Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques
ISBN: 9780323052894 | 0323052894
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div
Pub. Date: 2/26/2009
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Written by the author team you trust, this market-leading text is known for its comprehensive coverage of over 200 nursing skills. It offers hundreds of full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and clear step-by-step instructions - with rationales for each step. Improved readability makes guidelines easier to follow, and coverage of many new skills keeps you completely current with nursing practice today. This market-leading book is written by the most respected team of authors and contributors in the profession. Comprehensive cov... MORE
| Supporting the Client through the Health Care System | |
| Using Evidence in Nursing Practice NEW! | |
| Admission, Transfer, and Discharge | |
| Communication | |
| Reporting and Recording | |
| Vital Signs and Physical Assessment | |
| Vital Signs | |
| Health History and Physical Examination | |
| Infection Control | |
| Medical Asepsis | ... MORE |
| Sterile Technique | |
| Activity and Mobility | |
| Safe Patient Handling-Transfer and Positioning | |
| Exercise and Ambulation | |
| Orthopedic Measures | |
| Support Surfaces and Special Beds | |
| Safety and Comfort | |
| Safety | |
| Disaster Preparedness | |
| Pain Assessment and Basic Comfort Measures | |
| Palliative Care | |
| Hygiene | |
| Personal Hygiene and Bedmaking | |
| Pressure Ulcer Care | |
| Care of Eye and Ear Prosthesis | |
| Medications | |
| Preparing for Medicine Administration | |
| Oral and Topical Medications | |
| Parenteral Medications | |
| Oxygenation | |
| Oxygen Therapy | |
| Performing Chest Physiotherapy | |
| Airway Management | |
| Closed Chest Drainage Systems | |
| Emergency Measures for Life Support | |
| Fluid Balance | |
| Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy | |
| Blood Transfusions | |
| Nutrition | |
| Oral Nutrition | |
| Enteral Nutrition | |
| Parenteral Nutrition | |
| Elimination | |
| Urinary Elimination | |
| Bowel Elimination | |
| Ostomy Care | |
| Care of Surgical Client | |
| Preoperative and Postoperative Care | |
| Intraoperative Care | |
| Dressings and Wound Care | |
| Wound Care and Irrigations | |
| Dressings, Binders and Bandages | |
| Warm and Cold Therapy | |
| Home Care | |
| Home Care Safety | |
| Home Care Teaching | |
| Special Procedures | |
| Specimen Collection | |
| Diagnostic Procedures | |
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