ISBN:
9780443433689
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
1304
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$139.99
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 12th Edition
by Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN
Paperback
ISBN:
9780443433689
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
1304
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$139.99
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Help your students learn the clinical nursing skills they will need — and to prepare for success on the Next Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 12th 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 nurses learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts led by Patricia A. Potter, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market.
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- NEW! Updated evidence-based literature is incorporated throughout the book
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- NEW! Updated evidence-based literature is incorporated throughout the book
- 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
- More than 1,200 full-color photos and drawings help students to visualize concepts and procedures
- Clinical Judgments alert students to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help them 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
- Nursing process format helps students apply the nursing process while learning each skill
- Clinical review questions at the end of each chapter provide case-based questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making
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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 -
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