Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-551) and index.
Basic care. Hygiene ; Infection control -- Assessment. Vital signs ; Physical assessment -- Medication administration. Oral and topical medications ; Parenteral medications -- Respiratory. Noninvasive pulmonary hygiene ; Oxygen therapy ; Ventilation support ; Airway suctioning ; Lung re-expansion or chest drainage -- Cardiovascular. Intravenous fluid therapy ; Circulatory maintenance ; Blood transfusion therapy -- Nutritional and digestive. Oral and enteric nutrition ; Parenteral nutrition ; Gastrointestinal intubation ; Bowel elimination -- Renal and urinary. Urinary elimination ; Bladder irrigation and function -- Musculoskeletal. Body alignment and mechanics ; Exercise and ambulation ; Transfer and positioning ; Orthopedic interventions ; Beds, frames, and mattresses -- Integumentary system and wound care. Pressure ulcers ; Wound care -- Specimen collection. Collecting blood samples ; Collecting urine samples ; Collecting other samples.
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This full-color, extensively-illustrated, pocket-sized handbook offers both students and clinicians an easy-to-use reference to the clinical procedures that nurses need to perform daily in every care setting, including critically important client teaching procedures not covered in other books. Each skill is based on the steps of the nursing process to help students apply classroom learning to the clinical setting and is organized as follows: overview, preparation, relevant nursing diagnoses, expected outcomes, equipment lists, step-by-step implementation with rationales, evaluation, and follow-up activities, and key points for reporting and recording.