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Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition
by Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443433702
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
1304
Imprint:
Elsevier
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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, 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 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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- Updated evidence-based literature is incorporated throughout the skills
- Additional updates to be determined during the planning meeting
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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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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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