Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills A Nursing Process Approach

by Evans-Smith, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780781751384
• ISBN10: 0781751381
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-09
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

This Brand New nursing skills text is ideal for undergraduate nursing students and is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing, 5th Edition. The text covers all of the skills and guidelines for care identified in Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing, as well as additional skills at the basic, intermediate, and advanced levels. Each skill follows the nursing process format and includes "unexpected situations" followed by an explanation of how best to react. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Pamela Evans-Smith, MSN, FNP: Clinical Nursing Instructor, University of Missouri, Columbia

Table of Contents

Actions Basic to Nursing Care
Vital Signs	p. 3
Assessment	p. 35
Safety	p. 73
Asepsis	p. 91
Medications	p. 111
Perioperative Nursing	p. 187
Promoting Healthy Physiologic Responses
Hygiene	p. 209
Skin Integrity and Wound Care	p. 251
Activity	p. 325
Comfort	p. 413
Nutrition	p. 435
Urinary Elimination	p. 465
Bowel Elimination	p. 507
Oxygenation	p. 543
Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance	p. 629
Cardiovascular Care	p. 673
Neurological Care	p. 705
Integrated Case Studies
Basic Case Studies	p. 721
Intermediate Case Studies	p. 735
Advanced Case Studies	p. 749
Glossary	p. 759
Index	p. 767
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