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This comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures can be used across the nursing curriculum. It also serves as a good procedure manual for hospitals and medical clinics.
The most complete, up-to-date, and useful guide to performing current, evidence-based, clinical nursing skills
Current with both the National Council Test Plan for RN and the NCLEX®, Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills teaches more than 550 nursing skills, from basic to complex. For each skill, students learn how to assess clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, perform procedures according to safe and accepted protocols, evaluate outcomes, and document pertinent data. Organized around the nursing process, the text helps readers understand the overall theory and rationales for each skill and technique. Coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community-based nursing is provided throughout. Extensive case studies, critical-thinking features, NCLEX-style review questions, and new QSEN activities give students practice applying their knowledge and clinical reasoning. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, Clinical Nursing Skills is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies.
List of contents
- Professional Nursing
- Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process
- Managing Client Care: Documentation and Delegation
- Communication and Nurse-Client Relationship
- Admission, Transfer, and Discharge
- Client Education and Discharge Planning
- Safe Client Environments and Restraints
- Bathing, Bedmaking, and Maintaining Skin Integrity
- Personal Hygiene
- Vital Signs
- Physical Assessment
- Body Mechanics and Positioning
- Exercise and Ambulation
- Infection Control
- Disaster Preparedness
- Pain Management
- Alternative Therapies and Stress Management
- Medication Administration
- Nutritional Management and Enteral Intubation
- Specimen Collection
- Diagnostic Procedures
- Urinary Elimination
- Bowel Elimination
- Heat and Cold Therapies
- Wound Care and Dressings
- Perioperative Care
- Orthopedic Interventions
- Intravenous Therapy
- Central Vascular Access Devices
- Respiratory Care
- Circulatory Maintenance
- Neurologic Management
- Advanced nursing Skills
- End-of-Life Care
Summary
This comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures can be used across the nursing curriculum. It also serves as a good procedure manual for hospitals and medical clinics.
The most complete, up-to-date, and useful guide to performing current, evidence-based, clinical nursing skills
Current with both the National Council Test Plan for RN and the NCLEX®, Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills teaches more than 550 nursing skills, from basic to complex. For each skill, students learn how to assess clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, perform procedures according to safe and accepted protocols, evaluate outcomes, and document pertinent data. Organized around the nursing process, the text helps readers understand the overall theory and rationales for each skill and technique. Coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community-based nursing is provided throughout. Extensive case studies, critical-thinking features, NCLEX-style review questions, and new QSEN activities give students practice applying their knowledge and clinical reasoning. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, Clinical Nursing Skills is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies.
