- NEW! Exercises covering textbook chapter Getting a Job provide guidance on career management starting with how to obtain work after finishing schooling. - NEW! Math exercises increase your familiarity with common formulas and calculations found on the job.

With its highly visual format, topical information, and easy-to-follow guidance, Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition is the perfect resource to help you master the ins and outs of long-term care. One hundred step-by-step procedures — all written at the sixth-grade reading level — provide clear instructions for completing skills. Helpful spotlight boxes and realistic patient scenarios reinforce the nursing assistant's roles and responsibilities that are needed in today's long-term care settings. New features in this edition include an all-new chapter on culture and religion; a new chapter on career management and getting hired; new procedures; and updated content on topical issues like confusion and dementia, hypertension, American Heart Association CPR, cancer, and more. As with previous editions, the focus on OBRA content and patient quality of life will underscore competent and respectful care. - 6th grade reading level and concise coverage helps readers of all levels and abilities (particularly ESL individuals) easily understand and master important long-term care concepts and procedures. - 100 step-by-step procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning. - Residents with Dementia boxes cover the special needs of older persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. - Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the need to provide safe care while making a patient more comfortable. - Delegation Guidelines boxes describe what information the nursing assistant needs from the nurse and the care plan to perform safe care; as well as what information to report and record. - Quality-of-Life boxes reinforce the importance of patients' rights and enhancing their quality of life when giving care. - Teamwork and Time Management boxes illustrate ways to work efficiently within the health care team. - Time to Reflect scenarios present realistic patient situations faced by nursing assistants to build critical thinking skills. - Focus on Rehabilitation boxes clarify considerations and insights about rehabilitation and restorative care. - Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with patients and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable. - NATCEP certification exam icons identify the skills tested on the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program and state certification exams. - Review questions at the end of each chapter help evaluate learning. - Key abbreviations at the beginning of each chapter highlight commonly used abbreviations.

Using a unique collaborative care approach to adult health nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 8th Edition covers the essential knowledge you need to succeed at the RN level of practice. Easy-to-read content includes evidence-based treatment guidelines, an enhanced focus on QSEN competencies, and an emphasis on developing clinical judgment skills. This edition continues the book’s trendsetting tradition with increased LGBTQ content and a new Care of Transgender Patients chapter. Written by nursing education experts Donna Ignatavicius and M. Linda Workman, this bestselling text also features NCLEX® Exam-style challenge questions to prepare you for success on the NCLEX Exam. Cutting-edge coverage of the latest trends in nursing practice and nursing education prepares you not just for today’s nursing practice but also for tomorrow’s.

Providing a complete study guide and certification review in one book, Sorrentino's easy-to-use Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review is the perfect chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 6th Edition. Understand and apply the skills and procedures you've learned and prepare for your certification exam with engaging review questions, exercises, and valuable self-assessment opportunities. UNIQUE! Bonus Competency Evaluation Review section includes a content review and review questions to help you prepare for your certification exam. A wide variety of exercises including Multiple-Choice, Matching, Fill-in-the-Blank, Crossword Puzzles, and Labeling help you review and test your understanding of textbook content. UNIQUE! CD icons highlight procedures that can be reviewed on the companion CD for greater clarity. Procedure Checklists help you review each procedure step-by-step. Independent Learning Activities challenge you to apply what you've learned to practice. Optional Learning Exercises provide a more detailed review of textbook content for better understanding. Video icons direct you to corresponding video clips on the free companion Evolve Resources website for an enhanced review experience.

Get a complete study guide and certification review in one book with the Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 7th Edition. Engaging review questions, exercises, and valuable independent learning activities go beyond the textbook and build critical thinking skills to prepare you for your certification exam and clinical practice. A variety of activities and exercises including multiple-choice questions, matching, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, crossword puzzles, and labeling to enhance learning. Competency Evaluation Review section prepares you for certification exam without requiring you to purchase an additional text. Procedure checklists provide step-by-step list for completing skills for detailed instructor or self-evaluation of performance skills from the textbook. Procedure checklists icons alert you to additional sources and skills on companion CD or Evolve video clips for review prior to practicing the skill. Optional learning exercises and mini-case studies highlight concepts and skills within each chapter so you can apply concepts and build critical thinking skills. Independent learning activities in every chapter promote critical thinking with optional higher level study opportunities for those programs or learners wishing to go beyond the basic competency level.

Providing a complete study guide and certification review in one book, Sorrentino's easy-to-use Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review is the perfect chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants, 6th Edition. Understand and apply the skills and procedures you've learned and prepare for your certification exam with engaging review questions, exercises, and valuable self-assessment opportunities. UNIQUE! Bonus Competency Evaluation Review section includes a content review and review questions to help you prepare for your certification exam. A wide variety of exercises including Multiple-Choice, Matching, Fill-in-the-Blank, Crossword Puzzles, and Labeling help you review and test your understanding of textbook content. UNIQUE! CD icons highlight procedures that can be reviewed on the companion CD for greater clarity. Procedure Checklists help you review each procedure step-by-step. Independent Learning Activities challenge you to apply what you've learned to practice. Optional Learning Exercises provide a more detailed review of textbook content for better understanding. Video icons direct you to corresponding video clips on the free companion Evolve Resources website for an enhanced review experience.