Description
Ensure a high level of nursing expertise with this practical, quick-reference guide. This edition offers:
- NEW entries with evidence-based direction on:
- Ankle-brachial index calculation
- Biohazardous waste handling
- Cultural assessment
- Elastomeric pump use
- Hazardous drug preparation and handling
- Hazardous drug spill management
- Nasal decolonization
- Opioid withdrawal management
- Post-traumatic stress disorder assessment
- Prone positioning for the awake patient
- Sepsis emergency patient care
- Wound photography
- Colored letter tabs at the top of each page that allow quick-and-easy locating of any entry
- Full-color photos and diagrams that illustrate procedure steps with a quick-read, bulleted format that walks you through each procedure
- Practices based on clinical evidence-recent studies supporting best practices are cited
- Colorful, eye-catching special alerts:
- Nursing Alerts - Potentially dangerous actions or clinically significant findings related to a procedure
- Pediatric Alerts - Special precautions to take while treating infants, young children, and adolescents
- Elder Alerts - Elder patient special needs
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Alerts - Conditions the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have identified as events that may occur during hospitalization
- Procedures presented in a structured how-to format:
- Equipment - Types of equipment needed for procedure
- Preparation of equipment - Guidance on preparing any needed equipment for procedure
- Implementation - Step-by-step guidance for performing procedure
- Special considerations - Factors to keep in mind that can affect the procedure
- Troubleshooting - Methods for troubleshooting equipment issues, with step-by-step interventions
- Patient teaching - Helpful tips, reminders, and follow-up instructions before patient discharge
- Complications - Procedure-related complications to watch for
- Documentation - Everything needed to document the procedure fully
Book Information
ISBN 9781975178598
Author Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Format Paperback
Page Count 936
Imprint Wolters Kluwer Health
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health