Test Bank for Clinical Nursing Skills, 8th Edition: Smith

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 013511473X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0135114735
• Author: Smith

The most complete, up-to-date and useful guide to modern clinical nursing skills available! With more than 1,200 full-color images illustrating more than 750 new and updated skills, CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS, 8/e is the definitive resource for best practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies. The authors teach through extensive case studies and critical thinking features, and thoroughly explain the rationales for each skill and technique. Strong coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious considerations, nursing management, and community based nursing is provided throughout. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model, this text also contains hundreds of NCLEX^®-style review questions. This edition adds a new chapter on neurological care; has integrated coverage of home care throughout; provides substantial new coverage of the 2010 national patient safety goals; and contains approximately 50 new skills.

Table contents:

UNIT 1: SUPPORTING THE PATIENT THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. Using Evidence in Nursing Practice
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
4. Documentation and Informatics
Unit 1 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 2: VITAL SIGNS AND PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
5. Vital Signs
6. Health Assessment
Unit 2 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 3: SPECIAL PROCEDURES
7. Specimen Collection
8. Diagnostic Procedures
Unit 3 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 4: INFECTION CONTROL
9. Medical Asepsis
10. Sterile Technique
Unit 4 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 5: ACTIVITY AND MOBILITY
11. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM)
12. Exercise and Mobility
13. Support Surfaces and Special Beds
Unit 5 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 6: SAFETY AND COMFORT
14. Patient Safety
15. Disaster Preparedness
16. Pain Management
17. End-of-Life Care
Unit 6 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 7: HYGIENE
18. Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
19. Care of the Eye and Ear
Unit 7 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 8: MEDICATIONS
20. Safe Medication Preparation
21. Nonparenteral Medications
22. Parenteral Medications
Unit 8 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 9: OXYGENATION
23. Oxygen Therapy
24. Performing Chest Physiotherapy
25. Airway Management
26. Cardiac Care
27. Closed Chest Drainage Systems
28. Emergency Measures for Life Support
Unit 9 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 10: FLUID BALANCE
29. Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
30. Blood Therapy
Unit 10 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 11:  NUTRITION
31. Oral Nutrition
32. Enteral Nutrition
33. Parenteral Nutrition
Unit 11 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 12: ELIMINATION
34. Urinary Elimination
35. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
36. Ostomy Care
Unit 12 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 13: CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
37. Preoperative and Postoperative Care
38. Intraoperative Care
Unit 13 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 14: DRESSINGS AND WOUND CARE
39. Wound Care and Irrigations
40. Impaired Skin Integrity Prevention and Care
41. Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
Unit 14 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
UNIT 15: HOME CARE
42. Home Care Safety
43. Home Care Teaching
Unit 15 Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies
Appendix A: Answers to Chapter Review Questions
Appendix B: Answers to Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-Style Unfolding Case Studies

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