Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques by Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter

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This market-leading text is well known for its reliable, comprehensive coverage of over 200 complete skills. Heavily illustrated, each skill follows the nursing process framework and is presented in an easy-to-follow, two-column format with rationales for each step. This edition retains such popular features as guidelines at the beginning of each chapter, delegation principles for each skill, special considerations for various age groups and care settings, and unexpected outcomes with related nursing interventions. Plus, expanded coverage of cultural and pediatric considerations, new skills, and new features make this edition better than ever!

•Comprehensive coverage of over 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills.
•Nursing process framework provides a logical, consistent presentation.
•Over 1,100 vivid, full-color photographs and drawings aid understanding.
•Rationales for each step in the skill explain why steps are performed in a specific way.
•Delegation Principles for each skill discuss the nurse's responsibilities when assigning tasks to assistive personnel.
•UNIQUE! Critical Decision Points address key information to consider when performing skills to ensure effective outcomes and promote safety.
•Skill Performance Guidelines at the beginning of each chapter provide guidelines applicable to all skills in the chapter.
•Expected outcomes identify the anticipated client response to the procedure.
•Reporting and recording guidelines in each skill include what to document and examples of how to word it.
•Considerations for client teaching, pediatric, geriatric, long-term care, and home care addressspecific needs.
•Critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter promote development of decision-making abilities.

•New skills and procedural guidelines include: communicating with the depressed client; fire, electrical, and radiation safety; local analgesic infusion pump; supporting clients and families in grief; symptom management in palliative care; care of clients with immobilization devices; selection of support surface/mattress (Procedural Guideline); eye irrigation; noninvasive automatic BP; wound vacuum assisted closure; measuring occult blood in gastric secretions; and use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED).
•A new Disaster Preparedness chapter and added coverage of code management address current practice issues.
•Pediatric variations and considerations covered in greater depth.
•Cultural Implications sections focus on providing culturally-sensitive care.
•Evidence-Based Practice Trends at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of recent research findings and implications for skills included in the chapter.
•Focus on Clinical Practice at the end of each chapter presents case scenarios and critical thinking questions that address issues involving topics that include unexpected outcomes and cultural considerations.
•Two-column format for Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions presents information in an easy-to-follow format.

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Reviewer: Mary Allen Carey, PhD (University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description: This book covers more than 220 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills, a nursing process framework that gives students a logical and consistent presentation in a two-column format with scientific rationales for steps. New skills are introduced in this edition and there is an increased focus on evidence-based practice. The book consists of 15 chapters and includes the 2002 CDC Guidelines for Hand Hygiene. The Skills Performance Checklists covers 200 basic nursing skills.
Purpose: The purpose of the textbook is to provide clinical nursing students with knowledge about critical decision points, expected and unexpected outcomes related to interventions, client teaching considerations, recording and reporting guidelines for documentation, pediatric and gerontological considerations in providing care, and home care and long-term care considerations. The purpose of the checklists are to provide evaluation tools to help students determine their level of competence at performing the skills. The worthy objectives are met.
Audience: Both the textbook and skills checklist book are written for nursing students. The authors have good reputations and are considered credible authorities. The list of contributors, clinical consultants, and reviewers in the textbook is impressive and lends credibility to the content.
Features: The textbook includes rationales explaining why skill steps are performed. Evidence-based practice is emphasized throughout and hundreds of drawings and up-close photos clearly show the student what to do. Critical decision points highlight areas for consideration for the safe and effective performance of skills. Unexpected outcomes and related interventions alert the student to possible unexpected responses and provide appropriate nursing interventions. The nursing process framework puts skills in the same context used in most other nursing books. Special considerations guide the student in incorporating teaching as clinical skills are performed as well as prepare the student to adapt skills for children, older adults, and clients in long-term care settings. Delegation considerations are discussed in terms of the student's responsibilities when assigning tasks to assistive personnel. A passcode to the EVOLVE Web site provides direct access to hundreds of Web pages keyed specifically to the content of the book. The Web links are annotated and continually updated.
Assessment: The evolution of this book demonstrates time-tested quality. The companion checklists only enhance the quality of the content and the presentation of the learning package.

Booknews

An introductory text for a first-year fundamentals or skills course. Emphasizes the fundamental knowledge and skills the nurse must possess to effectively deliver health care to clients. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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4 Stars! from Doody

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