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• A clear writing style at a 7th-grade reading level ensures accessibility for low-level learners.

• Over 100 skills outlined in the pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections ensure you learn all the necessary steps to pass the skills portion of the certification exam.

• Complete coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to pass the state certification exam and engage in safe practice.

• Focus on Practice: Problem Solving provides scenarios that stimulate critical thinking about common situations encountered during practice.

• Focus on Math feature reviews mathematical calculations needed in various care measures and procedures.

• Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant’s role during state inspections.

• Getting a Job chapter covers the soft skills needed to seek and obtain employment.

• Focus on PRIDE: The Person, Family, and Yourself boxes build on chapter concepts to help promote pride in the nursing assistant, the resident, and the resident’s family.

• Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the importance of the patient’s or resident’s safety and comfort.

• Delegation Guidelines detail the specifics of accepting delegated tasks.

• Focus on Children and Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.

• Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in the long-term and home care settings.

• Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable.

• Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help you learn about the various practices of other cultures.

• Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help nursing assistants work most efficiently whether independently or as part of the nursing team.

• Chapter review questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter.