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9781582552811

Nursing Procedures

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  • ISBN13:

    9781582552811

  • ISBN10:

    1582552819

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-01-27
  • Publisher: LWW
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Summary

The newly revised Fourth Edition of this popular and widely used reference is a start-to-finish guide for nearly 400 basic and advanced nursing procedures. It provides step-by-step instructions for each procedure, explains how to use and troubleshoot equipment, and presents key information on rationales, cautions, complications, patient teaching, and documentation. The user-friendly format includes checklists, quick-scanning tables, logos that flag essential information, and more than 700 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques. This edition features a brand-new chapter on psychiatric nursing procedures and new entries on prone positioning, surgical site verification, ST segment monitoring, swallowing and aspiration precautions, and bispectral index monitoring (BIS).

Table of Contents

Advisory board vii
Contributors ix
Foreword xi
1 FUNDAMENTAL PROCEDURES
1(114)
2 INFECTION CONTROL
115(16)
3 SPECIMEN COLLECTION AND TESTING
131(32)
4 PHYSICAL TREATMENTS
163(49)
5 DRUG ADMINISTRATION
212(58)
6 INTRAVASCULAR THERAPY
270(71)
7 CARDIOVASCULAR CARE
341(80)
8 RESPIRATORY CARE
421(82)
9 NEUROLOGIC CARE
503(40)
10 GASTROINTESTINAL CARE 543(51)
11 RENAL AND UROLOGIC CARE 594(40)
12 ORTHOPEDIC CARE 634(30)
13 SKIN CARE 664(28)
14 EYE, EAR, AND NOSE CARE 692(14)
15 PSYCHIATRIC CARE 706(18)
16 MATERNAL-NEONATAL CARE 724(54)
17 PEDIATRIC CARE 778(24)
18 GERIATRIC CARE 802(17)
Index 819

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