Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

The new fifth edition of this popular resource retains its comprehensive coverage, number of skills, and a two-column format with rationales for each step. This new edition emphasizes evidence-based practice and features delegation principles, new related interventions for unexpected outcomes, long-term care and home careconsiderations, and new procedural guidelines boxes that present basic skills in a streamlined format. In addition, new expanded skills include using small volume nebulizers, applying pneumanic compression devices, placing a client on a rotokinetic bed, administering continuous subcutaneous medications, and irrigating a small-bore feeding tube.

• Includes a FREE MERLIN website at www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Perry/skills/
• Spanish version of 4th edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-342-9