Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 11th Edition

by Anne G. Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN

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ISBN: 9780443113994

Publication Date: 05-29-2024

Page Count: 736

Imprint: Mosby

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Convenient checklists help you track student performance of clinical nursing skills! Skills Performance Checklists makes it easy to document and assess student proficiency in each of the more than 200 skills and procedures presented in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition text. Students can follow these checklists step by step, mark the completion of each step, then tear off the perforated pages to submit their work for evaluation. It’s an excellent tool for building and assessing essential nursing skills!

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- NEW! Updated content ensures that each checklist reflects the latest accepted clinical practice
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- More than 200 skills performance checklists provide step-by-step instructions for each of the basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition textbook
- NEW! Updated content ensures that each checklist reflects the latest accepted clinical practice
- Thorough and convenient documentation of skill mastery makes it easier for instructors to evaluate student performance of each skill and for students to do self-evaluations
- Perforated pages make it easy for students to submit forms to instructors during clinical skills lab
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Contents

1. Clinical judgment in nursing practice (no checklists in this chapter)
2. Communication and collaboration
3. Admitting, transfer, and discharge (no checklists in this chapter)
4. Documentation and informatics
5. Vital signs
6. Health assessment
7. Specimen collection
8. Diagnostic procedures
9. Medical asepsis
10. Sterile technique
11. Safe patient handling and mobility
12. Exercise, mobility, and immobilization devices
13. Support surfaces and special beds
14. Patient safety
15. Disaster preparedness
16. Pain management
17. End-of-life care
18. Personal hygiene and bed making
19. Care of the eye and ear
20. Safe medication preparation (no checklists in this chapter)
21. Non-parenteral medications
22. Parenteral medications
23. Oxygen therapy
24. Airway management
25. Cardiac care
26. Closed chest drainage systems
27. Emergency measures for life support
28. Intravenous and vascular access therapy
29. Blood therapy
30. Oral nutrition
31. Enteral nutrition
32. Parenteral nutrition
33. Urinary elimination
34. Bowel elimination and gastric intubation
35. Ostomy care
36. Preoperative and postoperative care
37. Intraoperative care
38. Wound care and irrigation
39. Pressure injury prevention and care
40. Dressings, bandages, and binders
41. Home care safety
42. Home care teaching
Authors

Anne G. Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA, Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Formerly, Director of Research, Patient Care Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE, Contributing Faculty, Masters of Science in Nursing, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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