Core skills for caring and assessment
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Core skills for caring and assessment
(Midwifery practice guides, 7)
Books for Midwives Press, 2002
Rev. repr
Available at 2 libraries
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Core Skills for Caring and Assessment" provides concise explanations of clinical skills vital to midwifery practice, with basic physiology, step-by-step procedures and lists for quick reference. Key topics covered in this title include: measuring temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure; drug administration procedures and legislation; infection control and aseptic technique; venepuncture and intravenous therapy; urinary catheterisation principles and procedures; wound management and suturing; and, caring for the immobile woman.
Table of Contents
- Observations: Temperature
- Pulse
- Respiration
- Blood pressure
- Drug administration: Legislation
- General principles
- Infection control: Causes of infection
- Infection control
- Intravenous Therapy: Continuous infusion pumps
- Commonly prescribed fluids
- Blood transfusion
- Venepuncture: Anatomy and physiology
- Carrying out venepuncture
- Safe sharp practice
- Urinary investigations: Physiology
- Obtaining a specimen of urine
- Urinary catheterisation
- Wound care: Physiology
- Factors affecting wound healing
- Wound dressings
- Wound assessment
- Care of the immobile woman: Pressure sores
- Thrombosis
- Respiratory tract infection
- Personal hygiene care
- Manual handling issues
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