This start-to-finish guide provides more than 400 nursing procedures--frombasic to advance. This reference outlines every procedure, lists equipment,details each step, and includes rationales and cautions to ensure patientsafety and positive outcomes.
Concise, clear content targets key information needed to perform nursing procedures safely and accurately at the bedside. Tips, alerts, checklists,illustrations, and tables provide clarity and quick access to key proceduralinformation.
Organized alphabetically for easy accessibility, the book includes basic andadvanced procedures on key topics, including infection control, specimencollection, physical treatments, drug administration, IV therapy, and hemodynamicmonitoring, as well as procedures related to body systems suchas chest tubes, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intra-abdominal pressuremonitoring.