Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 8e
Book Details
Author(s)
Anne Griffin Perry RN EdD FAAN, Patricia A. Potter RN MSN PhD FAAN, Wendy Ostendorf RN MS EdD CNE
Publisher
Mosby
ISBN / ASIN
0323100384
ISBN-13
9780323100380
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Description
- Coverage of QSEN core competencies includes delegation and collaboration, guidelines for reporting and recording, and pediatric, geriatric, home care, and teaching considerations.
- Unique! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chaptercovers the entire process of conducting research, including collecting, evaluating, and applying evidence from published research.
- Comprehensive coverage includes 212 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills.
- Clinical Decision Points within skills address key safety issues or possible skill modifications for specific patient needs.
- Icons indicate video clips related to skills and procedures in the book and related lessons in Nursing Skills Online.
- Rationales for each skill step explain why steps are performed in a specific way, including their clinical significance and benefit, and incorporate the latest research findings.
- The five-step nursing process provides a framework for the description of skills within overall client care.
- Unique! Unexpected outcomes and related interventions alert you to what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
- Online checklists and video clips may be downloaded to mobile devices.
- NEW Patient-Centered Care sections address issues unique to people of specific cultural, ethnic, and demographic backgrounds - a QSEN core competency.
- NEW Safety Guidelines sections cover the global recommendations on the safe execution of skill sets - also a QSEN core competency.
- UPDATED Adverse Event Reporting (AER) procedural guidelinecovers the correct response to Serious Event Reporting within the healthcare facility.
- NEW! Safe Transfer to a Wheel Chairprocedural guidelinefocuses on the safety aspect of this common maneuver.
- NEW! Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired Patient skill provides the understanding and protocol for dealing with patients who are unable to communicate in a typical manner.
- NEW! Assessing the Genitalia and Rectumskill includes complete information and rationales.
- NEW! Caring for Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO) and C. difficili skillcovers this growing challenge to patient welfare and to healthcare providers.
