Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition

• Coverage of 159 skills and interventions addresses basic, intermediate, and advanced skills you'll use every day in practice.
• UNIQUE! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chapter provides the information needed to use evidence-based practice to solve clinical problems.
• Safe Patient Care Alerts highlight unusual risks in performing skills, so you can plan ahead at each step of nursing care.
• Delegation & Collaboration guidelines help you make decisions in whether to delegate a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel, and indicates what key information must be shared.
• Special Considerations indicate additional risks or accommodations you may face when caring for pediatric or geriatric patients, and patients in home care settings.
• Documentation guidelines include samples of nurses’ notes showing what should be reported and recorded after performing skills.
• A consistent format for nursing skills makes it easier to perform skills, always including Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
• A Glove icon identifies procedures in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed in order to minimize the risk of infection.
• Media resources include skills performance checklists on the Evolve companion website and related lessons, videos, and interactive exercises on Nursing Skills Online.

• NEW coverage of evidence-based techniques to improve patient safety and outcomes includes the concept of care bundles, structured practices that have been proven to improve the quality of care, and teach-back, a new step that shows how you can evaluate your success in patient teaching.
• NEW! Coverage of HCAHPS (Hospital Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective) introduces a concept now widely used to evaluate hospitals across the country. 
• NEW! Teach-Back step shows how to evaluate the success of patient teaching, so you can be sure that the patient has mastered a task or consider trying additional teaching methods. 
• NEW! Updated 2012 Infusion Nurses Society standards are incorporated for administering IVs, as well as other changes in evidence-based practice.
• NEW topics include communication with cognitively impaired patients, discharge planning and transitional care, and compassion fatigue for professional and family caregivers.

