Nursing Procedures

A start-to-finish guide for nearly 400 basic and advanced nursing procedures.

This book provides step-by-step instructions for each procedure, explains how to use and troubleshoot equipment, and presents key information on rationales, cautions, complications, patient teaching, and documentation.

• Coverage of many new procedures including prone positioning, surgical site verification, ST segment monitoring, and impaired swallowing and aspiration precautions
• New chapter on procedures for psychiatric nursing care
• Guideline compliant procedures issued by organizations such as the American Association of Blood Banks, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and Infusion Nurses Society incorporated throughout
• Numerous checklists and quick-scanning tables
• More than 700 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Springhouse

ISBN:

978-1-58-255281-1

Specialty:

• Skills & Procedures

Language:

English

Edition:

4th

Pages:

848

Publication Year:

2004