Nursing Procedures

Nursing Procedures
ISBN-10
1582552819
ISBN-13
9781582552811
Category
Medical
Pages
834
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Springhouse Publishing Company
Author
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Description

The newly revised Fourth Edition of this popular and widely used reference is a start-to-finish guide for nearly 400 basic and advanced nursing procedures. It 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. The user-friendly format includes checklists, quick-scanning tables, logos that flag essential information, and more than 700 illustrations and photographs of equipment and techniques. This edition features a brand-new chapter on psychiatric nursing procedures and new entries on prone positioning, surgical site verification, ST segment monitoring, swallowing and aspiration precautions, and bispectral index monitoring (BIS).

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