Clinical nursing skills : basic to advanced skills
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson Prentice Hall,
2008.
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Professional nursing - Nursing process and critical thinking
- Managing client care: documentation and delegation
- Communication and nurse-client relationship
- Administation, transfer, and discharge
- Client education and discharge planning
- Safe client environment and restraints
- Bathing, bedmaking, and maintaining skin integrity
- Personal hygiene
- Vital signs
- Physical assessment
- Body mechanics and positioning
- Exercise and ambulation
- Infection control
- Disaster preparedness; bioterrorism
- Pain management
- Alternative therapies and stress management
- Medication administration
- Nutrition management and NG intubation
- Speciment collection
- Diagnostic procedures
- Urinary elimination
- Bowel elimination
- Heat and cold therapies
- Wound care and dressings
- Respiratory care
- Circulatory maintenance
- Intravenous therapy
- Central vascular access devices
- Orthopedic intervention
- Postoperative care
- End-of-life care
- Advanced nursing skills
- Community-based nursing
- Appendix: Answers and rationales to review questions