Full Description
Employing an evidence-based approach, this comprehensive textbook introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five broad sections looking at:
Care and compassion and communication, including personal care and pain assessment
Essential skills, including observations, monitoring and emergency management
Organisational aspects of care, including moving and handling, and wound care
Safety and protection, including medicine management and infection control
Nutrition and fluid balance, including hydration and nutrition.
Designed to allow readers to develop and enhance their clinical skills with one key textbook, each chapter contains learning outcomes, recommendations for practice, case studies, activities, 'clinical significance' highlights and step-by-step guides to important procedures.
This invaluable clinical skills textbook is an essential reference for pre-registration nursing students of all fields of nursing.
Contents
1. Professional Role of the Nurse
Part 1: Care and Compassion and Communication
2. Communication
3. Personal care
4. Elimination
5. Pain Assessment and Management
6. End of Life Care
Part 2: Essential skills
7. Observations and Monitoring (vital signs)
8. Monitoring and Interpreting
9. Oxygenation
10. Emergency Management of the Patient and Resuscitation
Part 3: Organisational aspects of care
11. Moving and Handling
12. Wound Care
13. Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care
14. Tracheostomy Care
Part 4: Safety and Protection
15. Infection Control
16. Safe and Accurate Administration of Medicines
Part 5: Nutrition and Fluid balance
17. Nutrition
18. Hydration and Fluid Balance
