Project Description
CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification
By: Carrie Jarosinski, RN, CNE, CWP
© 2017 August Learning Solutions
Print ISBN: 978-1-941626-30-6 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-941626-50-4
Print: $93.75
eBook: $74.99
Master the problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills needed to succeed as a nursing assistant with CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification. This comprehensive guide is written in easy-to-understand language and focuses on the importance of safety, professionalism, effective communication, legal and ethical issues, and real-world situations you’ll encounter on the job. This textbook offers content on emerging healthcare trends, bariatric considerations, end-of-life care, and much more.
Learn from author and registered nurse Carrie L. Jarosinski what it takes to be a nursing assistant and achieve caregiver excellence.
- Role and Scope of Practice includes the skills, responsibilities, and actions permitted and expected of a nursing assistant.
- Skills are divided into when, why, and what statements, followed by “starting up” and “finishing up” steps to prepare you for your role as a nursing assistant.
- Get Up and Think! encourages you to solve real-world situations that you’ll encounter on the job.
- Learning Objectives help you review key concepts, guide your study, and prepare you for your state certification exam.
- Personas are applied to learning objectives throughout each chapter to assist with critical thinking of real-world nursing assistant scenarios.
- Lessons apply to long-term, acute, and subacute care settings.
- Workbook corresponds with each chapter and supports learning with a range of exercises. Sold separately.
- Skills Videos provide a unique classroom experience and reiterate the roles and responsibilities of a nursing assistant.
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Meet the Author

Dr. Carrie L. Jarosinski RN, CNE, CWP
Author of:
- CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification
- CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification, Accelerated Edition
- CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification, California Edition
- Workbook to accompany CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification, Accelerated Edition
- Workbook to accompany CNA: Nursing Assistant Certification
Carrie L. Jarosinski is a registered nurse, certified nurse educator, thought leader, and author. She began her career as a nursing assistant and then as a registered nurse in long-term care. She then moved on to work in public health, focusing on children with special healthcare needs, childhood lead poisoning prevention, and prenatal health. In 2006, Carrie started her teaching career as adjunct faculty in the Nursing and Nursing Assistant Programs at Mid-State Technical College (MSTC). In 2007, she became the Lead Nursing Assistant Instructor and Program Director at MSTC and is now the lead faculty in the Health and Wellness Promotion Program. In 2015, Carrie authored Essentials of Certified Nursing Assisting textbook and workbook. She also completed a Doctorate of Nursing Practice in Systems Leadership with a focus on rural food desert conditions from Walden University.