- Coverage of more than 160 skills and interventions addresses the basic, intermediate, and advanced skills you'll use every day in practice.
- Safe Patient Care Alerts highlight risks or other key information to know in performing skills, so you can plan ahead at each step of nursing care.
- Unique! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chapter provides the information needed to use evidence-based care to solve clinical problems.
- Coverage of evidence-based nursing techniques includes the concept of care bundles, structured practices that improve patient safety and outcomes, in addition to the coverage of teach-back.
- Delegation & Collaboration guidelines help you make decisions in whether to delegate a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel, and indicates what key information must be shared.
- Teach-Back step shows how to evaluate the success of patient teaching, so you can see whether the patient understands a task or topic or if additional teaching may be needed.
- Recording guidelines describe what should be reported and documented after performing skills, with Hand-off Reporting sections listing important patient care information to include in the handoff.
- Special Considerations indicate the additional risks or accommodations you may face when caring for pediatric or geriatric patients, as well as patients in home care settings.
- A consistent format for nursing skills makes it easier to perform skills, organized by Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
- Media resources include skills performance checklists on the Evolve companion website and related lessons, videos, and interactive exercises on Nursing Skills Online.
- NEW! 2017 Infusion Nurses Society standards are included on administering IVs and on other changes in evidence-based practice.
- NEW Disaster Preparedness chapter focuses on caring for patients after biological, chemical, or radiation exposure.
- NEW! SBAR samples show how to quickly and effectively communicate a patient's condition in terms of Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation.
- NEW! Practice Reflections sections include a clinical scenario and questions, helping you reflect on clinical and simulation experiences.
- NEW! Three Master Debriefs help you develop a better understanding of the "big picture" by synthesizing skill performance with overall patient care.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Quality and Safety in Nursing Practice 1. Using Evidence in Nursing Practice 2. Communication & Collaboration 3. Documentation and Informatics 4. Patient Safety & Quality Improvement 5. Infection Control 6. Disaster Preparedness
Unit 2: Patient Assessment Skills 7. Vital Signs 8. Health Assessment 9. Specimen Collection 10. Diagnostic Procedures
Unit 3: Basic Human Needs 11. Bathing and Personal Hygiene 12. Care of the Eye and Ear 13. Promoting Nutrition 14. Parenteral Nutrition 15. Pain Management 16. Promoting Oxygenation
Unit 4: Activity and Mobility 17. Safe Patient Handling 18. Exercise, Mobility & Immobilization Devices
Unit 5: Promoting Elimination 19. Urinary Elimination 20. Bowel Elimination 21. Ostomy Care
Unit 6: Medication Administration 22. Preparation for Safe Medication Administration 23. Nonparenteral Medications 24. Parenteral Medications
Unit 7: Dressings and Wound Care 25. Wound Care and Irrigation 26. Pressure Injury Prevention and Care 27. Dressings Bandages and Binders
Unit 8: Complex Nursing Interventions 28. Intravenous Therapy 29. Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care 30. Emergency Measures for Life Support
Unit 9: Supportive Nursing Interventions 31. End-of-Life Care 32. Home Care Safety
