Avoiding Common Nursing Errors
- ISBN-10
- 1605470872
- ISBN-13
- 9781605470870
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Authors
- Anthony D. Slonim, Monty Gross, Jeannie Scruggs Garber
Description
This handbook succinctly describes over 500 common errors made by nurses and offers practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. Coverage includes the entire scope of nursing practice—administration, medications, process of care, behavioral and psychiatric, cardiology, critical care, endocrine, gastroenterology and nutrition, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, preoperative, operative, and postoperative care, emergency nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric nursing. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference. Each error is described in a quick-reading one-page entry that includes a brief clinical scenario and tips on how to avoid or resolve the problem. Illustrations are included where appropriate.
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