This thoroughly revised and updated edition features a streamlined, visually-oriented approach to nursing skills. The full-color design, hundreds of photos and drawings, and clear writing style appeal to all levels of learners. This revision addresses expanding nursing roles and changes in practice, with the addition of higher level skills and increased coverage of care in the home, community, and long-term care settings. The unique approach of clustering similar and related skills makes learning easier for students. * Includes 166 basic, intermediate and advanced skills * Provides standard beginning and completion protocols for each skill to avoid repetition. * Combines similar and related skills, such as measuring temperature with different types of thermometers, to reflect the way they are commonly taught and performed. * Contains concise, clear two-column format which is easy to read and follow. * Features rationales for key steps to help students understand and remember why specific techniques are used. * Includes Nurse alerts to focus on safety issues or critical steps in the skill, and guide students in providing safe, effective care. * Includes glove logo to provide a visual reminder to use gloves for infection control practices. * Provides over 1,000 full color photographs and drawings showing how steps are performed. * Incorporates the 5-step nursing process to provide a logical, consistent format for presenting skills. * Contains Critical Thinking Exercises at end of each chapter to help students develop clinical decision-making abilities. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website with skills checklists at:www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Elkin/)

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Medical Books

Potter RN MSN PhD FAAN, Patricia A.

Potter, Patricia A.

Perry, Anne Griffin

Elkin, Martha Keene

Perry RN EdD FAAN, Anne Griffin

Elkin RN MSN IBCLC, Martha Keene

Nursing

Mosby

Designed to accompany Elkin's Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 3rd edition text, these handy checklists serve as a valuable assessment tool for each skill presented in the textbook.

Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills provides complete coverage of basic, intermediate, and advanced skills in a streamlined, visually-oriented format. This text features a unique, user-friendly, full-color presentation, with more than a thousand photos and drawings. The nursing process framework and clear, 2-column format with rationales help put nursing skills into the context of care delivery. Skills are clustered, with similar skills covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught.
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<li>Includes basic, intermediate, and advanced skills.</li>
<li>Standard beginning and completion protocols for each skill are summarized on inside front cover for easy reference so that routine steps need not be constantly repeated.</li>
<li>Skills are clustered, with similar skills covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught.</li>
<li>Easy-to-follow 2-column format for skills includes rationales for key steps to help students understand why specific techniques are used.</li>
<li>Nurse-Alerts highlight safety issues or critical steps in the skills</li>
<li>Glove logo provides a visual reminder to apply clean gloves.</li>
<li>Delegation Considerations guide nurses when assigning a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel.</li>
<li>Special considerations include age-related, home-care, and long term care.</li>
<li>Communication Tips provide guidelines for students on how to prepare, support, and instruct clients.</li>
<li>Over a thousand full-color photographs and drawings clearly show how steps are performed.</li>
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<li>Six new skills include Wound Vac, Verifying Tube Placement for a Large-Bore or Small-Bore Feeding Tube, Removal of an Indwelling Catheter, Urinary Diversions, Adapting the Home Setting for Clients with Cognitive Deficits, and Medication and Medication Device Safety.</li>
<li>New chapter on Palliative Care (Chapter 39) covers Care of the Dying Client.</li>
<li> Includes new 2002 CDC Hand Hygiene guidelines.</li>
<li>Documentation samples focus on how to document unexpected responses.</li>
<li>Expanded Home Care and Long Term Care considerations.</li>
<li>Client teaching is expanded throughout and incorporated into Communication Tips.</li>
<li>Visually highlights sterile gloving step to emphasize the importance of this essential action.</li>
<li>Includes new content on brushless surgical scrubbing and antimicrobial agent handwashing.</li>
<li>New unit on Wound Care (Unit 6) groups wound care, pressure ulcers, dressings and therapeutic use of heat and cold.</li>
<li>Surgical Wounds and Pressure Ulcers addressed in separate chapters.</li>
<li>All illustrations include complete legends for quick identification.</li>
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Potter RN PhD FAAN, Patricia A.

Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN, Anne G.

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Elkin's Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 3rd edition text &amp; the Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 3rd edition.

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills - Text & Checklists Package

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills - Text with Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM - Student Version Package

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Elkin's Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 3rd edition text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs 2.0 - Student Version.

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs Student Version 2.0 Package

This market-leading, user-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of nearly 150 nursing skills in a streamlined, step-by-step, visual format. More than 860 full-color photos and drawings clarify key concepts, bringing important procedures and techniques to life. The nursing process framework helps put nursing skills in the context of care delivery and rationales for key steps help you understand why specific techniques are used.
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<li>The nursing process provides a consistent framework that helps you understand where skills fit into the broader context of patient care.</li>
<li>A section on standard beginning and completion protocols is printed on the inside front cover so that routine steps are not repeated throughout the text.</li>
<li>Similar skills are covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught.</li>
<li>Easy-to-follow, 2-column format lists key steps for each skill with appropriate rationales to help you understand and remember why specific techniques are used.</li>
<li>Over 860 full-color photographs and drawings clearly show how key procedures and specific steps are performed.</li>
<li>Nurse Alerts bring important safety issues or critical steps to your attention.</li>
<li>A Glove logo provides a visual reminder of when to apply clean gloves.</li>
<li>Sterile Gloving instructions are highlighted in easy-to-spot, bright blue type.</li>
<li>Delegation Considerations provide essential guidance for delegating a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel.</li>
<li>Special considerations include age-related, home care, and long-term care issues.</li>
<li>Communication Tips help you prepare and support clients for procedures.</li>
</ul>
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<li>An Evidence-Based Practice section in each chapter summarizes a relevant nursing research study and its findings, explaining its application to best practice.</li>
<li>New skills cover Neurological Assessment; Application of Antiembolism Stockings and Sequential Compression Device; Obtaining Blood Pressure from Lower Extremity by Auscultation; Electronic Blood Pressure Measurement; Urine Screening for Glucose, Ketones, Proteins, Blood, and pH; and Teaching Clients Self-Injection, Breast and Testicular Self-Examinations.</li>
<li>NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter prepare you for the exam and include the new alternate-item format questions.</li>
<li>Cross-references to Nursing Skills Online direct you to the appropriate module and lesson for skills included in the course.</li>
<li>A View Video icon reminds you to watch more than 80 video-clips from Mosby's Nursing Skills Videos on the Evolve® website.</li>
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Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Elkin's Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 4th edition text &amp; the Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 4th edition.

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Checklists Package

Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN, Anne Griffin

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Elkin's Nursing Interventions &amp; Clinical Skills, 4th edition text &amp; Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs 2.0 - Student Version.

Nursing Skills Online is an interactive and evaluative learning system designed to support Elkin's Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills, 4th Edition text. Focusing on the skills that are most labor-intensive to teach and pose the greatest risk to patient safety, this course is the perfect tool to help users review and evaluate their competency before performing skills in the clinical setting. This online course consists of 17 modules organized around the 5-step nursing process. Each module challenges users with a series of realistic, case-based lessons that consist of objectives, a content overview, reading assignments, numerous interactive exercises, and a post-test. Lessons include helpful tables, graphs, charts, illustrations, photographs, animations, audio clips, and videos throughout ― all designed to make the learning experience more visual, realistic, and engaging.

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Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Skills Performance Checklists for Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills - Text & Checklists Package

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills - Text with Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROM - Student Version Package

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs Student Version 2.0 Package

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text and Checklists Package

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills - Text & Mosby's Nursing Skills CD-ROMs Student Version 2.0 Package

Nursing Skills Online for Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (Access Code)