Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures

This quick outline handbook should serve as a clinical support tool for students as well as practising nurses. Portable and handy, it contains step-by-step guidelines for over 200 nursing skills organized in a nursing process format, including a rationale for each skill step, nursing diagnoses and sample documentation. Chapter overviews briefly review the principles and concepts for each major skill area. Numerous illustrations and charts enhance the information. This new edition uses pictogram symbols to identify cultural considerations for each skill and to identify procedures that require body substance precautions. New skills include pulse oximetry, pneumatic compression device, continuous passive motion machine and bandage application. New information includes electronic vital sign measurement and small-bore feeding tubes.