Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills
8th edition
Author(s): Sandra F. Smith, Donna J. Duell, RN,MS & Barbara Martin
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.
Comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures that cross the nursing curriculum and can be used in clinical, or the skills laboratory. For use in hospitals and medical clinics as policy/procedure reference. This latest update is based on
8th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.
Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills is the most complete, up-to-date and useful guide to modern clinical nursing skills available! With more than 1,200 full-color images illustrating more than 800 new and updated skills, it is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies. Through extensive case studies and critical thinking features, and thoroughly explained the rationales for each skill and technique. Strong coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community based nursing is provided throughout. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, this text also contains hundreds of NCLEX®-style review questions. This edition adds a new chapter on neurological care; has integrated coverage of home care throughout; provides substantial new coverage of the 2010 national patient safety goals; and contains approximately 50 new skills.
Key Features
- More than 1,200 full-color photographs, line drawings, charts, and tables–depicting step-by-step, up-to-date nursing procedures and equipment
- Approximately 50 new skills–added throughout the resource, reflecting the National Council Test Plan and NCLEX objectives
- Heat and cold modalities–including expanded theory and rationale; warm air blankets; updated infant radiant warmers; and induced hypothermia
- Advanced Skills coverage–now including SvO2 and intra-aortic balloon pump content, as well as updated on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Medication Administration guidelines–including new guidelines for parenteral and enteral medication administration, medication reconciliation, medication labeling, and barcode medication administration
- Extensive new coverage of national patient safety goals
- Gives students a single source for complete nursing skill content and procedural steps, so they won’t have to check additional sources
- Learning Objectives and Terminology–supporting the text’s explanations of procedures with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation
- Nursing Diagnoses phrased in current terminology–preceding the text’s step-by-step procedures
- Rationales for specific nursing actions–explain why each action is performed
- Clinical Alerts–calling attention to safety issues, essential information, and actions that require critical decision making
- Cultural Competence features–illuminating the role that cultural diversity principles play in providing effective client care
- Documentation guidelines–explaining how to document skill, outcome, and client response, and why it is crucial to do so
- Gerontologic Considerations–presenting specific concepts influencing or affecting care of the elderly
- Expanded Management Guidelines–including legal, safe, and appropriate delegation of responsibilities
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