Helping future and current nursing assistants, patient care assistants, and home health aides understand and appreciate the scope of the work and duties they will be expected to master and perform, this leading text/reference covers the basics of providing care to a variety of patients as it keeps pace with recent developments and improvements in the health care field, and continues to maintain the systems approach users have come to rely on. Each copy of the text comes packaged with an Audio Glossary CD for free and is accompanied by the Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/wolgin).