ISBN:
9780443115929
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
01-22-2024
Page Count:
1344
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Mosby
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Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 11th Edition
by Anne G. Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Patricia A. Potter, RN, PhD, FAAN, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN, AHN-BC
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443115929
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
01-22-2024
Page Count:
1344
Imprint:
Mosby
List Price:
$109.99
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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!
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- 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.
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- 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).
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UNIT 1 Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System
1 Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice
2 Communication and Collaboration
3 Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
4 Documentation and Informatics
UNIT 2 Vital Signs and Physical Assessment
5 Vital Signs
6 Health Assessment
UNIT 3 Special Procedures
7 Specimen Collection
8 Diagnostic Procedures
UNIT 4 Infection Control
9 Medical Asepsis
10 Sterile Technique
UNIT 5 Activity and Mobility
11 Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
12 Exercise, Mobility, and Immobilization Devices
13 Support Surfaces and Special Beds
UNIT 6 Safety and Comfort
14 Patient Safety
15 Disaster Preparedness
16 Pain Management
17 End-of-Life Care
UNIT 7 Hygiene
18 Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
19 Care of the Eye and Ear
UNIT 8 Medications
20 Safe Medication Preparation
21 Nonparenteral Medications
22 Parenteral Medications
UNIT 9 Oxygenation
23 Oxygen Therapy
24 Airway Management
25 Cardiac Care
26 Closed Chest Drainage Systems
27 Emergency Measures for Life Support
UNIT 10 Fluid Balance
28 Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
29 Blood Therapy
UNIT 11 Nutrition
30 Oral Nutrition
31 Enteral Nutrition
32 Parenteral Nutrition
UNIT 12 Elimination
33 Urinary Elimination
34 Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
35 Ostomy Care
UNIT 13 Care of the Surgical Patient
36 Preoperative and Postoperative Care
37 Intraoperative Care
UNIT 14 Dressings and Wound Care
38 Wound Care and Irrigation
39 Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
40 Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
UNIT 15 Home Care
41 Home Care Safety
42 Home Care Teaching
Appendix A: Terminology/Combining Forms: Prefixes and Suffixes
Answers to Clinical Judgment and Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination–Style Questions
Answers to Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN)–Style Unfolding Case Studies
Index
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