Product Description
This highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.
The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002; offers compelling new data on a wide array of topics ranging from websites, departmental area trends, and diet data, to risk management, major organizations in the field, drug lists, and information on diseases and disability. New sections on:
- Distinguishing delirium from dementia
- Psychosis from agitation
- GERD
- Glycemic control
- Hand washing data
