Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

by Elkin, Martha Keene

• ISBN13: 9780323044585
• ISBN10: 0323044581
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-23
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

This market-leading, user-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of nearly 150 nursing skills in a streamlined, step-by-step, visual format. More than 860 full-color photos and drawings clarify key concepts, bringing important procedures and techniques to life. The nursing process framework helps put nursing skills in the context of care delivery and rationales for key steps help you understand why specific techniques are used. The nursing process provides a consistent framework that helps you understand where skills fit into the broader context of patient care. A section on standard beginning and completion protocols is printed on the inside front cover so that routine steps are not repeated throughout the text. Similar skills are covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught. Easy-to-follow, 2-column format lists key steps for each skill with appropriate rationales to help you understand and remember why specific techniques are used. Over 860 full-color photographs and drawings clearly show how key procedures and specific steps are performed. Nurse Alerts bring important safety issues or critical steps to your attention. A Glove logo provides a visual reminder of when to apply clean gloves. Sterile Gloving instructions are highlighted in easy-to-spot, bright blue type. Delegation Considerations provide essential guidance for delegating a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel. Special considerations include age-related, home care, and long-term care issues. Communication Tips help you prepare and support clients for procedures. An Evidence-Based Practice section in each chapter summarizes a relevant nursing research study and its findings, explaining its application to best practice. New skills cover Neurological Assessment; Application of Antiembolism Stockings and Sequential Compression Device; Obtaining Blood Pressure from Lower Extremity by Auscultation; Electronic Blood Pressure Measurement; Urine Screening for Glucose, Ketones, Proteins, Blood, and pH; and Teaching Clients Self-Injection, Breast and Testicular Self-Examinations. NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter prepare you for the exam and include the new alternate-item format questions. Cross-references to Nursing Skills Online direct you to the appropriate module and lesson for skills included in the course. A View Video icon reminds you to watch more than 80 video-clips from Mosbys Nursing Skills Videos on the Evolve® website.

Table of Contents

Professional Nursing Practice

Documenting Nurses Progress Notes

Giving a Change-of-Shift Report

Facilitating Communication

Establishing Nurse-Client Relationship

Interviewing

Communicating With Anxious Client

Communicating with Angry Client

Communicating with Depressed ClientNEW!

Promoting a Safe Environment

Procedural Guideline 3-1 Fire, Electrical and Radiation SafetyNEW!

Fall Prevention

Designing a Restraint-Free Environment

Applying Physical Restraints

Seizure Precautions

Procedural Guideline 3-2 Writing an Incident Report

Medical Aseptic Techniques

Hand Hygiene

Caring for Clients Under Isolation Precautions

Special Tuberculosis Precautions

Basic Sterile Techniques

Applying Personal Protective EquipmentNEW!

Preparing a Sterile Field

Sterile Gloving

Promoting Activity and Mobility

Assisting With Moving and Positioning Clients in Bed

Using Safe and Effective Transfer Technique

Assisting with Ambulation

Teaching Use of Cane, Crutches and Walker

Continuous Passive Motion Machine (CPM) (For Client with Total Knee Replacement).

Procedural Guideline 6-1 Applying Elastic Stockings and Sequential Compression Device .NEW!

Procedural Guideline 6-2 Range of Motion Exercises

Promoting Hygiene

Complete Bathing

Procedural Guideline 7-1 Commercial Bag Bath or Cleansing PackNEW!

Oral Care for the Debilitated or Unconscious Client

Procedural Guideline 7-2 Care of Dentures

Hair Care

Foot and Nail Care

Bedmaking

Procedural Guideline 7-3 Unoccupied Bedmaking and Surgical BedEXPANDED!

Promoting Nutrition

Feeding Dependent Clients

Aspiration Precautions

Procedural Guideline 8-1 Standing Height and Weight on Platform or Chair Scale

Assisting With Elimination

Monitoring Intake and Output

Providing a Bedpan and Urinal

Applying an External Catheter

Catheter Care

Administering an Enema

Promoting Comfort and Pain Control

Nonpharmacological Comfort Measures

Relaxation and Guided ImageryNEW!

Pharmacological Pain Management

Patient-Controlled Analgesia

Epidural Analgesia

Local Anesthetic Infusion Pump for Analgesia

Vital Signs

Assessing Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, and Blood Pressure

Procedural Guideline 11-1 Obtaining Blood Pressure from Lower Extremity by Auscultation

Procedural Guideline 11-2 Electronic Blood Pressure Measurement

Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Pulse Oximetry

Health Assessment

General Survey

Assessing the Head and Neck

Assessing the Thorax and Lungs

Cardiovascular AssessmentNEW!

Assessing the Abdomen

Musculoskeletal and Neurological AssessmentNEW!

Laboratory Tests

Urine Specimen CollectionMidstream, Sterile Urinary Catheter

Procedural Guideline 13-1 Collecting 24-Hour Timed Urine Specimens

Procedural Guideline 13-2 Urine Screening for Glucose, Ketones, Protein, Blood, and pH

Testing for Gastrointestinal Alterations (Gastroccult Test, Stool Specimen, and Hemoccult Test)

Blood Glucose Monitoring

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