Includes index.

Unit 1: Introduction to Health Care: The Health Care System -- The Nursing Assistant -- Professionalism and Job-Seeking Skills -- Legal and Ethical Issues -- Communication Skills -- Those We Care For -- Unit 2: Long-Term Care: Overview of Long-Term Care -- The Long-Term Care Resident -- Caring for People With Dementia -- Unit 3: Infection Control: Communicable Disease -- Common Communicable Diseases and Transmission in the Health Care Setting -- Infection Control Measures -- Unit 4: Safety: Workplace Safety -- Patient Safety and Restraint Alternatives -- Positioning, Lifting, and Transferring Patients and Residents -- Basic First Aid and Emergency Care -- Unit 5: Basic Patient and Resident Care: The Patient or Resident Environment -- Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges – Bedmaking -- Vital Signs, Height, and Weight -- Comfort and Rest -- Cleanliness and Hygiene – Grooming -- Basic Nutrition -- Assisting With Urinary and Bowel Elimination -- Unit 6: Death and Dying: Caring for People Who Are Terminally Ill -- Caring for People Who Are Dying -- Unit 7: Body Systems: Normal Function and the Effects of Aging and Disease: -- Basic Body Structure and Function -- The Integumentary System -- The Musculoskeletal System -- The Respiratory System -- The Cardiovascular System -- The Nervous System -- The Sensory System -- The Endocrine System -- The Digestive System -- The Urinary System -- The Reproductive System -- Unit 8: Special Care Concerns: Caring for People With Rehabilitation Needs -- Caring for People With Developmental Disabilities -- Caring for People With Mental Illness -- Caring for People With Cancer -- Unit 9: Acute Care: Caring for Surgical Patients -- Caring for Birthing Parents and Newborns -- Caring for Pediatric Patients -- Unit 10: Home Health Care: Introduction to Home Health Care -- Safety and Infection Control in the Home Health Care Setting.