The Long-Term Care Nursing Assistant's Guide to Advanced Restorative Skills

Practical and functional strategies for nursing assistants to advance their restorative skills

Ensure that your nursing assistants provide top-notch restorative care

This book is written specifically for RNAs or nursing assistants to help them provide quality restorative care. Author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, offers detailed nursing procedures that do not fall under therapy treatment and must be provided by your nursing staff. Whether your facility has a staff dedicated to restorative care or not this resource will serve as a much-needed source of critical information that is not taught during regular CNA inservices or educational training.

At more than 250 pages, this book includes:

- Step by step procedures and guidelines to help nursing assistants provide and document advanced restorative care
- Specific methods to prove nursing assistants are trained and qualified to provide restorative care
- Examples of holistic restorative nursing care that promotes resident independence and helps residents attain and maintain the highest level of health and well-being possible
- The most common survey citations and declines related to restorative care and how to prevent them
- A companion CD-ROM with dozens of tools such as Restorative Nursing Record, Restorative Nursing Flow Sheet, and an ADL Flow Sheet

Take a look at the Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Restorative Nursing
Chapter 2: Applying Evidence-Based Practice and Critical Thinking in Restorative Care
Chapter 3: Musculoskeletal and Nervous Systems, Part 1 General Conditioning
Chapter 4: Musculoskeletal System, Part 2 Bed Mobility
Chapter 5: Musculoskeletal System, Part 3 Transfers
Chapter 6: Wheelchair Mobility
Chapter 7: Ambulation
Chapter 8: Introduction to Pain Management in the Long-Term Care Facility
Chapter 9: Restorative Fluid Balance and Bowel and Bladder Management
Chapter 10: Pressure Ulcers and Other Skin Conditions
Chapter 11: Restorative Care in Bathing, Personal Hygiene, Dressing, and Grooming
Chapter 12: Restorative Meal Service and Dining
Chapter 13: Restorative Nursing Care of Residents with Respiratory Conditions
Chapter 14: Restorative Nursing Care of Residents with Sensory Problems
Chapter 15: Restorative Documentation