Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780323083836
Paperback|9780323083836
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Overview
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.
- Coverage of QSEN core competencies includes delegation and collaboration, guidelines for reporting and recording, and pediatric, geriatric, home care, and teaching considerations.
- Unique! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chaptercovers the entire process of conducting research, including collecting, evaluating, and applying evidence from published research.
- Comprehensive coverage includes 212 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills.
- Clinical Decision Points within skills address key safety issues or possible skill modifications for specific patient needs.
- Icons indicate video clips related to skills and procedures in the book and related lessons in Nursing Skills Online.
- Rationales for each skill step explain why steps are performed in a specific way, including their clinical significance and benefit, and incorporate the latest research findings.
- The five-step nursing process provides a framework for the description of skills within overall client care.
- Unique! Unexpected outcomes and related interventions alert you to what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
- Online checklists and video clips may be downloaded to mobile devices.
- NEW Patient-Centered Care sections address issues unique to people of specific cultural, ethnic, and demographic backgrounds - a QSEN core competency.
- NEW Safety Guidelines sections cover the global recommendations on the safe execution of skill sets - also a QSEN core competency.
- UPDATED Adverse Event Reporting (AER) procedural guidelinecovers the correct response to Serious Event Reporting within the healthcare facility.
- NEW! Safe Transfer to a Wheel Chair procedural guidelinefocuses on the safety aspect of this common maneuver.
- NEW! Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired Patient skill provides the understanding and protocol for dealing with patients who are unable to communicate in a typical manner.
- NEW! Assessing the Genitalia and Rectum skill includes complete information and rationales.
- NEW! Caring for Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO) and C. difficili skillcovers this growing challenge to patient welfare and to healthcare providers.
| ISBN-13 | 9780323083836 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0323083838 |
| Weight | 5.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.50 x 1.75 x 10.75 In |
| List Price | $113.00 |
| Edition | 8th Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 398 pages |
| Publisher | Mosby |
| Published On | 2013-02-14 |
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