Workbook for Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, Third Edition

418 Pages·2011·10.88 MB·English

by  Pamela J. Carter

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Third Edition
PAMELA J. CARTER, RN, BSN, MEd, CNOR
Program Coordinator/Instructor
School of Health Professions
Davis Applied Technology College
Kaysville, Utah
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Workbook for Lippincott’s Textbook for Nursing ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO
Assistants,developed alongside the textbook with APPEAL TO DIFFERENT TYPES
the aid of an instructional design team, is
OF LEARNERS
designed to help students internalize and apply
the important concepts and facts presented in
the textbook. Students will benefit from first This workbook uses several different types of
reading the assignment in the textbook and then activities to help students internalize and apply
completing the corresponding workbook assign- the information in the textbook. A wide variety
ment. This approach allows students to review of activities is important for appealing to
and reinforce the information that they have just students with different learning styles. Variety
read. In addition, after working on the workbook also helps to keep students engaged in the
assignment, students who are having difficulty assignment. Some of the activity types that you
understanding the information presented in the will find in this workbook include:
textbook will know what type of questions they ■ Multiple-choice questions:Select the
need to ask in class the following day. This
single best answer from four choices.
ability to recognize areas of difficulty helps ■ Fill-in-the-blanks:Complete a phrase or
students to better utilize instruction time.
sentence.
■ Think About It!Write a short response to a
thought-provoking “what if?” scenario.
A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION ■ True or false?Identify the true statements
and correct the false ones.
The organization of each chapter in the ■ Matching:Match the terms or pictures to
workbook follows the same organization as the their descriptions.
corresponding chapter in Lippincott’s Textbook for ■ Crossword puzzles:Decipher the clues to
Nursing Assistants.This unique organization complete the puzzle.
enhances flexibility with regard to assignments— ■ Word find puzzles:Locate key vocabulary
it is easy to assign all, or just part of, a workbook words in the grid of letters.
chapter, according to the needs of your particular ■ Word jumbles:Use the clues to rearrange
curriculum. In addition, this unique organization scrambled letters and reveal key vocabulary
allows students to identify particular areas of words.
difficulty where more clarification and review is ■ Labeling:Fill in the missing labels on a key
needed. Key Learning Points,derived from piece of artwork.
the learning objectives in the textbook, are given ■ Sequencing:Put the steps of a procedure or
for each sub-topic within the chapter and help process in the correct order.
the student to easily identify the concepts that ■ Identification:Recognize the phrases or
are being reviewed and reinforced. sentences that apply to each situation.
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iv PREFACE
Many workbooks rely heavily on multiple- the course, when students are practicing the
choice questions. Although multiple-choice procedures they have just learned.
questions are important for helping students to ■ Pam’s pearls:Scattered throughout the
prepare for the certification exam, the goal of workbook, these words of advice and encour-
this workbook is to help prepare students for agement from the author serve to reinforce
what comes after the exam. We want students to key concepts and remind students of the very
develop a depth of understanding of this important role they will play in providing
material that will serve them well in their clinical patient and resident care.
practice, long after the exam is over. Our goal is
to help promote good problem-solving abilities
Preventing the complications of
and more of a “working” application of the
immobility through frequent
material. Instructors wishing to provide their
repositioning and transferring is a major
students with additional practice in answering
responsibility of the nursing assistant!
multiple-choice questions can create worksheets
and practice tests using the multiple-choice
questions provided on the Instructor’s Resource
Answers to the activities in the Workbook for
CD and on thePoint, a web-based course and
Lippincott’s Textbook for Nursing Assistantsare
content management system
provided on the Instructor’s Resource CD and on
(http://[email protected]/Carter3e).
thePoint (http://[email protected]/Carter3e).
It is our sincere hope that students will find
completing assignments from the workbook to
OTHER KEY FEATURES be fun as well as educational. As always, we
welcome and appreciate feedback from our
In addition to a variety of activities designed to readers.
reinforce the information in Chapters 1 through
45 and Appendix B (“Introduction to the Pamela J. Carter
Language of Health Care”) of Lippincott’s Textbook Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
for Nursing Assistants,this workbook contains:
■ Procedure checklists.These checklists are
very useful during the laboratory portion of
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’d like to thank Joellen Shumway, Elizabeth Nieginski, and Eric Van Osten for their assistance
during the development of this workbook.
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CHAPTER 10
UNIT I
Patient Safety and Restraint
INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE
Alternatives 50
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 11
The Health Care System 1
Positioning, Lifting, and Transferring
Patients and Residents 55
CHAPTER 2
The Nursing Assistant 5 CHAPTER 12
Basic First Aid and Emergency Care 59
CHAPTER 3
Professionalism and
UNIT III
Job-Seeking Skills 9
BASIC PATIENT and RESIDENT CARE
CHAPTER 4
Legal and Ethical Issues 15 CHAPTER 13
The Patient or Resident Environment 65
CHAPTER 5
Communication Skills 20
CHAPTER 14
Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges 71
CHAPTER 6
Those We Care For 25
CHAPTER 15
Bedmaking 74
UNIT II
SAFETY CHAPTER 16
Vital Signs, Height, and Weight 79
CHAPTER 7
Communicable Disease and Infection CHAPTER 17
Control 32 Comfort and Rest 90
CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 18
Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens 39 Cleanliness and Hygiene 95
CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 19
Workplace Safety 43 Grooming 103
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viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 32
Basic Nutrition 109 The Digestive System 185
CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 33
Assisting With Urinary The Urinary System 192
and Bowel Elimination 117
CHAPTER 34
UNIT IV The Reproductive System 198
DEATH AND DYING
UNIT VI
CHAPTER 22
SPECIAL CARE CONCERNS
Caring for People
Who Are Terminally Ill 124 CHAPTER 35
Caring for People With
CHAPTER 23
Rehabilitation Needs 206
Caring for People Who Are Dying 127
CHAPTER 36
UNIT V Caring for People With Developmental
Disabilities 210
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE
HUMAN BODY CHAPTER 37
Caring for People
CHAPTER 24
With Mental Illness 215
Basic Body Structure and Function 132
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 25
Caring for People With Dementia 220
The Integumentary System 137
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 26
Caring for People With Cancer 226
The Musculoskeletal System 144
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 27
Caring for People With HIV/AIDS 230
The Respiratory System 150
CHAPTER 28 UNIT VII
The Cardiovascular System 160 ACUTE CARE
CHAPTER 29 CHAPTER 41
The Nervous System 169 Caring for Surgical Patients 233
CHAPTER 30 CHAPTER 42
The Sensory System 174 Caring for Mothers and Newborns 239
CHAPTER 31 CHAPTER 43
The Endocrine System 180 Caring for Pediatric Patients 244