Includes index.

Understanding health care settings -- The nursing assistant and the care team -- Legal and ethical issues -- Communication and cultural diversity -- Infection prevention and control-- Safety and body mechanics -- Emergency care and disaster preparation -- Human needs and human development -- The healthy human body -- Positioning, transfers, and ambulation -- Admitting, transferring, and discharging -- The resident's unit -- Personal care skills -- Basic nursing skills -- Nutrition and hydration -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Common chronic and acute conditions -- Confusion, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease -- Mental health and mental illness -- Rehabilitation and restorative care -- Special care skills -- Dying, death, and hospice -- Introduction to home care -- Infection prevention and safety in the home -- Medications in home care -- New mothers, infants, and children -- Meal planning, shopping, preparation, and storage -- The clean, safe, and healthy home environment -- Managing time, energy, and money in the home -- Caring for your career and yourself.

Hartman Publishing's most comprehensive nursing assistant training textbook includes information about long-term care, as well as home health care, and some material about subacute and acute care. This newly updated edition contains the following: - In-depth information on resident and client rights and special boxes throughout that teach ways to promote independence and prevent abuse and neglect - New information on person-centered care, which is emphasized throughout the textbook - Up-to-date, comprehensive material on infection prevention - Many new photos and more website resources - Material on anatomy and physiology with an emphasis on normal changes of aging and observing and reporting - Updated nutrition information on MyPlate, special diets, and feeding techniques - Current information on legal issues, such as HIPAA, the Patient Self-Determination Act, the Elder Justice Act, and advance directives and related medical orders - 7 chapters focusing on home health care, including information on medications, safety, infection prevention, mothers and newborns, and meal planning and preparation - 1 chapter containing subacute and acute care information, including preoperative and postoperative care, as well as mechanical ventilation, chest tubes, and artificial airways - Chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter - Significantly expanded testing section available to instructors, including 62 chapters exams (two sets of exams for each chapter), two final exams, and a critical thinking exam, along with a practice exam for students taking the certification test - A table of procedures, common abbreviations list, a special appendix with a math review, and a glossary.