Nursing Home Care

When Your Loved One Has Dementia: A Simple Guide for Caregivers

Eighty percent of persons with dementia live at home, and the family members caring for them are often overwhelmed by the enormous responsibility and the complexities of care. This book is designed to support the caregivers and help them understand the needs and feelings of the person for whom they are caring. A central focus is the goal of sustaining a loving family relationship between the caregiver and the patient.

Developed from a training program for professionals and family caregivers, this book teaches the basics of dementia care while emphasizing communication, understanding and acceptance, and personal growth through the caregiving experience. The result is a guide that integrates the practicalities of caregiving with the human emotions that accompany it.

Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants - Soft Cover Version

Comprehensive in scope, yet easy to read, this trusted resource is all you need to prepare for success in nurse assisting. This engaging text highlights the teamwork and communication vital to your role on the nursing team while detailing over 100 skills you need to provide safe, effective care.

• A comprehensive approach to nurse assisting provides complete coverage of all skills needed in a single resource.
• The clear, engaging, 7th grade writing style enhances comprehension.
• Nearly 1,000 full-color photographs and illustrations visually reinforce concepts and make content easier to understand.
• Over 100 procedures guide you step-by-step through essential skills, with complicated tasks presented in manageable segments for easier learning.
• Caring About Culture boxes help you provide care in a manner sensitive to the beliefs and customs of a variety of diverse cultures.
• Delegation guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.
• Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for ensuring safe, effective patient care.
• Focus On... boxes address the special needs of children, older persons, long-term care residents, and home care patients.
• Charting examples demonstrate the proper methods for accurately recording patient information and data.
• An appendix on Spanish health care terminology provides information needed to communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and broadens the scope of your caring abilities.
• Chapter Review Questions assess your understanding and identify subjects requiring further study.
• The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review, sold separately, enhances your learning with engaging activities, procedure checklists, and a competency review with questions, two practice exams plus a skills review that prepare you for certification.

• Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help you work most efficiently.
• Focus on Communication boxes present practical tips for communicating clearly and effectively with residents and patients.
• Key Abbreviations in each chapter familiarize you with abbreviations common to your daily communication.
• Focus on Ethics and Laws boxes include real-life examples that help you understand the ethical and legal considerations of practice.
• Boxes at the beginning of each chapter list procedures in the chapter and indicate which procedures are on the CD companion.
• CD icons in the procedures indicate that the skill is included on the CD companion for instant reference.
• 10 new chapters expand coverage of important techniques and disorders so you can provide effective care for the widest range of patients/residents.
• A CD companion makes learning critical procedures exciting with video clips, animations, learning exercises, an audio glossary, and an interactive A&P program.

Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))

The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home Administration: Fifth Edition

Praise for a previous edition

"Serves as an excellent study guide for students or as a source of course examination questions for the instructor...The author has skillfully taken the format of the National Association of the Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators and utilized them as a basis for this text." --Journal of Health Administration Education

This revised and updated study guide is based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to review essential concepts and practice test-taking skills. Serving as the key companion to Nursing Home Administration, 5th Edition (Springer Publishing, 2008), this up-to-the-minute guide reflects the latest changes in the domains of practice for nursing home administrators.

The Guide features:

• Over 800 test questions
• Over 1000, Key terms and concepts
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Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants

Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Nursing Assistants provides complete coverage of the nursing assistant's role in the long-term care setting. These responsibilities are addressed clearly and logically in a visually appealing format. This new edition now includes Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM packaged free with the text to make learning key procedures interactive and engaging.

• A clear and readable writing style with a 7th grade reading level makes content easily understandable.
• Includes over 100 procedures divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.
• The text highlights OBRA content throughout.
• Quality of Life boxes throughout the text address the OBRA mandate to enhance residents' overall well-being.
• Charting examples demonstrate correct recording methods to ensure accuracy in practice.
• Delegation Guidelines detail what the nursing assistant should know before accepting specific delegated tasks.
• Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes provide guidelines for techniques to promote the resident's safety and comfort.
• Focus on Rehabilitation boxes alert the student to special information and insights regarding rehabilitation care.
• Caring About Culture boxes help students learn about the various practices and preferences of people from various cultural groups.
• Residents with Dementia boxes detail special care and safety considerations for the confused resident.

• Teamwork and Time Management boxes suggest ways for nursing assistants to work more efficiently with the nursing team.
• Focus on Communication boxes provide suggestions for how to communicate with residents in a professional and caring manner.
• Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers follows OSHA's new ergonomic guidelines to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in nursing homes.
• Includes new procedures such as transferring the person from the chair or wheelchair to bed, and transferring the person to and from the toilet.
• Six new chapters include Assisting with the Nursing Process, Preventing Falls, Safe Resident Handling, Moving, and Transfers, Nutritional Support and IV Therapy, Collecting and Testing Specimens, and Hearing, Speech, and Vision Problems.
• UNIQUE! Companion CD includes 25 procedures with video, animation, and interactive exercises, plus an audio glossary and Body Spectrum, an anatomy and physiology review program.
• UNIQUE! Workbook includes a competency review section that covers content tested in most state's certification exams, along with a series of review questions.
• Appendix provides basic Spanish health care terminology.

Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review for Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants

This comprehensive workbook is keyed to the text and provides numerous exercises and questions to help students reinforce learning. Procedure checklists are included as well as questions for the Mosby's Nurse Assisting Video Series. New to this edition is a Competency Review section that will help students prepare for the certification exam.

American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving

At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled. While home caregiving provides many benefits, it takes careful planning, support, and patience.

The American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving provides the information you need to take the best possible care of an elderly, ill, or disabled person in a home setting. Written by experts from the American Medical Association, the book explains such essentials as how to:

• Plan and arrange a room to adapt to a loved one's needs
• Give medications, maintain hygiene, monitor symptoms, deal with incontinence, provide emotional support, and relieve boredom
• Choose a home healthcare provider
• Pay for home healthcare, including Medicare and Medicaid, and long-term care insurance
• Care for a person with Alzheimer's disease or a terminal illness
• Choose between alternative living arrangements such as assisted living facilities or nursing homes
• Take care of yourself, the caregiver

With advice that touches both the physical and the emotional aspects of caregiving, this supportive, practical handbook will help make the experience as successful and rewarding as possible for you and your loved one.

For more than 150 years, the American Medical Association has been the leading group of medical experts in the nation and one of the most respected health-related organizations in the world. The AMA continues to work to advance the art and science of medicine and to be an advocate for patients and the voice of physicians in the United States.

Successful Nursing Assistant Care

A student-friendly text, the second edition of Successful Nursing Assistant Care by Diana Dugan, RN is a comprehensive textbook to train nursing assistants that teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. This book emphasizes safety, privacy, and respect before and after providing care. Care guidelines are colored for easy reference, and ways to promote residents right's are emphasized. This book contains updated information on HIPAA and CDC guidelines for infection control. Organized around learning objectives, it contains creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, essential information on preventing abuse and neglect, and chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter. This textbook reflects author Diana Dugan's 15 years of experience teaching nursing assistants in community colleges, proprietary schools, and long-term care facilities.

Nursing Home Administration: Fifth Edition

This highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.

The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002; offers compelling new data on a wide array of topics ranging from websites, departmental area trends, and diet data, to risk management, major organizations in the field, drug lists, and information on diseases and disability. New sections on:

• Distinguishing delirium from dementia
• Psychosis from agitation
• GERD
• Glycemic control
• Hand washing data

Handbook of Home Health Standards: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement (Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation Guidelines for Reimbursement)

Handbook of Home Health Standards: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement includes everything the home care nurse needs to provide quality care and effectively document care based on accepted professional standards. This handbook offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines including ICD-9-CM (diagnostic) codes, OASIS considerations, service skills (including the skills of the multidisciplinary health care team), factors justifying homebound status, interdisciplinary goals and outcomes, reimbursement, and resources for practice and education. The fifth edition of this "little red book" has been updated to include new information from the most recently revised Federal Register Final Rule and up-to-date coding. All information in this handbook has been thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated.

• Offers easy-to-access and easy-to-read format that guides users step by step through important home care standards and documentation guidelines
• Provides practical tips for effective documentation of diagnoses/clinical conditions commonly treated in the home, designed to positively influence reimbursement from third party payors.
• Lists ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes, needed for completing CMS billing forms, in each body system section, along with a complete alphabetical list of all codes included in the book in an appendix.
• Incorporates hospice care and documentation standards so providers can create effective hospice documentation.
• Emphasizes the provision of quality care by providing guidelines based on the most current approved standards of care.
• Includes the most current NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses so that providers have the most accurate and up-to-date information at their fingertips.
• Identifies skilled services, including services appropriate for the multidisciplinary team to perform.
• Offers discharge planning solutions to address specific concerns so providers can easily identify the plan of discharge that most effectively meets the patient's needs.
• Lists the crucial parts of all standards that specific members of the multidisciplinary team (e.g., the nurse, social worker) must uphold to work effectively together to achieve optimum patient outcomes.
• Resources for care and practice direct providers to useful sources to improve patient care and/or enhance their professional practice.
• Each set of guidelines includes patient, family, and caregiver education so that health care providers can supply clients with necessary information for specific problems or concerns.
• Communication tips identify quantifiable data that assists in providing insurance case managers with information on which to make effective patient care decisions.
• Several useful sections make the handbook thorough and complete: medicare guidelines; home care definitions, roles, and abbreviations; NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses; guidelines for home medial equipment and supplies.
• Small size for convenient carrying in bag or pocket!

• Provides the most up-to-date information about the newest and predominant reimbursement mechanisms in home care: the Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Pay For Performance (P4P).
• Updated terminology, definitions, and language to reflect the federal agency change from Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other industry changes.
• Includes the most recent NANDA diagnoses and OASIS form and documentation explanations.
• New interdisciplinary roles have been added, such as respiratory therapist and nutritionist.,/LI>