What is our primary mission as CNA educators?

Tomorrow's healthcare teams require resilient nursing assistant staff with strong communication and critical thinking skills. Nursing Assistant educators must balance technical competency with humanistic care training, teaching students to recognize the person within the patient, resident, or client.

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Experience the difference with Lippincott CNA resources: From core skills to empathy

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Comprehensive perspective
Pam Carter's textbook comprehensively addresses essential CNA practice areas with a conversational tone, patient scenarios, and skill-building.
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Accessible learning
Lippincott® CoursePoint Digital Resources offer e-text functionality enabling text to be heard in various dialects, easing barriers for ESL or ELL learners.
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Patient-centered focus
With the right depth and exposure to clinical judgment skills, prepare students for real-world practice and better guide them to see the person, not just the patient.
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Ensure workforce readiness
Ensure students are workforce-ready by exposing them to the evidence-based learning platforms they’ll use in practice.
How is our CNA suite empathetic and patient-centered?

Watch Pamela Carter, RN,BSN, MEd, CNOR, speak about the core pedagogical principles in CNA education, and humanistic care.

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Content choices for how you teach

Lippincott Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition

Lippincott® Textbook for Nursing Assistants A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition

Author Pamela Carter's conversational, yet professional writing style clarifies complex material to make information more accessible. Focuses on a human-centered perspective while guiding students through the clinical decision-making perspective.

UPDATED! Streamlined content: We've revised our content to incorporate the latest clinical practices, discoveries, and advances, ensuring your students stay focused on the need-to-know concepts and skills.

NEW! Respect features: At the end of each unit, these features foster awareness of diverse backgrounds and cultures, helping students build inclusive relationships with patients, residents, and clients.

NEW! Updated nutrition and dietary recommendations: Reflecting the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, these updates include new art and descriptions of MyPlate, keeping your students informed on the most current dietary guidelines.

Key Features

  • Helping hands and a caring heart focuses on humanistic healthcare, strengthening students' empathy and helping them meet the emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of patients and residents.
  • Step-by-step procedures guide students through 79 common nursing assistant tasks, emphasizing privacy, safety, infection control, and comfort.
  • Guideline boxes emphasize “What You Do” and “Why You Do It” to reinforce understanding of key tasks.

Enhanced learning tools

  • Tell the Nurse! notes: Alerts for observations that should be reported
  • Stop and Think! scenarios: Practice solving complex, real-world nursing situations.
  • Concerns for long-term care: Specific considerations for effective care in long-term settings
  • Taking it to the next level: Advanced Skills callouts identify opportunities for further training and career advancement.
Lippincott® Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Holistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition

Lippincott® Essentials for Nursing Assistants: A Holistic Approach to Caregiving, 6th Edition

Ideal for use in shorter, fast-paced programs, each chapter focuses on only the most essential concepts, breaking down information for easier retention. 

Empathetic, humanistic care

  • Nurse Pam tips: Practical advice on empathizing with patients and promoting passionate care

Enhanced learning and critical thinking

  • Stop and Think! scenarios: Engage in critical thinking and solve complex workplace problems.
  • Procedure boxes: Step-by-step guides for 74 common procedures, updated with the latest clinical practices and infection control standards
  • Taking it to the next level: Advanced skills are highlighted with corresponding information found in Lippincott® Acute Care Skills for Advanced Nursing Assistants.
  • Tell the Nurse! notes: Key signs and symptoms to report to a nurse
  • Concerns for long-term care: Essential information for caring for senior residents

Comprehensive and inclusive content

  • Updated and expanded content: Stay current with the latest practices in nutrition, expanded infection control procedures, and more.
  • New chapters: Mental Health and Admissions, transfers, and discharges
  • Inclusive and updated art and language to meet current diversity, equity, and inclusion recommendations

Engaging and retentive learning tools

  • Guideline (“What You Do”/”Why You Do It”) boxes reinforce retention and understanding.
  • Companion workbook includes multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, Think About It and matching questions, crossword puzzles, word jumbles, labeling, sequencing, and identification activities.

Transform your CNA program — Lippincott® CoursePoint

With easy-to-follow text and innovative digital resources, our Lippincott CNA suite of learning products is designed to simplify the learning experience for both students and educators. Lippincott® CoursePoint is an interactive experience geared to help students understand, retain, and apply their course knowledge and be prepared for practice.

  • Interactive, audible eBook allows students to access the title anytime and anywhere, take notes, and highlight text – with a read-aloud feature where students can listen and follow along. Available in different language accents, or dialects to assist English as a second language learners
  • Digital workbook downloadable and printable, provides additional value for students.
  • Over 100 Watch and Learn Skills videos reinforce key concepts and procedures.
  • Stedman’s® Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing features more than 56,000 medical terms with pronunciations and access to thousands of images to illustrate key medical terms and concepts.
  • Pre-lecture quizzes prepare students for class.
  • Unmatched support with our Implementation Team consists of dedicated Digital Implementation Specialists and Nursing Education Consultants who provide product training to faculty and students to implement Lippincott CoursePoint with ease.

Resources and insights for your Certified Nursing Assistant program

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Equip your students with essential critical thinking and clinical judgment skills to deliver compassionate care across healthcare settings using our top-notch CNA products in print and digital formats.
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How one CNA program achieved near-perfect pass rates
Amid challenges posed by a diverse student body and COVID-19, Southwestern College embraced digital learning through Lippincott® CoursePoint. The CNA pass rate surged to nearly 100%, exceeding California's 87% average.
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