Taylor''s Clinical Nursing Skills
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
This resource provides instant guidance for performing over 180 skills. Each skill includes equipment lists, assessment parameters, and nursing actions with rationales. Special considerations for pediatric and geriatric clients allow the user to adapt each skill to meet the client''s needs. Unexpected outcomes and associated interventions are included, to prepare the user to react appropriately. This product provides instant access to the know-how needed to provide and safe and effective nursing care.
It aims to help nursing students or graduate nurses incorporate cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills into safe and effective patient care. This resource meets the needs of novice to advanced nurses.
Key Features
Fundamental review section has been added to the end of each section in units I and II. This includes boxes, tables or figures that summarize important concepts that should be understood before performing a skill.
Hand hygiene icons alert you to this crucial step that is the best way to prevent the spread of microorganisms.
Patient Identification icons alert you to this crucial step ensuring the right patient receives the intervention and helping prevent errors.
Integrated Case Studeis provide Basic, Intermediate, and Advance Patient Scenarios that require students to think critically.
Illustrate specific actions within a skill through the use of more than 1000 four-color photographs and illustrations.
Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each section link back to the opening case scenarios.
Documentation guidelines direct students and graduate nurses in accurate documentation of the skill and their findings.
Emphasize unexpected situations that the nurse may encounter, along with related interventions for how to respond to these unexpected situations.
Skill variations provide clear, start-to-finish instructions for variations in equipment or technique
Section on Actions Basic to Nursing Care introduces the foundational skills used by nurses: measuring vital signs, assessing health, promoting safety, maintaining asepsis, administering medication, and caring for surgical patients.
Infant, Child, and Older Adult Considerations as well as Home Health and Special Considerations appear throughout to explain the varying needs of patients across the life-span and in various settings.
New interactive flowcharts: Now, complex algorithms and protocols are transformed from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools. See how this innovative feature can quickly and easily walk you through even the most intricate decision models. View flowchart demo >
Built-in Medical Calculators: Provide instant access from within topics to FLACC Behavioral Scale, Fall Risk category, Glasgow Coma Scale, IV Drop Rate Formula and Temperature!
Full Images: Images that bring the content to life.
Table Viewer: View tables easily and conveniently by rows and columns on the small screen. View Table Viewer demo >
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Supported operating systems:
Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone, Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
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Taylor''s Clinical Nursing Skills
