Nursing procedures
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Nursing procedures
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2004
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Fundamental procedures
- Infection control
- Specimen collection and testing
- Physical treatments
- Drug administration
- Intravascular therapy
- Cardiovascular care
- Respiratory care
- Neurologic care
- Gastrointestinal care
- Renal and urologic care
- Orthopedic care
- Skin care
- Eye, ear, and nose care
- Psychiatric care
- Maternal-neonatal care
- Pediatric care
- Geriatric care
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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