cover image - Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection - Next Generation, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443268380
Copyright: 2021
Publication Date: 07-01-2024
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $159.00

Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection - Next Generation, 1st Edition

by Elsevier Inc

Clinical Skills Online

cover image - Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection - Next Generation, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443268380
Copyright: 2021
Publication Date: 07-01-2024
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $159.00
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Standardize the way you teach and evaluate skill performance across your entire nursing curriculum! Clinical Skills from Elsevier is a skills education series designed to help students of all learning styles truly master important nursing skills outside of the clinical environment. Whether used in the classroom or at home, each collection in the Clinical Skills series offers a consistent, 360-degree look at a variety of nursing skills to ensure your students have a solid understanding of all the important nursing skills and how to perform them safely and effectively.

Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection covers more than 165 of the most important nursing skills within fundamentals and health assessment. Each skill in this collection features a consistent, seven-part framework to guide students through all aspects of the skill. From high-definition videos that demonstrate each step of the skill to an interactive supply list that visually familiarizes students with related equipment, your students will walk away with a firm understanding of how to properly perform each skill before they ever step foot in the clinical environment. Best of all, this remarkable training product includes competency checklists and interactive quizzes for each skill to help you easily keep tabs on your students’ progress.

    • Convenient web-based program uses the same professional format that practicing nurses use to train.
    • Consistent, competency-based format for learning skills gives your nursing program a standardized way to teach, perform, and evaluate skills across the curriculum. Most skills feature the same types of skill learning tools to help students obtain a more holistic understanding of the skill and the standard QSEN nursing competencies.
      • Quick sheet provides a concise, step-by-step summary of the skill.
      • Extended text gives students a 360-degree look at all aspects of the skill. Subjects addressed in the extended text section include:
        • Safety alerts
        • Supplies
        • Patient and family education
        • Procedures
        • Delegation opportunities
        • Monitoring and care
        • Expected and unexpected outcomes
        • Documentation guidelines
        • Special gerontologic, pediatric, and home care considerations
        • Evidence-based references
        • Additional reading suggestions
    • Interactive visual supply list features roll-over labeling to familiarize students with each piece of equipment needed to perform the skill.
    • Demonstration videos and animations visually guide students through every necessary step involved in the skill.
    • Images and illustrations highlight crucial procedures, equipment, and documents involved in the skill.
    • Review questions and competency tests with rationales help students review and evaluate their understanding of the skill.
    • Printable evaluation checklists enable students and faculty to measure and track various skill competencies.
    • Up-to-date, evidence-based content is reviewed and revised annually by clinical skills experts to reflect changes in practice as they arise.
  • CLINICAL SKILLS: ESSENTIALS COLLECTION
    Active Listening: Connecting with Others
    Adding Items to a Sterile Field
    Administering a Cleansing Enema
    Administering Ear Medications
    Administering Eye Medications
    Administering Intradermal Injections
    Administering Intramuscular Injections
    Administering IV Medications by Mini-Infusion Pump
    Administering IV Medications by Piggyback
    Administering Medications by Intravenous Bolus
    Administering Nebulized Medications
    Administering Oral Medications
    Administering Parenteral Nutrition Through a Central Line (CPN)
    Administering PPN with Lipid Infusion
    Administering Subcutaneous Injections
    Applying External Male Catheters
    Applying a Nasal Cannula or Face Mask
    Applying an Estrogen Patch and Nitroglycerin Ointment
    Applying Compression Stockings
    Applying Restraints
    Applying Topical Medications
    Assessing Apical Pulse
    Assessing Apical-Radial Pulse
    Assessing Pain
    Assessing Radial Pulse
    Assessing Respiration: Rate, Rhythm, and Effort
    Assessing the Abdomen
    Assessing the Breasts and Axillae
    Assessing the Ears
    Assessing the Eyes
    Assessing the Female Genitalia and Rectum
    Assessing the Head, Neck and Lymphatics
    Assessing the Heart and Neck Vessels
    Assessing the Male Genitourinary, Rectum, and Prostate
    Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
    Assessing the Neurologic System: Mental Status and Cranial Nerves
