Full Description
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.
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
