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MindTap Nursing Assistant, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Acello/Hegner, Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach, 11th Edition

Barbara Acello, Barbara Hegner

  • Copyright 2016
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MindTap Nursing Assistant, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Acello/Hegner, Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach 11th Edition by Barbara Acello/Barbara Hegner
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MindTap Nursing Assisting for Acello/Hegner, Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach, Eleventh Edition is a personalized teaching experience with relevant assignments that guide students to analyze, apply, and improve thinking, allowing you to measure skills and outcomes with ease. \n\nPersonalized teaching becomes yours through a Learning Path built with key student objectives and your syllabus in mind. Control what students see and when they see it. Relevant readings, multimedia, and activities are designed to take students up the levels of learning, from basic knowledge to analysis and application. Analytics and reports provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement and completion rates.

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Barbara Acello

Barbara Acello is an independent nurse consultant and educator in Denton, Texas. She is an active, contributing member of the Texas Nurses Association and the American College of Healthcare Administrators, where she was honored with the national Educator of the Year Award in 2007, the Journalism Award in 2009 and the Chair's Award -- the organization's highest honor -- in 2016 for her years of extraordinary service. Stretching across four decades, her nursing career includes work in hospitals, long-term care facilities and home health, with geriatrics as her preferred area of clinical practice. Presently, she is involved with freelance consulting, lecturing and writing. She has written and contributed to many textbooks, journal articles, instructor guides, computerized test banks, quick reference guides, nursing and managerial reference books, online inservices and supplemental instructional materials for health care personnel. Believing that the nursing assistant is the most important caregiver in the health care facility, Acello is committed to improving working conditions, education and professionalism for these vital professionals. She may be contacted at [email protected].

Barbara Hegner

Barbara Hegner, MS, RN, Former Professor Emeritus Nursing and Life Science at Long Beach City College in California.

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  • Contol what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Create a unique learning path of relevant readings, multimedia and activities that move students up the learning taxonomy from basic knowledge and comprehension to analysis, application and critical thinking.
  • Integrate your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, googledocs and more.
  • Use powerful analytics and reports that provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement and completion.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times- both individually and compared to the highest performers in class.
  • Help students stay organized and efficient with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
  • Automatically grade assignments and quizzes.

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1. Reality Check - short scenarios that Nursing Assistants will encounter in the field that tie to concepts discussed in each unit to real world practice.
2. Learning Objectives and Key Terms.
3. Reading (eBook content) broken out into shorter chunks of content to make topics more manageable for students to learn.
4. Quick Check Assignments-throughout the readings, 2-5 questions (fill in the blank, multiple choice, matching, etc.) based on the reading.
5. Study Time - Lecture slides, Flashcards, Crossword Puzzle.
6. Apply Yourself - video quizzes or written cases with quizzing tied to a scenario.
7. Test Yourself – end of chapter review questions.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305264894
  • ISBN-13: 9781305264892
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  • ISBN-10: 1133132375
  • ISBN-13: 9781133132370
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The favorite in nursing assistant education, NURSING ASSISTING: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH, 11E prepares more nursing assistants for meaningful careers in acute care, long-term care, and home health than any other book of its kind! The step-by-step format walks you through more than 150 procedures, including key skills in patient handling and transfers, wound care, communication, safety, and record keeping, as well as special care procedures for patients with medical devices, catheters, and physical or mental impairments. Easy-to understand chapters also take you through the essential background information nursing assistants need to know, such as basic human anatomy, career planning, and the latest health care trends. Updated throughout, this edition has numerous carefully chosen new full color photos and illustrations to bring the content to life. Designed to make learning fun and easy, NURSING ASSISTING: A NURSING PROCESS APPROACH, 11E is the perfect solution for nursing assisting education.