This handbook is a comprehensive, up-to-date clinical resource for any nurse. It provides essential coverage of over 200 nursing procedures. Focusing on need-to-know information, this handbook is the perfect reference for any nurse from the home to the hospital. Offering full step-by-step coverage of over 200 vital nursing procedures, this manual equips nurses with the skills they need to survive and thrive in today's changing health care world.
Focusing on need-to-know information, this fully revised full-color edition equips nurses with the skills they will need to survive and thrive in today’s changing health care world. Using a straight-forward approach, organized around the nursing process, the second edition of Delmar’s Fundamental & Advanced Nursing Skills, 2E provides a great resource for any nurse from the hospital to the home.NEW TO EDITION:Accompanying video series demonstrates over 100 skills contained in the book in concise, 5 minute presentations. These video segments carefully show the step-by-step actions for users and reinforce learning.New skills on topics such as male genitalia examination, maintaining skeletal traction and skeletal traction pin care provide additional clarity on vital topics.Delegation Considerations indicate where a nurse must be careful about delegating or supervising a task with an unlicensed assistive aide. Special Considerations highlight those situations where a potentially critically situation may emerge. This helps nurses identify and head off crises.
Manual of Nursing Procedures and Practice will guide nurses in a variety of settings to provide expertise and efficient patient care. It will also be an iconic resource in coaching and mentoring the novice and practicing nurses to build their competence and confidence.
This text contains checklists for every procedure in Delmar's Fundamental & Advanced Nursing Skills. ((skills, procedures, Nursing Fundamentals, clinical, practice, medical-surgical, med-surg, techniques, checklist, checklists)
Master your nursing skills! This clinical learning tool contains the step-by-step actions for every procedure found in Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills, Third Edition by Gaylene Bouska Altman. These checklists were created to help you succeed in performing basic and complex procedures used in every day nursing practice.
This highly illustrated text comprehensively covers over 200 nursing skills. Following the five-step nursing process, it is written in a clear, concise, easy-to-follow format to help promote competence in basic and complex nursing skills. Paying careful attention to gender, culture, and age-sensitive issues, the text includes real world situations in various health care environments to provide students with the clinical experiences they may encounter in their career. This, along with the critical thinking feature, helps students fine-tune their critical thinking skills and apply skill knowledge. Client teaching, documentation, equipment, and common errors are strongly emphasized to alert students to important issues and common pitfalls.
Written by the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN), this all-in-one reference includes all of the vital information you need to succeed on the CAPA and CPAN certification exams and excel in practice. Coverage of both in-hospital and ambulatory care makes PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum, 2nd Edition the perfect text for any care setting. Plus, new chapters on bariatric care and postoperative and postdischarge nausea and vomiting and the newest guidelines in all key clinical areas keep you up to date with the latest advances and concerns in the field. Authored by ASPAN -- the ultimate authority on scope of practice, competency, and patient care in perianesthesia nursing -- for the most reliable content available. Combined perianesthesia nursing and ambulatory surgical nursing core curriculum focuses on the full scope of perianesthesia nursing regardless of the setting, making it an ideal resource for in-hospital and ambulatory practice. An entire section on life span considerations addresses basic human growth and development changes for each major age group to prepare you to treat patients of any age. Competency of Preoperative Assessment and Core Competencies of PACU Nursing provide the thorough coverage you need to prepare for and pass the CAPA and CPAN exams. A section on surgical specialties includes detailed information for each specialty area including anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, operative procedures, postanesthesia priorities, extended observation, and potential complications including anesthesia and pain management. Appendixes on certification and test-taking strategies provide outstanding tools to prepare for success on the perianesthesia certification exams. Expert editors Lois Schick and Pamela Windle share their years of experience in the field and as former Presidents of ASPAN to provide current, clinically-applicable perianesthesia patient care information. Postoperative and Postdischarge Nausea and Vomiting chapter helps you identify patients more likely to be at risk for nausea and vomiting, take preventive measures, and provide proper care. Bariatric Care covers screening, pre-procedure, and post-procedure care of patients undergoing bariatric surgery and prepares you for the special challenges and concerns associated with this patient population. Updated 2008-2010 Standards on all perianesthesia topics have been implemented throughout to ensure you have the latest content to study for both the CAPA and CPAN exams and provide the best, most cutting-edge patient care possible. Increased coverage of ambulatory care integrated into each surgical care chapter includes vital information on assessing, caring for, and educating patients of outpatient procedures before sending them home. The Care and Surgical chapters have been combined to make it easy to find the relevant care information for each surgical procedure by specialty.
Lippincott's Content Review for NCLEX-RN® provides comprehensive content and Q&A review for effective, efficient NCLEX-RN preparation. Written by Diane Billings, Ed.D, RN, FAAN, a nationally recognized test-item writer whose NCLEX preparation books have helped thousands of students pass the exam, it is a perfect companion to the best-selling Lippincott's Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN®, 10th edition and the new Lippincott’s NCLEX-RN 10,000 - Powered by PrepU online adaptive quizzing resource for a complete approach to NCLEX study. Organized both by Nursing Topic and Client Needs categories and offering in-depth coverage of nursing topics often tested on the exam, this comprehensive resource offers: · An NCLEX overview plus thorough content review in outline format · Test-taking strategies to help you better prepare for the exam · Three 100-question post-tests to help you gauge your understanding of important nursing topics · More than 3,000 high-level practice questions, including alternate-format questions, with a detailed rationale for all correct and incorrect responses. · A free back-of-book CD-ROM contains additional review questions to complement the text questions · Student resources - study tips, an NCLEX tutorial and much more are available on thePoint.com
Promoting safe and effective nursing care, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), 5th Edition standardizes the terminology and criteria needed to measure and evaluate outcomes that result from nursing interventions. Nearly 500 research-based nursing outcome labels — including 107 that are NEW to this edition — help to standardize expected patient outcomes. Specific indicators make it easier to evaluate and rate the patient in relation to outcome achievement. Written by an expert author team led by Sue Moorhead, this book is ideal for practicing nurses, students, educators, researchers, and administrators seeking to improve cost containment and patient outcomes. 490 research-based nursing outcome labels promote standardization of expected patient outcomes. Definitions, lists of indicators, publication facts lines, and references provide all of the information you need to understand outcomes. A label name, definition, set of indications, 5 point Likert measurement scale, a publication facts line, and selected references are presented for each outcomes. Linkages between NOC outcomes and 2012-2014 NANDA-I Diagnoses and Functional Health Patterns promote clinical decision-making. Core outcomes are included for specialty practice across care settings. 107 NEW outcome labels allow you to better define patient outcomes that are responsive to nursing care. NEW! Health Management class added to the NOC taxonomy includes outcomes that describe the individual’s role in the management of an acute or chronic condition.
