| Edition |
5th ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 755, [37] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: With its new condensed format, completely reorganized and updated content, respected author team, and new lower price, Perry and Potter's Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills, 5th Edition is your all-around best choice for learning the skills and techniques you'll use every day in practice. Covering 181 skills, this highly accessible manual conveniently groups all related skills together, so you can find information quickly. The companion Evolve website features 50 video clips, skills checklists, and much more, ensuring your successful mastery of each skill: Contains 180 skills and techniques (basic, intermediate, and advanced) you'll use every day in practice. Presents every skill in a logical, consistent format: Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation - improving the quality of patient care. Pairs each step with an appropriate rationale, helping you understand and remember why specific techniques are used. Features Safety Alerts that highlight unusual risks inherent in the next step of the skill, helping you plan ahead at each step of nursing care. Uses a Glove icon as a reminder to don clean gloves before proceeding to the next step of the skill, improving patient safety. Guides you in Delegation and Collaboration, explaining when to delegate a skill to assistive personnel, and indicating what key information must be shared. Highlights Special Considerations such as information unique to pediatric or geriatric patients, to raise awareness of additional risks you may face when caring for a diverse patient population. Provides sample documentation of nurses notes so that you can learn to communicate effectively to the patient care team. Contains multimedia resources such as video clips, skills performance checklists, interactive exercises, and more, all easily available to you on the companion Evolve website at no additional cost. Content has been reorganized to make topics easier to find, improving ease of use. Covers new topics that will help you develop the skills needed to practice according to the TJC and ACCN recommendations. Covers new skills that will prepare you for nursing practice in a wide variety of environments. Features a unique new chapter, Using Evidence in Practice, that introduces you to using evidence to solve clinical problems. Introduces you to Consistent Patient Identification Protocol as recommended by The Joint Commission, improving quality of care and patient safety. Includes enhanced and greatly expanded end-of-chapter exercises, now featuring case study questions, NCLEX alternate format questions, and multiple-choice questions. |
| Contents |
Quality And Safety In Nursing Practice: -- Using evidence in nursing practice / Patricia A Potter -- Steps of evidence-based practice -- Evidence in nursing skills -- Communication and collaboration / Jacqueline Raybuck Saleeby -- Skill 2-1: Establishing the nurse-patient relationship -- Skill 2-2: Interviewing -- Skill 2-3: Communicating with anxious, angry, depressed and cognitively impaired patients -- Procedural Guideline: 2-1: Hand-off communications -- Procedural Guideline: 2-2: SBAR communication -- Documentation and informatics / Barbara Maxwell -- Procedural Guideline: 3-1: Documenting nurses' progress notes -- Procedural Guideline: 3-2: Use of electronic health records -- Procedural Guideline: 3-3: Documenting an incident occurrence -- Patient safety and quality improvement / Catherine Limbaugh -- Skill 4-1: Fall prevention -- Skill 4-2: Designing a restraint-free environment -- Skill 4-3: Applying physical restraints -- Skill 4-4: Seizure precautions -- Procedural Guideline: 4-1: Fire, electrical and chemical safety -- Procedural Guideline: 4-2: Conducting a root cause analysis -- Infection control / Ruth Curchoe -- Skill 5-1: Hand hygiene -- Skill 5-2: Applying personal protective equipment -- Skill 5-3: Caring for patients under isolation precautions -- Procedural Guideline: 5-1: Special tuberculosis precautions -- Skill 5-4: Preparing a sterile field -- Skill 5-5: Sterile gloving -- Patient Assessment Skills: -- Vital signs / Susan Jane Fetzer -- Skill 6-1: Measuring body temperature -- Skill 6-2: Assessing apical pulse -- Skill 6-3: Assessing radial pulse -- Procedural Guideline: 6-1: Assessing apical-radial pulse deficit -- Skill 6-4: Assessing respirations -- Skill 6-5: Assessing blood pressure -- Procedural Guideline: 6-2: Assessing blood pressure electronically -- Procedural Guideline: 6-3: Measuring oxygen saturation (pulse oximetry) -- Health assessment / Wendy Ostendorf -- Skill 7-1: General survey -- Procedural Guideline: 7-1: Monitoring intake and output -- Skill 7-2: Assessing the head and neck -- Skill 7-3: Assessing the thorax and lungs -- Skill 7-4: Cardiovascular assessment -- Skill 7-5: Assessing the abdomen -- Skill 7-6: Assessing the genitalia and rectum -- Skill 7-7: Musculoskeletal and neurological assessment -- Specimen collection / Aurelie