cover image - Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443433818
Copyright: 2028
Page Count: 744
Imprint: Elsevier
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Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & 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

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cover image - Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443433818
Copyright: 2028
Page Count: 744
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $42.99
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    • NEW! Updated content ensures that each checklist reflects the latest accepted clinical practice
    • 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, 12th Edition textbook
    • Thorough and convenient documentation of skill mastery makes it easier for instructors to evaluate your performance of each skill and for you to do self-evaluations
    • Perforated pages make it easy to submit forms to instructors during clinical skills lab
  • 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
  • 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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