Clinical Skills Manual for Maternal & Child Nursing Care

by London, Marcia L.; Ladewig, Patricia A.; Ball, Jane W.; Bindler, Ruth C.

• ISBN13: 9780131736283
• ISBN10: 0131736280
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This colorful skills atlas servers as a portable, quick-reference to the step-by-step nursing procedures nurses need to know. The manual guides you through more than 85 skills using full-color photographs and rationales. It also includes chapters on physical assessment, special pain management techniques, cardiorespiratory care, administration of medications, including intravenous access, and other information useful to nurses in the clinical setting. Margin boxes and tables with important safety issues, growth and development considerations, teaching for families, and clinical tips are throughout. Appendices provide information on growth grids and calculation of body surface area for medication administration.

Table of Contents

Protective methods	p. 1
Women's health and prenatal care	p. 7
Intrapartum	p. 21
Postpartum	p. 36
Newborn	p. 44
Informed consent	p. 54
Positioning and restraining therapies	p. 57
Transporting the child	p. 64
Physical assessment	p. 68
Specimen collection	p. 86
Administration of medication and irrigations	p. 101
Intravenous access	p. 119
Pain assessment and management	p. 133
Cardiorespiratory care	p. 141
Nutrition	p. 175
Elimination	p. 183
Skin and musculoskeletal care	p. 189
Physical growth charts	p. 198
Blood pressure values by age, sex, and height percentiles	p. 208
West nomogram-body surface area	p. 212
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