Potter & Perry’s Pocket Guide 80+ nursing skills with step-by-step instructions

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Potter & Perry’s Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures, is a concise, pocket-sized study too, having 80+ nursing skills with step-by-step instructions with full-color photos and rationales to explain specific techniques. Evidence-based practice information to practice safely and effectively.

Put essential nursing skills & procedures at your fingertips! Based on Potter & Perry's bestselling textbook Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, this pocket guideprovides quick access to 83 key nursing skills in a convenient, AtoZ format. Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why and how to use specific techniques, and also suggest nursing interventions for potential complications. The app is an ideal companion during clinical rotations. Reflecting the latest in evidence-based practice, this study tool and clinical reference helps you perform core nursing skills safely and effectively.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

- NEW! Skills are added and all skills throughout are updated to match the latest evidence-based practice, guidelines, and standards-ensuring safe, effective performance of skills.

KEY FEATURES

- Authoritative content is based on and matches Perry,Potter,Ostendorf & Laplante’s Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition, making this book ideal as a quick, handy skills reference for information in the core text.

- AtoZ organization of skills makes it easy to find information quickly, with each skill beginning on a new page.

- Clear, step-by-step instructions include the purpose for performing each skill, guidelines to help in delegating tasks to assistive personnel, lists of required equipment, and full-color photographs and drawings.

- Concise two-column format for skills includes rationales for each step, providing the ""what"" and the ""why"" for performing the steps of each skill.

- Unexpected Outcomes / Related Interventions provide troubleshooting information for common problems that may develop when performing a skill and also recommend appropriate actions.

- Safety Alerts within the skills highlight important information for patient safety and effective performance of the skill.

- Special Considerations address teaching, home care settings, and pediatric and geriatric patients, describing the risks or accommodations needed when caring for patients in these populations.

- Gloving logo within the skills steps identifies circumstances in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed before proceeding to the next step of the skill.

- Documentation guidelines provide bulleted lists of what should be reported and recorded in the patient records.

Content licensed from printed ISBN 10: 0323870767 & ISBN 13: 9780323870764

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Author(s): Patricia A. Potter RN PhD FAAN, Anne G. Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences Company