Overview

  • 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

9780323100380

ISBN-10

0323100384

List Price

$113.00

Edition

8th Edition

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

1216 pages

Publisher

Mosby

Published On

2013-03-22



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