Wound Care

36. Pressure Injuries

37. Oxygen Needs

38. Rehabilitation Needs

39. Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems

40. Common Health Problems

41. Mental Health Disorders

42. Confusion and Dementia

43. Emergency Care

44. End-of-Life Care

45. Getting a Job

Procedure Checklists

Competency Evaluation Review

Textbook Chapters Review

Practice Examination 1

Practice Examination 2

Skills Evaluation Review

Answers to Review Questions in Textbook Chapters Review

Answers to Practice Examination 1

Answers to Practice Examination 2