promoting patient health and preventing complications /
Kimm Wuestenberg
1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index
Elements of environmental husbandry -- Considerations in patient management -- Patient exam and assessments -- Nutritional notability -- Monitoring the fluid therapy patient -- Physical therapy applications -- Perioperative patient management -- Executing emergency care -- Harmonizing hospice needs -- Venous and arterial catheter care -- Indwelling urinary catheter care and maintenance -- Feeding tube care -- Nasal oxygen catheter care -- Tracheostomy tube care -- Chest tube care -- Cardiovascular nursing -- Regard for the respiratory patient -- Grasping gastrointestinal nursing care -- Rendering renal care -- Endocrine nursing encounters -- Nursing care of the neurological patient -- Musculoskeletal minding -- Tending to the skin and special senses