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Clinical Nursing Skills: A Concept-Based Approach, 4th edition

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Overview

Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning is the only concepts curriculum built from the ground up as a comprehensive, cohesive learning system. This 3-volume series provides all the nursing curriculum content and materials needed to prepare you for nursing practice. Through complementary exemplars and assessment tools, you'll deepen your grasp of the connections between concepts, with broad applications.

Volume III, Clinical Nursing Skills, is the only volume of any concept-based curriculum devoted exclusively to nursing skills. The 4th Edition will help you learn and apply essential skills and knowledge for patient care, while relating topics to broader contexts. The content covers the lifespan, from pregnancy and birth, through childhood and adolescence, and into young, middle and old age.

Published by Pearson (July 28th 2022) - Copyright © 2023

ISBN-13: 9780137664733

Subject: Concept-Based Nursing

Category: Clinical Nursing Skills: A Concept-Based Approach

Table of contents

  1. Assessment
    • General Assessment
    • Vital Signs
    • Physical Assessment
    • Physical Assessment for the Newborn
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  2. Caring Interventions
    • Bed Care and Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
    • Medication Administration Systems
    • Medication Preparation
    • Medication Routes
    • Parenteral Routes
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  3. Comfort
    • Acute/Chronic Pain Management
    • Heat and Cold Application
    • End-of-Life Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  4. Elimination
    • Assessment: Collecting Specimens
    • Bladder Interventions
    • Bowel Interventions
    • Dialysis
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  5. Fluids and Electrolytes
    • Fluid Balance Measurement
    • Intravenous Therapy
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  6. Infection
    • Medical Asepsis
    • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Isolation Precautions
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  7. Intracranial Regulation
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  8. Metabolism
    • General Metabolism
    • Diabetes Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  9. Mobility
    • Balance and Strength
    • Moving and Transferring a Patient
    • Patient Assistive Devices
    • Traction and Cast Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  10. Nutrition
    • Healthy Eating Habits
    • Enteral Nutrition Using a Feeding Tube
    • Parenteral Nutrition Using Intravenous Infusion
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  11. Oxygenation
    • Assessment
    • Interventions
    • Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
    • Maintaining a Patent Airway
    • Maintaining Lung Expansion
    • Life-threatening Situations
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  12. Perfusion
    • Maintaining Blood Volume
    • Antiembolism Devices
    • Electrical Conduction in the Heart
    • Arterial Line
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  13. Perioperative Care
    • General Perioperative Care
    • Using Sterile Technique
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  14. Reproduction
    • Antepartum Care
    • Intrapartum Care
    • Postpartum Care
    • Newborn Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  15. Safety
    • Patient Safety
    • Environmental Safety
    • Immobilizers and Restraints
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes
  16. Tissue Integrity
    • General Assessment
    • Dressings and Binders
    • Wound Care
    • Critical Thinking Options for Unexpected Outcomes

APPENDICES

  1. Answers to Review Questions
  2. Guidelines for Laboratory and Diagnostic Assessment

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