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With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of the patient or resident as a person, communication, safety, comfort, effective delegation, and teamwork and time management. This edition provides expanded content on the person's rights and pressure ulcers. The updated companion CD includes three new procedures, an updated audio glossary, and more. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants makes nurse assisting easy to learn.Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant.A clear, readable writing style is supplemented with hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations.Over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.Skills on the NNAAP® exam are highlighted throughout and have been updated to match the 2012 test plan.Delegation Guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.Teamwork and Time Management boxes indicate ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members.Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care.Caring About Culture boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care.Focus on Children and Older Persons boxes provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings.Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team.Key abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book. Key terms introduce chapter content with the important words and phrases.Chapter Review Questions are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and studying for a test or the competency evaluation.CD icons indicate skills included on the companion CD.Video clip icons indicate skills for which video clips are included on the free Evolve companion website.Video icons indicate skills included in the Mosby's Nursing Assistant Video Skills 3.0 DVDs (sold separately).The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises and activities that challenge you to remember what you've learned. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for each procedure in the textbook. The Competency Evaluation Review includes content review, skills evaluation review, and two practice exams. Sold separately.NEW! The Person's Rights and Pressure Ulcers chapters provides expanded information on these key areas.NEW Focus on PRIDE boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, family, and yourself.Two laminated, pocket-sized cards include information on normal vital signs, common measurement conversions, positioning, the 24-hour clock, and abdominal and lateral regions.Updated companion CD contains interactive procedures, including three new procedures, learning exercises, an updated audio glossary, and a new Spanish audio glossary with phrases and terms. An updated A&P review, Body Spectrum, is available on the CD and on the Evolve companion website.

The perfect companion to Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, this exemplary study tool helps you better understand the concepts, techniques, and disease processes detailed in the textbook.

Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this contemporary introduction to cooking and food preparation focuses on information that is relevant to today's aspiring chef. Comprehensive and well-written, it emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, explores the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food science. This introduction to cooking outlines professionalism, food safety and sanitation, nutrition, recipes and menus, tools and equipment, knife skills, kitchen staples, dairy products, principles of meat, fish and vegetable cookery, garde manger, baking, and presentation.  Exciting, new features to this updated edition include: Healthy Cooking chapter (Chapter 23) combines materials on basic nutrition (Chapter 3 in On Cooking, 4th edition), healthy cooking techniques and cooking for special diets such as vegetarian diets or allergic diets.  Over 250 new photographs emphasize procedural aspects of cooking.  Virtually all recipes are now illustrated with photographs.    Updated concept changes to meet the Food Code revision (Chapter 20)  Fresh design, including over 300 new photographs and line drawings Content updates to reflect current trends in the Culinary Arts This book is an excellent reference for Chefs, Restaurant Managers and others in the food service industry.

Mastering the theory and application of electrical concepts is necessary for a successful career in the electrical installation or industrial maintenance fields, and this new fifth edition of DELMAR'S STANDARD TEXTBOOK OF ELECTRICITY delivers! Designed to teach by blending concepts relating to electrical theory and principles with practical 'how to' information that prepares you for situations commonly encountered on the job. Topics span all the major aspects of the electrical field including atomic structure and basic electricity, direct and alternating current, basic circuit theory, three-phase circuits, single phase, transformers, generators, and motors. This revision retains all the hallmarks of our market-leading prior editions and includes enhancements such as updates to the 2011 NEC, a new chapter on industry orientation, and new coverage of constant-current transformers and fuel cells as well as tips on energy efficiency throughout the text

 The new, revised edition of this extremely popular all-in-one text for the practical/vocational nursing curriculum has everything to meet the needs of students and instructors.  The text, which is part of Lippincott’s Pathways for LPN/LVN Education Series, contains information on all the critical areas in the curriculum—Anatomy & Physiology, Fundamentals, Skills, Adult Health, Growth and Development, Mental Health, Maternity and Pediatrics, and Geriatric Considerations.  Based heavily on the NCLEX-PN framework, this highly-visual new edition features short chapters with easily digestible content including review questions, features, and alerts for reinforcement of important content.  The text is accompanied by a robust student Workbook and a comprehensive, turn-key ancillary program to help teachers teach and students learn!  A special feature of the new edition is the inclusion of NCLEX-PN Alerts, which highlight critical NCLEX-relevant content in each key area, and a voluminous Test Generator that more than doubles the number of questions in the previous edition.

Get the most out of Sorrentino's Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, and prepare for your certification exam! This chapter-by-chapter workbook and competency evaluation review reinforces your understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises and activities. It includes over 100 checklists -- one for every procedure in the text. The competency evaluation review helps you prepare for the certification exam with content review, skills evaluation review, and practice exams. Comprehensive coverage corresponds chapter-by-chapter to the textbook. A wide variety of exercises enhances learning and keeps you interested. Over 100 procedure checklists allow step-by-step review of each procedure and for instructor and/or self-evaluation. Optional learning exercises are provided for longer programs and/or higher-level students. Independent learning activities in every chapter allow additional review and practice. Competency evaluation review section includes content review and review questions for all key topics as well as two practice exams that help to prepare you for the written certification exam; the skills evaluation review helps you practice the procedures you may be required to perform for certification.

This concise clinical companion to the twelfth edition of Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing presents nearly 200 diseases and disorders in alphabetical format, allowing rapid access to need-to-know information on the most commonly clinical problems nurses are likely to encounter. The content is completely cross-referenced to the main text. Pages are tabbed alphabetically for speedy reference.