Being a Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant

Being a Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant, 5/e

Connie Will-Black
Judith B. Eighmy, President, Pacific Healthcare Consultants

Written by nurses currently practicing and teaching in the long-term care field, this basic skills text focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to do the day-to-day job of a certified nursing assistant in a long-term care facility. It's full-color, extensively illustrated format, accessible reading level, and the consistent format of each section make the text particularly appropriate for today's adult learners. Meeting all required curriculum as outlined by federal regulators, Being A Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant is ideal for certification exam preparation.

New to the Fifth Edition

• Comprehensive chapters on end-of-life care and certification exam preparation.
• Chapter summaries, case studies, and multiple-choice questions.
• The Center for Disease Control's guidelines for Standard and Transmission Based precautions.
• Chapter opening features that highlight practical ways to carry out safe and effective procedures with tips from instructors from around the country.
• A margin glossary to call attention to key words and their definitions at the point of use.
• Chapter-ending summaries and self-study questions.
• A comprehensive Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/will-black) that provides a variety of study questions with immediate feedback, hyperlinks, and an audio glossary.

Other Titles of Interest
Grubbs/Blasband, The Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant, 2/e, 2000 (0-13-013253-5)
Wolgin, Being a Nursing Assistant, 8/e, 2000 (0-13-084083-1)

Covers subacute care & emergency care/care of residents w/limited life expectancy/restorative nursing/etc.

Written by nurses currently practicing and teaching in the long-term care field, this basic skills book focuses on the basic knowledge and skills needed to do the day-to-day job of a certified nursing assistant in a long-term care facility (and is not an acute-care book adapted for long-term care use). Content meets curriculum as required by federal regulators and prepares readers to take the certification examination. It features a consistent approach in which each systems chapter first discusses the normal anatomy and physiology of the body system; then presents age-related changes and common abnormalities, along with related nursing-care guidelines and step-by-step procedures. The book's full-color, extensively illustrated format, accessible reading level, and short manageable sections in a consistent format make it particularly appropriate for today's adult learners.

Your Working Environment; Special Needs of the Elderly and Chronically Ill; Basic Nursing Care; Anatomy, Physiology, Cancer, and the Senses; The Integumentary System; The Skeletal System; The Muscular System; The Digestive System; The Urinary System; The Nervous System; The Respiratory System; The Cardiovascular System; The Endocrine System; The Reproductive System and Human Sexuality; Developmental Disabilities; The Restorative Nursing Assistant; Subacute and Emergency Care in the Long-Term Care Facility; End-of-Life Care; and Preparing for the Certification Examination.

For nurses and nursing assistants.

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Written by nurses currently working in the long-term care field, this textbook covers the working environment, the needs of the elderly and chronically ill, basic nursing care, anatomy and physiology, biological systems, developmental disabilities, restorative nursing care, subacute and emergency care, and end-of-life care. The book reflects federal curriculum requirements and provides guidance on preparing for the certification exam. In addition, a pocket survival guide is included which serves as a reference for medical terminology and includes useful information for both emergency and day-to-day procedures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Connie A. Will-Black, RN, BSN, PHN, is a graduate of California State University at Long Beach and has been active in long-term care as a nursing consultant, educator, and owner for the past 25 years. Mrs. Black's teaching experience includes nursing education in both acute and long-term care settings as well as in community colleges. As CEO of Community Hospice Care, Mrs. Black created a large Medicare Certified Hospice program in Southern California. This program served thousands of terminally ill patients, both those who lived in their own homes, and those in retirement facilities and in long-term care facilities. Her commitment to education created a large group of professional staff with expertise in end-of-life care who continues to serve dying patients throughout Southern California. Although Connie did not participate in this 5th edition, her knowledge and philosophy of care are reflected throughout the book.

Judith B. Eighrny, RN, BSN, CHPN, is a graduate of Texas Woman's University and has completed course work for her master's degree in nursing from California State University at Los Angeles. She is certified in hospice and palliative care nursing. Ms. Eighmy has been a nursing consultant and educator in long-term care and hospice for more than 25 years. In addition to teaching numerous continuing education courses for health care professionals in long-term care and hospice, she has taught in the acute care setting and in the university as well as in a school of nursing. She has developed quality assessment and improvement programs for long-term care facilities and hospice programs. Ms. Eighmy is active in her professional organization and widely recognized for her expertise in training and in care of the elderly and end-of-life care. She serves as an advisory board member and consultant to Medcom, Inc., of Cypress, California, in the development of education programs for long-term care. She is currently president of her consulting firm, Pacific Healthcare Consultants, Inc., where she and her partner Elayne Nahman, LCSW, serve hospice programs in California.