Details

Edition

Fifth edition.

Description

xxi, 1151 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Asepsis and infection control -- Vital signs -- Health assessment -- Safety -- Medications -- Perioperative nursing -- Hygiene -- Skin integrity and wound care -- Activity -- Comfort and pain management -- Nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- Oxygenation -- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance -- Cardiovascular care -- Neurologic care -- Laboratory specimen collection -- Basic case studies -- Intermediate case studies -- Advanced case studies.

Summary

From basic nursing processes to advanced clinical capabilities, "Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach" helps you hone your cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal capabilities and master patient interaction, clinical reasoning, and communication skills essential to safe and effective person-centered care. Step-by-step, evidence-based guidelines walk you through common practices and simplify complex procedures, accompanied by key considerations for documentation, delegation, and other tasks you'll encounter throughout the nursing process, from your first day on the job to every stage of your nursing career. -- From publisher's description.

Subject

Nursing.

Nursing Process

Nursing Care -- methods

Nursing.

Added Title

Clinical nursing skills

ISBN

9781496384881 (paperback)

1496384881 (paperback)

9781496399786

1496399781