Nursing Procedures.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469881010
- 610.73
- RT41 -- .N886 2004eb
cover -- copyright -- Editor -- Previous Edition Contributors -- Foreword -- Contents -- Procedures List -- 1 Fundamental Procedures -- 2 Infection Control -- 3 Specimen Collection and Testing -- 4 Physical Treatments -- 5 Drug Administration -- 6 Intravascular Therapy -- 7 Cardiovascular Care -- 8 Respiratory Care -- 9 Neurologic Care -- 10 Gastrointestinal Care -- 11 Renal and Urologic Care -- 12 Orthopedic Care -- 13 Skin Care -- 14 Eye, Ear, and Nose Care -- 15 Psychiatric Care -- 16 Maternal-Neonatal Care -- 17 Pediatric Care -- 18 Geriatric Care -- Index.
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).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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