Nursing interventions & clinical skills /

Elkin, Martha Keene.

Nursing interventions & clinical skills / Martha Keene Elkin, Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter. - St. Louis : Mosby, c1996 - xvi, 812 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

UNIT 1: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
Nursing Diagnosis And Nursing Interventions
Facilitating Communication
Promoting Infection Control
Promoting A Safe Environment

UNIT 2: ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Promoting Activity And Mobility
Promoting Hygiene
Promoting Nutrition
Assisting With Elimination
Promoting Comfort, Sleep, And Relaxation

UNIT 3: ASSESSMENT SKILLS
Vital Signs
Shift Assessment
Comprehensive Health Assessment
Laboratory And Diagnostic Tests

Unit 4: APPLICATION OF SURGICAL ASEPSIS
Basic sterile techniques
Providing wound care

Unit 5: Administration of medications
Administration of non-parenteral medications
Administration of injections

Unit 6: Perioperative nursing care.
Preparing the client for surgery
Intraoperative techniques
Pain Management
Therapeutic use of heat and cold.

Unit 7: Managing Immobilized clients
Pressure ulcer Care
Special mattresses and beds
Traction
cast care
Assistive devices for ambulation

Unit 8: Managing complex nursing interventions.
Intravenous therapy
Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance
Promoting oxygenation
Gastric intubation
Enteral nutrition
Altered bowel elimination
Altered urinary elimination
Altered sensory perception Emergency measures for life support in the hospital setting
Care of the client with special needs
Palliative care
Discharge teaching and home health management.

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Nursing.
Clinical competence.
Nursing Process.
Nursing Care--methods.

WY 100 E436n 1996