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Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (Elkin, Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills)
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: skills, clinical, nursing, interventions, elkin, amp
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0323044581
ISBN-13: 9780323044585
Book Description:
- 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 Mosby’s Nursing Skills Videos on the Evolve® website.
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