Description
Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market!- Comprehensive coverage includes more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills and procedures.- Rationales for each step within skills explain the "why" as well as the "how" of each skill and include citations from the current literature.- Clinical Judgments alert you to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help you modify care as needed to meet individual patient needs.- UNIQUE! Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions sections highlight what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.- Clinical Review Questions at the end of each chapter provides case-based review questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making.- More than 1,200 full-color photos and drawings help you visualize concepts and procedures.- Nursing process format provides a consistent presentation that helps you apply the process while learning each skill.- NEW! All-new Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice chapter incorporates concepts of the NCSBN clinical judgment model.- Updated evidence-based literature is incorporated throughout the skills.- NEW! End-of-chapter questions and end-of-unit unfolding case studies provide optimal preparation for the Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN).
Table of Contents
UNIT 1 Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System1 Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice2 Communication and Collaboration3 Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge4 Documentation and InformaticsUNIT 2 Vital Signs and Physical Assessment5 Vital Signs6 Health AssessmentUNIT 3 Special Procedures7 Specimen Collection8 Diagnostic ProceduresUNIT 4 Infection Control9 Medical Asepsis10 Sterile TechniqueUNIT 5 Activity and Mobility11 Safe Patient Handling and Mobility12 Exercise, Mobility, and Immobilization Devices13 Support Surfaces and Special BedsUNIT 6 Safety and Comfort14 Patient Safety15 Disaster Preparedness16 Pain Management17 End-of-Life CareUNIT 7 Hygiene18 Personal Hygiene and Bed Making19 Care of the Eye and EarUNIT 8 Medications20 Safe Medication Preparation21 Nonparenteral Medications22 Parenteral MedicationsUNIT 9 Oxygenation23 Oxygen Therapy24 Airway Management25 Cardiac Care26 Closed Chest Drainage Systems27 Emergency Measures for Life SupportUNIT 10 Fluid Balance28 Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy29 Blood TherapyUNIT 11 Nutrition30 Oral Nutrition31 Enteral Nutrition32 Parenteral NutritionUNIT 12 Elimination33 Urinary Elimination34 Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation35 Ostomy CareUNIT 13 Care of the Surgical Patient36 Preoperative and Postoperative Care37 Intraoperative CareUNIT 14 Dressings and Wound Care38 Wound Care and Irrigation39 Pressure Injury Prevention and Care40 Dressings, Bandages, and BindersUNIT 15 Home Care41 Home Care Safety42 Home Care TeachingAppendix A: Terminology/Combining Forms: Prefixes and SuffixesAnswers to Clinical Judgment and Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination–Style QuestionsAnswers to Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN)–Style Unfolding Case StudiesIndex
