Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Nursing Interventions & 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.

• Includes basic, intermediate, and advanced skills.
• 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.
• Skills are clustered, with similar skills covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught.
• Easy-to-follow 2-column format for skills includes rationales for key steps to help students understand why specific techniques are used.
• Nurse-Alerts highlight safety issues or critical steps in the skills
• Glove logo provides a visual reminder to apply clean gloves.
• Delegation Considerations guide nurses when assigning a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Special considerations include age-related, home-care, and long term care.
• Communication Tips provide guidelines for students on how to prepare, support, and instruct clients.
• Over a thousand full-color photographs and drawings clearly show how steps are performed.

• 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.
• New chapter on Palliative Care (Chapter 39) covers Care of the Dying Client.
• Includes new 2002 CDC Hand Hygiene guidelines.
• Documentation samples focus on how to document unexpected responses.
• Expanded Home Care and Long Term Care considerations.
• Client teaching is expanded throughout and incorporated into Communication Tips.
• Visually highlights sterile gloving step to emphasize the importance of this essential action.
• Includes new content on brushless surgical scrubbing and antimicrobial agent handwashing.
• New unit on Wound Care (Unit 6) groups wound care, pressure ulcers, dressings and therapeutic use of heat and cold.
• Surgical Wounds and Pressure Ulcers addressed in separate chapters.
• All illustrations include complete legends for quick identification.