Unit I: Quality and Safety in Nursing Practice
Chapter 1: Using Evidence in Nursing Practice
• Steps of Evidence-Based Practice
• Evidence in Nursing Skills
Chapter 2: Communication & Collaboration
• Skill 2.1 Establishing the Nurse-Patient Relationship and Interviewing
• Skill 2.2 Communicating with Patients Who Have Difficulty Coping
• Skill 2.3 Communications with Cognitively Impaired Patients
• Procedural Guideline 2.1 Hand-Off Communications
• Procedural Guideline 2.2 S-BAR Communication
• Skill 2.4 Discharge Planning and Transitional Care  NEW!
Chapter 3: Documentation and Informatics
• Procedure Guideline 3.1 Documenting Nurses’ Progress Notes
• Procedural Guideline 3.2 Using an Electronic Medical Record
• Procedural Guideline 3.3 Documenting an Incident Occurrence
Chapter 4: Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
• Skill 4.1 Fall Prevention in a Health Care Setting
• Skill 4.2 Designing a Restraint Free Environment
• Skill 4.3 Applying Physical Restraints
• Skill 4.4 Seizure Precautions
• Skill 4.5 Fire, Electrical, and Radiation Safety
Chapter 5: Infection Control
• Skill 5.1 Hand Hygiene
• Skill 5.2 Applying Personal Protective Equipment
• Skill 5.3 Caring for Patients under Isolation Precautions
• Skill 5.4 Preparing a Sterile Field
• Skill 5.6 Applying Sterile Gloves
Unit II: Patient Assessment Skills
Chapter 6: Vital Signs
• Skill 6.1 Measuring Body Temperature
• Skill 6.2 Assessing Pulse: Apical
• Skill 6.3 Assessing Pulse: Radial
• Procedural Guideline 6.1 Assessing Pulse: Apical Radial
• Skill 6.4 Assessing Respirations
• Skill 6.5 Assessing Blood Pressure
• Procedural Guideline 6.2 Assessing Blood Pressure Electronically
Chapter 7: Health Assessment
• Skill 7.1 General Survey
• Procedural Guideline 7.1 Monitoring Intake and Output
• Skill 7.2 Assessing the Head and Neck
• Skill 7.3 Assessing the Thorax and Lungs
• Skill 7.4 Cardiovascular Assessment
• Skill 7.5 Assessing the Abdomen
• Skill 7.6 Assessing the Genitalia and Rectum
• Skill 7.7 Musculoskeletal and Neurological Assessment
Chapter 8: Specimen Collection
• Skill 8.1 Urine Specimen Collection
• Procedural Guideline 8.1 Collecting a Timed Urine Specimen
• Procedural Guideline 8.2 Urine Testing
• Skill 8.2 Testing for Gastrointestinal Alterations — Gastroccult Test, Stool Specimen, and Hemoccult Test
• Skill 8.3 Collecting Specimens from the Nose and Throat
• Skill 8.4 Collecting a Sputum Specimens
• Skill 8.5 Obtaining Wound Drainage Specimens
• Skill 8.6 Blood Glucose Monitoring
• Skill 8.7 Performing Venipuncture 
Chapter 9: Diagnostic Procedures
• Skill 9.1 Contrast Media Studies: Ateriogram (Angiogram), Cardiac Catheterization, Intravenous Pyelogram
• Skill 9.2 Care of Patients Undergoing Aspirations — Bone Marrow, Lumbar Puncture, Paracentesis, and Thoracentesis
• Skill 9.3 Care of Patients Undergoing Bronchoscopy
• Skill 9.4 Care of Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• Skill 9.5 Obtaining an Electrocardiogram
Unit 3: Basic Human Needs
Chapter 10: Bathing and Personal Hygiene
• Skill 10.1 Complete Bathing
• Procedural Guideline 10.1 Perineal Care
• Procedural Guideline 10.3 Oral Care
• Procedural Guideline 10.4 Care of Dentures
• Procedural Guideline 10.5 Hair Care – Combing, Shampooing, Shaving
• Procedural Guideline 10.6 Nail & Foot Care
• Procedural Guideline 10.6 Bed Making – Occupied
• Procedural Guideline 10.7 Bed Making – Unoccupied and Surgical Bed
Chapter 11: Care of the Eye and Ear
• Skill 11.1 Eye Irrigation
• Procedural Guideline 11.1 Eye Care for the Comatose Patient
• Skill 11.2 Ear Irrigation
• Skill 11. 3 Caring for a Hearing Aid
Chapter 12: Promoting Nutrition
• Skill 12.1 Feeding Dependent Patients
• Skill 12.2 Aspiration Precautions
• Skill 12.3 Insertion and Removal of a Small-Bore Feeding Tube
• Skill 12.4 Verifying Placement & Irrigating a Feeding Tube
• Skill 12.5 Administering Tube Feedings for Nasogastric, Gastrostomy, and Jejunostomy Tubes
• Procedural Guideline 12.1 Site Care of Enteral Feeding Tubes
Chapter 13: Pain Management
• Skill 13.1 Nonpharmacological Pain Management
• Procedural Guideline 13.1 Relaxation and Guided Imagery
• Skill 13.2 Pharmacologic Pain Management
• Skill 13.3 Patient-Controlled Analgesia
• Skill 13.4 Epidural Analgesia
• Skill 13.5 Local Anesthetics Infusion Pump for Analgesia
• Skill 13-6 Moist and Dry Heat
• Skill 13-7 Cold Application
Chapter 14: Promoting Oxygenation
• Skill 14.1 Oxygen Administration
• Skill 14.2 Airway Management: Noninvasive Interventions
• Procedural Guideline 14.1 Use of a Peak Flow-Meter
• Skill 14.3 Chest Physiotherapy
• Skill 14.4 Airway Management: Suctioning
• Skill 14.5 Airway Management: Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Care
• Skill 14.6 Managing Closed Chest Drainage Systems
Unit 4: Activity and Mobility
Chapter 15: Safe Patient Handling
• Skill 15.1 Transfer Techniques
• Skill 15.2 Moving & Positioning Patients in Bed
• Procedural Guideline 15.1 Wheelchair Transfer Techniques
Chapter 16: Exercise & Mobility
• Procedural Guideline 16.1 Range of Motion
• Procedural Guideline 16.2 Applying Elastic Stockings and Sequential Compression Device
• Skill 16.1 Assisting with Ambulation
• Skill 16.2 Teaching Use of Canes, Crutches, Walkers
Chapter 17: Traction, Cast Care, and Immobilization Devices
• Skill 17.1 Assisting with Cast Application and Removal
• Skill 17-2 Care of the  Patient in Skin Traction
• Skill 17.3 Care of the Patient in Skeletal Traction and Pin Site Care
• Skill 17.3 Care of the Patient with an Immobilization Device
Unit 5:  Promoting Elimination
Chapter 18: Urinary Elimination
• Procedural Guideline 18.1 Assisting with Use of a Urinal
• Skill 18.1 Applying a Condom Catheter
• Procedural Guideline 18.2 Bladder Scan
• Skill 18.2 Insertion of a Straight or Indwelling Catheter
• Skill 18.3 Removal of Indwelling Catheter
• Procedural Guideline 18.3 Care of Indwelling Catheter
• Skill 18.4 Suprapubic Catheterization
• Skill 18.5 Performing Catheter Irrigation
Chapter 19: Bowel Elimination
• Procedural Guideline 19.1 Providing a Bedpan
• Skill 19.1 Removing Fecal Im