Barbara Acello
Personal Information
Description
Barbara Acello, MS, RN, is an independent nurse consultant and educator in Denton, Texas. She is a member of the Texas Nurses™ Association, NANDA International, and the American College of Healthcare Administrators, where she was honored with the Educator of the Year Award for 2007 and the Journalism Award for 2009. Acello has worked as a director of nursing, administrator, and long-term care facility consultant and educator; she has held numerous corporate-level positions in eight states. Presently, she is involved with freelance consulting, lecturing, and writing. She has written many textbooks, journal articles, and other materials related to acute and long-term care nursing, as well as nursing assistant practice and education. Although she has worked in acute care, emergency room, and EMS, long-term care is her preferred practice setting. She is committed to improving working conditions, education, and professionalism for nurses and nursing assistants in long-term care facilities.
Books
Nutrition Assistant Essentials
The book was developed in response to the Federal Rule allowing long term care facilities to use paid nutrition assistants to supplement the feeding services of CNA's. The content covers all federal requirements including resident's rights, communication and personal skills, infection control, good nutrition and observation and reporting.
Infection Control Update, 1996
In 1996, the CDC revised their list of Universal Precautions in health care, which impacted existing American nursing assistant textbooks. This 36-page color booklet described how the changes in infection control evolved and affected medical practices. It was printed slightly smaller than average size so it could be inserted into a textbook, and was cited as an updated companion to 7 popular Delmar titles. Because it took so long for the CDC's changes to be cited in commonly-used textbooks and the internet was still relatively primitive, the booklet fetched high prices for many years after it went out of print. A fairly early published work of prolific nursing author Barbara Acello, she made it a family affair. She herself, husband Francis and son Jon took photographs at Kern Manor in Pilot Point, Texas (where all of her immediate family had worked at different times in various capacities), and the models included daughter Laura and Jon's husband, Dennis Clarkson, who were both CNA's. The negatives from this shoot were turned over to the publishers, and since they included the models practicing then-new CDC standards, Delmar went on to reuse the pics in countless medical publications.
Nursing Procedure Guide for Long-Term Care
A comprehensive, alphabetical, no-frills instructional guide for common procedures employed in long-term care nursing facilities.