Chinn -- Skill 8.1: Urine specimen collection-midstream, sterile urinary catheter -- Procedural Guideline: 8-1: Collecting 24-hour timed urine specimens -- Procedural Guideline: 8-2: Urine screening for glucose, ketones, protein, blood and pH -- Skill 8-2: Testing for gastrointestinal alterations-gastroccult test, stool specimen and hemoccult test -- Skill 8-3: Blood glucose monitoring -- Skill 8-4: Collecting blood specimens-venipuncture with syringe, venipuncture with vacutainer and blood cultures -- Skill 8-5: Collecting specimens from the nose and throat -- Skill 8-6: Collecting a sputum specimen -- Skill 8-7: Obtaining wound drainage specimens for culture -- Diagnostic procedures / Anne Griffin Perry -- Skill 9-1: Contrast media studies: Arteriogram (angiogram), cardiac catheterization intravenous pyelogram -- Skill 9-2: Care of patients undergoing aspirations: bone marrow, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, thoracentesis -- Skill 9-3: Care of patients undergoing bronchoscopy -- Skill 9-4: Care of patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy -- Basic Human Needs: -- Promoting hygiene / Terry L Wood -- Skill 10-1: Complete bathing -- Procedural Guideline: 10-1: Perineal care -- Procedural Guideline: 10-2: Use of disposable bag bath -- Procedural Guideline: 10-3: Oral care for the debilitated or unconscious patient -- Procedural Guideline: 10-4: Care of dentures -- Procedural Guideline: 10-5: Hair care-shampooing and shaving -- Procedural Guidelines 10-6: Foot and nail care -- Procedural Guideline: 10-7: Making an occupied bed -- Procedural Guideline: 10-8: Making an unoccupied and surgical bed -- Care of the eye and ear / Anne Griffin Perry -- Skill 11-1: Eye irrigation -- Procedural Guideline: 11-1: Eye care for the comatose patient -- Procedural Guideline: 11-2: Caring for an eye prosthesis -- Skill 11-2: Ear irrigation -- Skill 11-3: Caring for a hearing aid -- Promoting nutrition / Patricia A Potter -- Skill 12-1: Feeding dependent patients -- Skill 12-2: Aspiration precautions -- Skill 12-3: Insertion and removal of a small-bore feeding tube -- Skill 12-4: Verifying feeding tube placement and irrigation -- Skill 12-5: Administering tube feedings via nasogastric, gastrostomy, and jejunostomy tubes -- Procedural Guideline: 12-1: Site care of enteral feeding tubes -- Pain management / Patricia A Potter -- Skill 13-1: Nonpharmacological pain management -- Procedural Guideline: 13-1: Relaxation and guided imagery -- Skill 13-2: Pharmacological pain management -- Skill 13-3: Patient-controlled analgesia -- Skill 13-4: Epidural analgesia -- Skill 13-5: Local anesthetic infusion pump for analgesia -- Promoting oxygenation / Kelly Jo Cone -- Skill 14-1: Oxygen administration -- Skill 14-2: Airway management: noninvasive interventions -- Procedural Guideline: 14-1: Peak expiratory flow rate -- Skill 14-3: Chest physiotherapy -- Skill 14-4: Airway management: suctioning -- Skill 14-5: Airway management: endotracheal tube and tracheostomy care -- Skill 14-6: Managing closed chest drainage systems -- Activity And Mobility: -- Safe patient handling, transfer and positioning / Rita Wunderlich -- Skill 15-1: Transfer techniques -- Procedural Guideline: 15-1: Wheelchair transfer techniques -- Skill 15-2: Moving and positioning patients in bed -- Exercise and mobility / Nancy Laplante -- Procedural Guideline: 16-1: Range of motion -- Skill 16-1: Continuous passive motion machine -- Procedural Guideline: 16-2: Applying elastic stockings and sequential compression device -- Skill 16-2: Assisting with ambulation -- Skill 16-3: Teaching use of canes, crutches and walkers -- Traction, cast care and immobilization devices / Wanda Cleveland Dubuisson -- Skill 17-1: Care of the patient in skin traction -- Skill 17-2: Care of the patient in skeletal traction and pin site care -- Skill 17-3: Care of the patient during cast application -- Procedural Guideline: 17-1: Care of the patient during cast removal -- Skill 17-4: Care of the patient with an immobilization device-brace, splint or sling -- |
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Promoting Elimination: -- Urinary elimination / Donna L Thompson -- Procedural Guideline: 18-1: Assisting with use of a urinal -- Skill 18-1: Applying a condom-type external catheter -- Procedural Guideline: 18-2: Bladder scan -- Skill 18-2: Insertion of a straight or indwelling catheter -- Skill 18-3: Removal of an indwelling catheter -- Procedural Guideline: 18-3: Care of an indwelling catheter -- Skill 18-4: Suprapubic catheter care -- Skill 18-5: Performing catheter irrigation -- Bowel elimination and gastric intubation / Anne Griffin Perry -- Procedural Guideline: 19-1: Providing a bedpan -- Skill 19-1: Removing fecal impaction -- Skill 19-2: Administering an enema -- Skill 19-3: Insertion, maintenance, and removal of a nasogastric tube for gastric decompression -- Ostomy care / Jane Fellows -- Skill 20-1: Pouching a bowel diversion -- Skill 20-2: Pouching an incontinent urostomy -- Skill 20-3: Catheterizing a urinary diversion -- Medication