Basic Nursing : A Critical Thinking Approach

Potter, Patricia A.

Mosby

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.

Perry, Anne Griffin

Elkin, Martha Keene

Perry RN EdD FAAN, Anne Griffin

Elkin RN MSN IBCLC, Martha Keene

Nursing

The new fifth edition of this popular resource retains its comprehensive coverage, number of skills, and a two-column format with rationales for each step. This new edition emphasizes evidence-based practice and features delegation principles, new related interventions for unexpected outcomes, long-term care and home careconsiderations, and new procedural guidelines boxes that present basic skills in a streamlined format. In addition, new expanded skills include using small volume nebulizers, applying pneumanic compression devices, placing a client on a rotokinetic bed, administering continuous subcutaneous medications, and irrigating a small-bore feeding tube.
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<li>Includes a FREE MERLIN website at www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Perry/skills/</li>
<li>Spanish version of 4th edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-342-9</li>
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Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

Perry, Anne G.

This new breed of workbook contains an extraordinary CD-ROM featuring a virtual hospital setting with five highly individual patients. Users can access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records, assess them, monitor daily changes when nurses take their vital signs, perform a variety of tests, formulate nursng diagnoses, and plan interventions. Each workbook lesson has a reading assignment from Potter &amp; Perry's 'FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSNG, 5TH EDITION, as well as activities that involve observing and interacting with the patients in the virtual hospital. The result is a uniquely "hands-on' way to master essential nursing knowledge.

Virtual Clinical Excursions for Fundamentals in Nursing

Potter, Patricia

Kelly,Michael

Tashiro, Jay Shiro

Long, Gina

Sullins, Ellen

This popular reference provides useful guidelines for performing physical examinations and health assessments in any type of clinical setting. The logical organization makes information easy to locate, whether performing a complete physical exam or focusing on a specific body system. A three-column format lists areas assessed, normal findings, and variations from normal, providing all key information. Spanish version of 3rd edition also available, ISBN: 84-8086-149-5

Mosby's Pocket Guide to Health Assessment

Weilitz, Pamela Becker

This popular pocket guide is a practical, portable reference for students and practitioners performing basic skills in any clinical setting. Grouped according to specialty area, nearly 100 commonly performed procedures are presented in a clear, step-by-step format that includes the purpose, equipment list, and rationales for each step. · Skills presented in a clear, 2-column format with rationales for each step. · Concise, consistent format for each skill. · Nursing Process framework for skills is consistent with other nursing core texts and provides a logical flow. · Standard Protocols summarizes essential steps required before, during, and after every nursing skill. * New skills on Assessing for Orthostatic Hypotension, Applying Sequential Compression Stockings, Using Mechanical Lifts, Charting Client-Related Information, and Completing a Change of Shift Report. * Delegation Considerations at the beginning of each skill detail the nurse's responsibilities when delegating specific skills to assistive personnel. * Cultural and Spiritual Considerations follow appropriate skills. * Client Responses Requiring Immediate Action identify potentially dangerous responses and provide appropriate nursing actions. * Gloving logo identifies circumstances when the use of clean gloves is recommended. * Standard Protocols highlights essential steps required for every nursing skill and eliminates repetition. Spanish version of 4th edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-391-7

Pocket Guide to Basic Skills and Procedures (Nursing Pocket Guides)

Peterson, Veronica

A multi-floor, virtual hospital, VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center contains 14 patient rooms with five floors ― a Well Child Clinic, a Pediatrics Floor, a Surgery Department, an Intensive Care Unit, and a Medical-Surgical Telemetry Floor. These patients are included in VCE 2.0: Canyon View Regional Medical Center: · Darlene Martin Ms. Martin, age 49, was admitted with uterine leiomyomata, irregular periods, and endometrial hyperplasia. She opts for a total abdominal hysterectomy. · James Franklin Mr. Franklin, age 67, admitted after experiencing episodic light-headedness, left arm and left leg numbness, and one episode of expressive aphasia. He undergoes a carotid endarterectomy. · James Story Mr. Story, age 42, has renal failure and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. He arrives complaining of significant weakness, nausea, and an increasingly edematous right arm. · Paul Jungerson Mr. Jungerson, age 61, complains of persistent left lower quadrant abdominal pain that has lasted for 3 days. Diagnosed with a coloanal anastomosis disruption, he undergoes a colostomy. · Elizabeth Washington Ms. Washington, age 63, is admitted following an automobile accident which fractures her hip. · Tom Handy Mr. Handy, age 62, is admitted for a right upper lobectomy with bronchoscopy for moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. · Julia Parker Ms. Parker, age 55, is admitted with indigestion and mid back pain. She suffers a myocardial infarction.
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<li>Includes a guided tutorial which shows students how to work with a patient in the virtual hospital · collect patient data from various sources (reports, charts, medication administration record, short video clips and audio clips of nurse-patient interactions) · record patient data · listen to a report and itemize a patient's problems and high-priority concerns · and sometimes administer medications.</li>
<li>Requires students to use their critical thinking skills to set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition.</li>
<li>Encourages active learning and provides opportunities to identify information to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; optimize use of available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve core computing skills.</li>
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<li>A new clock icon appears under each lesson, offering an estimate on how much time it will take to complete.</li>
<li>A new linkage icon alerts users whenever they are about to begin an exercise that connects with previous lessons.</li>
<li>A new Table of Contents-Index matches the chapters from the textbook with patients and lessons in the workbook.</li>
</ul>A series of groundbreaking, new workbooks and CD-ROMs, Virtual Clinical Excursions bring learning to life in two different “virtual hospital settings! Each lesson in Virtual Clinical Excursions has a core textbook reading assignment with corresponding CD-ROM and workbook activities. The exercises in the workbook complement the content in the the parent text and provide a perfect environment in which students may “practice what they are learning in the text. The workbooks act as maps ― guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital. Virtual hospital visits on the CD-ROM allow students to access realistic information resources that are essential to patient care.

Virtual Clinical Excursions 2.0 to Accompany Fundamentals of Nursing

Tashiro, Jay

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Potter's Fundamentals of Nursing, 6th edition text &amp; Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing, 6th edition.

Fundamentals of Nursing - Text and Study Guide Package

Fundamentals of Nursing

STOCKERT, Patricia A.

Hall, Amy

Mosby, Inc.

Nursing Skills Online for Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing (User Guide and Access Code), 3e

Wood, Marilynn, J.

Ross-Kerr, Janet C.

Astle, Barbara J.

Duggleby, Wendy

Mosby Canada

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