Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques / Edition 9

by Anne G. Perry RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Patricia A. Potter RN, PhD, FAAN, Wendy R. Ostendorf RN, MS, EdD, CNE

Overview

Master the latest clinical skills and techniques you need to succeed as a nurse with Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 9th Edition! Over 200 perforated, step-by-step checklists cover every skill and procedural guideline from Perry, Potter and Ostendorf's main text. It’s the must-have lab tool to help you build and easily assess your clinical skills proficiency

• Over 200 skills performance checklists cover every skill and procedural guideline from the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 9th Edition text.
• Thorough and convenient documentation of skill mastery makes it easy to self-evaluate your performance of specific skills.

• NEW! Updated content ensures every checklist reflects the latest accepted clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323482387
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	03/15/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN is a Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois.

Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN is a Director of Research, Patient Care Services Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Unit I: Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System 1 Using Evidence in Practice 2 Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge 3 Communication and Collaboration 4 Documentation and Informatics

Unit II: Vital Signs and Physical Assessment 5 Vital Signs 6 Health Assessment

Unit III: Special Procedures 7 Specimen Collection 8 Diagnostic Procedures

Unit IV: Infection Control 9 Medical Asepsis 10 Sterile Technique

Unit V: Activity and Mobility 11 Safe Patient Handling, Transfer and Positioning 12 Exercise and Mobility 13 Support Surfaces and Special Beds

Unit VI: Safety and Comfort 14 Patient Safety 15 Disaster Preparedness 16 Pain Management 17 Palliative Care

Unit VII: Hygiene 18 Personal Hygiene and Bed Making  19 Care of the Eye and Ear

Unit VIII: Medications 20 Safe Medicine Preparation 21 Administration of Nonparenteral Medications 22 Administration of Parenteral Medications

Unit IX: Oxygenation 23 Oxygen Therapy 24 Performing Chest Physiotherapy 25 Airway Management 26 Cardiac Care NEW! 27 Closed Chest Drainage Systems 28 Emergency Measures for Life Support

Unit X: Fluid Balance 29 Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy 30 Blood Therapy

Unit XI: Nutrition 31 Oral Nutrition 32 Enteral Nutrition 33 Parenteral Nutrition

Unit XII: Elimination 34 Urinary Elimination 35 Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation 36 Ostomy Care

Unit XIII: Care of the Surgical Patient 37 Preoperative and Postoperative Care 38 Intraoperative Care

Unit XIV: Dressings and Wound Care 39 Pressure Injury Prevention and Care Wound Care and Irrigations 40 Dressings, Bandages, and Binders 41 Warm and Cold Therapy

Unit XV: Home Care 42 Home Care Safety 43 Home Care Teaching

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Practical checklists make it easier to master nursing skills and techniques