Series Foreword
Introduction
The Nursing Assistant's Job
The Work Environment of the Nursing Assistant and Its
Development
Training the Nursing Assistant
Advocacy and Bargaining
Toward a Psychosocial Model of Practice
Models to Enhance Practice
Additional Considerations
References
Bibliography
Indexes
This up-to-date bibliography of heretofore scattered references to nursing assistants includes literature pertinent to the construction of models to improve nursing assistant practice and emphasizes the psychosocial skills that are invaluable to the nursing assistant's work. Annotated reviews center on the tasks and context of nursing assistant work and ways to improve practice through training, organizational development, advocacy, and bargaining.
GEORGE H. WEBER is Professor in the National School of Social Service at The Catholic University of America. He is co-author of Nursing Assistant's Casebook of Eldercare (Auburn House, 1987) and Social Science and Public Policy. He has also written many articles on various aspects of human behavior.
?Weber includes books, journal articles, and dissertations
published in the last 20 years and having to do with nursing
assistants in geriatric care settings, particularly nursing homes.
The 223 annotated references are organized under four broad subject
areas; these chapters are complemented by three essays concerned
with improving geriatric care and the well-being of nursing
assistants. Subject and author indexes complete the book. The only
flaw in the work is that the numbers in the indexes are page
numbers rather than the numbers of the individual citations, as one
would expect. The author of this comprehensive bibliography has a
sincere interest in changing the current status of geriatric care,
a field of work in which the main practitioners are often poorly
trained, recognized, and compensated. It was interesting to this
reviewer that no one has written anything on the increasing
practice, especially in large urban areas, of hiring refugees and
immigrants, whose proficiency in English is often very low, to work
with persons whose ability to use language may be diminished by
strokes (CV As). Nursing home directors would be well advised to
purchase this book, but its most likely audience will be graduate
students in nursing. Very highly recommended.?-Choice
"Weber includes books, journal articles, and dissertations
published in the last 20 years and having to do with nursing
assistants in geriatric care settings, particularly nursing homes.
The 223 annotated references are organized under four broad subject
areas; these chapters are complemented by three essays concerned
with improving geriatric care and the well-being of nursing
assistants. Subject and author indexes complete the book. The only
flaw in the work is that the numbers in the indexes are page
numbers rather than the numbers of the individual citations, as one
would expect. The author of this comprehensive bibliography has a
sincere interest in changing the current status of geriatric care,
a field of work in which the main practitioners are often poorly
trained, recognized, and compensated. It was interesting to this
reviewer that no one has written anything on the increasing
practice, especially in large urban areas, of hiring refugees and
immigrants, whose proficiency in English is often very low, to work
with persons whose ability to use language may be diminished by
strokes (CV As). Nursing home directors would be well advised to
purchase this book, but its most likely audience will be graduate
students in nursing. Very highly recommended."-Choice
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