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 resident's rights are emphasized. This book contains updated information on HIPAA and CDC guidelines for infection control. Organized around body systems, 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.

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