Main description:

Comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures that cross the nursing curriculum and can be used in clinical, or the skills laboratory,. For use in hospitals and medical clinics as policy/procedure books or for reference. The most complete, up-to-date and useful guide to modern clinical nursing skills available! With more than 1,200 full-color images illustrating more than 750 new and updated skills, it is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies. The authors teach through extensive case studies and critical thinking features, and thoroughly explain the rationales for each skill and technique. Strong coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community based nursing is provided throughout. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, this text also contains hundreds of NCLEX(R)-style review questions. This edition adds a new chapter on neurological care; has integrated coverage of home care throughout; provides substantial new coverage of the 2010 national patient safety goals; and contains approximately 50 new skills.

Contents:

1. Professional Nursing 2. Nursing Process and Critical Thinking 3. Managing Client Care: Documentation and Delegation 4. Communication and Nurse-Client Relationship 5. Admission, Transfer, and Discharge 6. Client Education and Discharge Planning 7. Safe Client Environment and Restraints 8. Bathing, Bedmaking, and Maintaining Skin Integrity 9. Personal Hygiene 10. VItal Signs 11. Physical Assessment 12. Body Mechanics and Positioning 13. Exercise and Ambulation 14. Infection Control 15. Disaster Preparedness. Bioterrorism 16. Pain Management 17. Alternative Therapies and Stress Management 18. Medication Administration 19. Nutritional Management and NG Intubation 20. Specimen Collection 21. Diagnostic Procedures 22. Urinary Elimination 23. Bowel Elimination 24. Heat and Cold Therapies 25. Wound Care and Dressings 26. Perioperative Care 27. Orthopedic Interventions 28. Intravenous Therapy 29. Central Vascular Access 30. Respiratory Care 31. Circulatory Maintenance 32. Neurological Management 33. End of Life Care 34. Advanced Nursing Skills