Covers a spectrum of basic to advanced skills in a highly visual, step-by-step manner.
- UPDATED: Comprehensive coverage includes more than 550 new and updated skills with the most up-to-date nursing techniques recommended by current standards of practice.
- Skills progress from basic to complex–giving students a single skill resource for accurate and safe skill performance.
- More than 1,100 full-colour photographs, line drawings, charts, and tables guide readers through nursing procedures step-by-step.
- NEW: New skills include Determining Gastric pH and NovaCath Integrated IV System.
Organises skills around the nursing process–from assessment through evaluation. For each skill, students learn how to assess clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, perform procedures according to safe and accepted protocols, evaluate outcomes, and document pertinent data.
- Nursing Diagnoses give quick and clear guidelines for appropriate use of nursing diagnoses in client care plans.
- Helpful rationales for specific nursing actions explain why each action is performed.
- EXPANDED: Evidence-Based Nursing Practice boxes present specific scientific studies that validate the skills protocols.
- New Trends boxes present new equipment and systems that are being incorporated in 21st-century nursing care.
- Legal Alerts help nurses recognise legal pitfalls and actions that constitute legal malpractice when performing procedures.
- Clinical Alerts and Safety Alerts call attention to safety issues, essential information, nursing judgment, and actions that require critical decision making.
- Cultural Awareness sections illuminate the role that cultural diversity principles play in providing effective client care.
- Gerontologic Considerations present specific concepts influencing or affecting care of the elderly.
- Management Guidelines include two sections that help readers understand proper interpersonal communication methods and legal, safe, and appropriate delegation of responsibilities.
- Documentation sections explain important data to record regarding the skills, outcome, and client responses, and why it is crucial to do so.
- NEW: The clear, newly numbered format enables the student to easily access key material for immediate reference in the clinical area.

Helps develop the clinical-reasoning skills students need to think like nurses.

Case Study Applications provide case scenarios that help nurses develop clinical-reasoning skills.
NCLEX^®-style review questions give students practice with the types of questions that appear on the NCLEX. Answers with complete rationales are provided in the appendix.
NEW: QSEN Activities help train students to think about the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are integral to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
Evaluation/Critical Thinking sections in every unit and chapter include expected outcomes, unexpected outcomes, and alternative nursing actions.
Chapter 2, “Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process”, integrates critical thinking into the steps of the nursing process, preparing students to function in, and adapt to, clinical settings.

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