Administration: -- Preparation for safe medication administration / Wendy Ostendorf -- Patient-centered care -- Safety -- Pharmacokinetics -- Drug actions -- Administering medications -- Evidence-based practice trends -- Distribution systems -- Medication administration record -- Six rights of medication administration -- Systems of measurement -- Nursing process -- Patient and family teaching -- Special handling of controlled substances -- Administration of nonparenteral medications / Patricia A Potter -- Skill 22-1: Administering oral medications -- Skill 22-2: Administering medication through a feeding tube -- Skill 22-3: Applying topical medications to the skin -- Skill 22-4: Instilling eye and ear medications -- Skill 22-5: Using metered-dose inhalers -- Procedural Guideline: 22-1: Using a dry powder inhaler (DPI) -- Skill 22-6: Using small-volume nebulizers -- Procedural Guideline: 22-2: Administering vaginal medications -- Procedural Guideline: 22-3: Administering rectal suppositories -- Administration of parenteral medications / Wendy Ostendorf -- Skill 23-1: Preparing injections: vials and ampules -- Procedural Guideline: 23-1: Mixing medications in on syringe -- Skill 23-2: Administering subcutaneous injections -- Skill 23-3: Administering intramuscular injections -- Skill 23-4: Administering intradermal injections -- Skills 23-5: Administering medications by intravenous bolus -- Skill 23-6: Administering intravenous medications by piggyback, intermittent infusion, and mini-infusion pumps -- Skill 23-7: Administering continuous subcutaneous medications -- Dressing And Wound Care: -- Wound care and irrigation / Janice C Colwell -- Procedural Guideline: 24-1: Performing a wound assessment -- Skill 24-1: Wound irrigation -- Skill 24-2: Managing drainage evacuation -- Skill 24-3: Removing sutures and staples -- Skill 24-4: Negative-pressure wound therapy -- Pressure ulcers / Janice C Colwell -- Procedural Guideline: 25-1: Selection of a pressure-reducing support surface -- Skill 25-1: Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention strategies -- Skill 25-2: Treatment of pressure ulcers and wound management -- Dressings, bandages and binders / Kim Campbell Oliveri and Patricia A Potter -- Skill 26-1: Applying a gauze dressing (dry and moist-to-dry) -- Skill 26-2: Applying a pressure bandage -- Procedural Guideline: 26-1: Applying a transparent dressing -- Skill 26-3: Applying hydrocolloid, hydrogel, foam, or absorption dressings -- Procedural Guideline: 26-2: Applying gauze and elastic bandages -- Procedural Guideline: 26-3: Applying abdominal and breast binders -- Therapeutic use of heat and cold / Peter R Miller -- Skill 27-1: Moist heat -- Skill 27-2: Dry heat -- Skill 27-3 Cold Applications -- Complex Nursing Interventions: -- Intravenous therapy / Virginia Strootman -- Skill 28-1: Insertion of a peripheral-short intravenous device -- Skill 28-2: Regulating intravenous infusion flow rates -- Skill 28-3: maintenance of intravenous site -- Procedural Guideline: 28-1: Discontinuing peripheral-short intravenous access -- Skill 28-4: Administration of parenteral nutrition -- Skill 28-5: Transfusion of blood products -- Preoperative and postoperative care / Rhonda Yancey -- Skill 29-1: Preoperative assessment -- Skill 29-2: Preoperative teaching -- Skill 29-3: Physical preparation for surgery -- Skill 29-4: Managing the patient receiving moderate sedation -- Skill 29-5: Providing immediate anesthesia recovery in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) -- Skill 29-6: Providing early postoperative and convalescent phase recovery -- Emergency measures for life support in the hospital setting / Nelda K martin -- Skill 30-1: Inserting a oropharyngeal airway -- Skill 30-2: Using an automated external defibrillator -- Skill 30-3: Code management -- Supportive Nursing Interventions: -- Palliative care / Valerie J Yancey -- Skill 31-1: Supporting patients and families in grief -- Skill 31-2: Care of the dying patient -- Skill 31-3: Care of the body after death -- Home care safety / Nancy Laplante -- Skill 32-1: Home health safety and assessment -- Skill 32-2: Adapting the home setting for clients with cognitive deficits -- Skill 32-3: Medication and medical device safety -- Appendixes: -- A: Answer key to end-of-chapter exercises, A-1 -- B: Abbreviations and equivalents, A-16. |
| Subject |
Nursing.
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Clinical competence.
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Nursing Process. |
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Nursing Care -- methods. |
| Added Author |
Perry, Anne Griffin.
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Potter, Patricia Ann.
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Elkin, Martha Keene.
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| Note |
Nursing interventions and clinical skills |
| ISBN |
9780323069687 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0323069681 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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