    Assessing the Neurologic System: Motor and Sensory Functions
    Assessing the Nose, Mouth and Throat
    Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System
    Assessing the Skin, Hair and Nails
    Assessing the Thorax and Lungs
    Assessing Wounds
    Assessment for Postpartum Depression
    Assisting with a Bedpan
    Assisting with a Gown Change
    Assisting with a Tub Bath or Shower
    Assisting with a Urinal
    Assisting with Ambulation Using a Gait Belt
    Assisting with Cast Application
    Assisting with Meals
    Assisting with Moving a Patient in Bed
    Assisting with Positioning a Patient in Bed
    Assisting with the Use of Canes, Walkers, and Crutches
    Care of a Patient with an Immobilization Device
    Care of the Patient During Cast Removal
    Caring for a Suprapubic Catheter
    Caring for Pressure Injuries
    Change of Shift: Hand-Off
    Changing a Dressing
    Changing Intravenous Dressings
    Changing Intravenous Tubing and Fluids
    Cleaning Dentures
    Collecting a Midstream Urine Specimen
    Collecting a Specimen for Wound Culture
    Collecting a Sputum Specimen
    Communicating Effectively on the Job
    Dealing with Conflict
    Discontinuing Intravenous Therapy
    Disposable Bed Bath
    Documenting Medication Administration
    Drawing Blood and Administering Fluid
    Drawing Up More than One Type of Insulin
    Dressing the Infusion Site
    Empathy: The Foundation of Caring
    Enhancing Your Promotability
    Ensuring Oxygen Safety
    Ensuring the Six Rights of Medication Administration
    Establishing and Maintaining a Sterile Field
    Fecal Occult Blood Testing
    Handling Medication Variations
    Head-to-Toe Assessment
    Health Assessment Considerations for the Gender-Diverse Patient
    Initiating a Transfusion
    Inserting a Nasogastric Tube
    Inserting Rectal Medication
    Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Female Patient
    Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Male Patient
    Interview Skills
    Obtaining Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Readings from a Patient with an External Ventricular Drain (EVD)
    Irrigating a Urinary Catheter
    Irrigating Wounds
    Maintaining an Airway
    Making a Surgical Bed
    Making an Occupied Bed
    Making an Unoccupied Bed
    Managing a Nasogastric Tube
    Managing Pain
    Measuring Height and Weight
    Measuring Intake and Output
    Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Pulse Oximetry
    Midline Catheter: Maintenance and Dressing Change
    Midline Catheter: Removal
    Monitoring for Adverse Reactions to a Transfusion
    Nursing Process: Assessment
    Nursing Process: Diagnosis
    Nursing Process: Evaluation
    Nursing Process: Implementation
    Nursing Process: Planning
    Obtaining a Specimen from an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
    Obtaining Blood Pressure by the One-Step Method
    Obtaining Blood Pressure by the Two-Step Method
    Performing a Complete or Partial Bed Bath
    Performing Back Massage
    Performing Blood Glucose Testing
    Performing Dressing Care for a Central Venous Access Device (CVAD)
    Performing Gastric Occult Blood Testing
    Performing Hair Care and Shampooing in Bed
    Performing Hand Hygiene
    Performing Intermittent Straight Catheterization
    Performing Nail and Foot Care
    Performing Nasotracheal and Nasopharyngeal Suctioning
    Performing Oral Hygiene for an Unconscious Patient
    Performing Oropharyngeal Suctioning
    Performing Perineal Care for a Female Patient
    Performing Perineal Care for a Male Patient
    Performing Range-of-Motion Exercises
    Performing Sterile Gloving
    Performing Venipuncture
    Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter: Removal
    Pouching a Colostomy
    Pouching a Urostomy
    Pouring a Sterile Solution
    Preoperative Assessment
    Preparing a Patient for Surgery
    Preparing an Infusion Site
    Preparing and Administering Insulin
    Preparing for a Transfusion
    Preparing Injections from a Vial
    Preparing Injections from an Ampule
    Presenting Yourself to the Workplace
    Preventing Medication Errors
    Promoting Family Support and Participation
    Providing Catheter Care
    Providing Enteral Feedings
    Providing Postoperative Care
    Providing Tracheostomy Care
    Regulating an Intravenous Infusion
    Removing a Feeding Tube
    Removing an Indwelling (Foley) Urinary Catheter
    Safe Handling of Hazardous Medications
    Screening Urine for Chemical Properties
    Setting Oxygen Flow Rates
    Shaving a Male Patient
    Solving Problems and Making Decisions
    Taking Aspiration Precautions
    Taking Temperatures
    Teaching Patient Self-Examination
    Teaching Postoperative Exercises
    Transferring from a Bed to a Stretcher
    Transferring from a Bed to a Wheelchair Using a Transfer Belt
    Troubleshooting Intravenous Infusions
    Troubleshooting Vascular Access Devices
    Using a Dry Powder Inhaler
    Using a Hydraulic Lift
    Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler
    Using a Prepackaged Sterile Kit
    Using a Sequential Compression Device
    Using an Infusion Pump
    Using Automated Medication Dispensing Systems

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