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Clinical nursing skills : basic to advanced skills / Sandra F. Smith, Donna J. Duell, Barbara C. Martin.

By: Smith, Sandra Fucci.
Contributor(s): Duell, Donna, 1938- | Martin, Barbara, M.S.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008Edition: 7th ed.Description: lvi, 1457 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).ISBN: 0132243555; 9780132243551.Subject(s): Nursing | Nursing Care | Nursing ProcessOnline resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Professional nursing - Nursing process and critical thinking -- Managing client care: documentation and delegation -- Communication and nurse-client relationship -- Administation, transfer, and discharge -- Client education and discharge planning -- Safe client environment and restraints -- Bathing, bedmaking, and maintaining skin integrity -- Personal hygiene -- Vital signs -- Physical assessment -- Body mechanics and positioning -- Exercise and ambulation -- Infection control -- Disaster preparedness; bioterrorism -- Pain management -- Alternative therapies and stress management -- Medication administration -- Nutrition management and NG intubation -- Speciment collection -- Diagnostic procedures -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Heat and cold therapies -- Wound care and dressings -- Respiratory care -- Circulatory maintenance -- Intravenous therapy -- Central vascular access devices -- Orthopedic intervention -- Postoperative care -- End-of-life care -- Advanced nursing skills -- Community-based nursing -- Appendix: Answers and rationales to review questions.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books RT41 .S65 2008 (Browse shelf) Available S.O
General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Staff Office Non-fiction RT41.S65 2008 (Browse shelf) Available MA-SCHOOL OF GRADUATE AND ADVANCED STUDIES
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 1415-1425) and index.

Professional nursing - Nursing process and critical thinking -- Managing client care: documentation and delegation -- Communication and nurse-client relationship -- Administation, transfer, and discharge -- Client education and discharge planning -- Safe client environment and restraints -- Bathing, bedmaking, and maintaining skin integrity -- Personal hygiene -- Vital signs -- Physical assessment -- Body mechanics and positioning -- Exercise and ambulation -- Infection control -- Disaster preparedness; bioterrorism -- Pain management -- Alternative therapies and stress management -- Medication administration -- Nutrition management and NG intubation -- Speciment collection -- Diagnostic procedures -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Heat and cold therapies -- Wound care and dressings -- Respiratory care -- Circulatory maintenance -- Intravenous therapy -- Central vascular access devices -- Orthopedic intervention -- Postoperative care -- End-of-life care -- Advanced nursing skills -- Community-based nursing -- Appendix: Answers and rationales to review questions.

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