Clinical nursing skills & techniques
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- ISBN: 0323400698 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780323400695 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 1180 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
print - Edition: 9th edition.
- Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Unit 1. Supporting the patient through the health care system -- 1. Using evidence in nursing practice - 2. Admitting, transfer, and discharge - 3. Communitcation and collaboration - 4. Documentation and informatics -- Unit 2. Vital signs and physical assessment -- 5. Vital signs - 6. Health assessment -- Unit 3. Special procedures -- 7. Specimen collections - 8. Diagnostic procedures -- Unit 4. Infection control -- 9. Medical asepsis - 10. Sterile technique -- Unit 5. Activity and mobility -- 11. Safe patient handling, transfer, and positioning - 12. Exercise and mobility - 13. Support surfaces and special beds -- Unit 6. Safety and comfort -- 14. Patient safety - 15. Disaster preparedness - 16. Pain management - 17. Palliative 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. Performing chest physiotherapy - 25. Airway management - 26. Cardiac care - 27. Closed chest drainage systems - 28. Emergeny measures for life support -- Unit 10. Fluid balance -- 29. Intravenous and vascular access therapy - 30. Blood transfusions -- Unit 11. Nutrition -- 31. Oral nutrition - 32. Enteral nutrition - 33. Parenteral nutrition -- Unit 12. Elimination -- 34. Urinary elimination - 35. Bowel elimination - 36. Ostomy care -- Unit 13. Care of the surgical patient -- 37. Preoperative and postoperative care - 38. Intraoperative care -- Unit 14. Dressings and wound care -- 39. Pressure injury prevention and care - 40. Wound care and irrigation - 41. Dressings, bandages, and binders - 42. Therapeutic use of heat and cold -- Unit 15. Home care -- 43. Home care safety - 44. Home care teaching -- Appendixes -- A. NANDA definitions from Nursing Diagnoses: definitions and classification 2015-2017 -- B. Common prefixes and suffixes |
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