| Description |
xxxiv, 1417 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Professional nursing -- Critical thinking and the nursing process -- Managing client care: documentation and delegation -- Communication and nurse-client relationship -- Admission, 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 -- Pain management -- Alternative therapies and stress management -- Medication administration -- Nutritional management and enternal intubation -- Specimen collection -- Diagnostic procedures -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Heat and cold therapies -- Wound care and dressings -- Perioperative care -- Orthopedic interventions -- Intravenous therapy -- Central vascular access devices -- Respiratory care -- Circulatory maintenance -- Neurologic management -- Advanced nursing skills -- End-of-life care |
| Summary |
"This text teaches more than 550 nursing skills, from basic to complex. For each skill, students learn how to assess clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, perform procedures according to safe and accepted protocols, evaluate outcomes, and document pertinent data. Organized around the nursing process, the text helps readers understand the overall theory and rationales for each skill and technique. Coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community-based nursing is provided throughout." -- Publisher |
| Notes |
Previous edition published 2012, edited by Sandra F. Smith, Donna J. Duell and Barbara C. Martin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Nursing.
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Nursing Care.
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Nursing Process.
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| Reading List |
HNN325 recommended text 2024
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| Author |
Aebersold, Michelle L., author
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Duell, Donna, 1938- author
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Gonzalez, Laura (Professor of nursing), author
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Martin, Barbara C., 1940- author
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| LC no. |
2016449210 |
| ISBN |
0134087925 |
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9780134087924 |
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