This instructor's guide contains 65 lessons designed to aid teachers in presenting a course in basic nursing procedures for students studying for careers as health care assistants. Lesson plans consist of a scope, objectives, suggested supplementary teaching and learning items; references, an introduction, a lesson outline, handouts, evaluation and test items, and answers to test items. The units are organized in 16 units that cover the following topics: interpersonal relationships and the health care team; using communication and observation skills; safety; concepts of microbiology; concepts of the body as a whole; the skin and its appendages; the digestive system; the musculoskeletal system; the cardiovascular system; the respiratory system; the nervous system; the sensory system; the endocrine system; the urinary system; the reproductive system; and understanding the elderly. The guide also contains a resource section listing 43 books, newsletters, and pamphlets and 9 agencies and audiovisual resources; and a glossary containing approximately 600 terms.