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Fundamentals & Skills
Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach,
Fourth Edition
Pamela Lynn, MSN, RN
978-1-4511-9271-1 • October 2014 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 1136 pp • 927 illus.
Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach
aims
to help you learn the nursing skills necessary for safe and effective
patient care. The text includes unexpected situations that you may
encounter, along with related interventions for how to respond to
these unexpected situations. With both basic and advanced skills, this
text will be an essential resource to you across the curriculum and
throughout your career.
Features
•
NEW! Delegation Considerations
assist you in developing the
critical decision-making skills needed to transfer responsibility for
the performance of an activity to another individual.
•
Step-by-Step Skills
are presented in a concise, straightforward, and
simplified two-column format facilitating competent performance
of nursing skills.
•
Unexpected Situations
highlight abnormal outcomes while
providing explanations of how to react to provide the best care.
•
Evidence for Practice
boxes present current best practice
guidelines and up-to-date research relevant to the skills.
•
A Nursing Process Framework
integrates related nursing
responsibilities for each of the five steps.
•
Skill Variations
provide clear, start-to-finish instructions for
variations in equipment or technique.
•
Documentation Guidelines
direct you in accurate documentation
of skills and findings.
•
Scientific Rationales
accompany each nursing action to promote
a deeper understanding of the basic principles supporting nursing
care.
•
Hand Hygiene icons
alert you to this crucial step that prevents the
spread of microorganisms.
•
Patient Identification icons
alert you to this crucial step ensuring
the right patient receives the intervention and helping prevent
errors.
Table of Contents
Unit I:
Actions Basic to Nursing Care
Ch. 1: Asepsis and Infection Control
Ch. 2: Vital Signs
Ch. 3: Health Assessment
Ch. 4: Safety
Ch. 5: Medication Administration
Ch. 6: Perioperative Nursing
Unit II:
Promoting Healthy
Physiologic Responses
Ch. 7: Hygiene
Ch. 8: Skin Integrity and Wound Care
Ch. 9: Activity
Ch. 10: Comfort and Pain Management
Ch. 11: Nutrition
Ch. 12: Urinary Elimination
Ch. 13: Bowel Elimination
Ch. 14: Oxygenation
Ch. 15: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base
Balance
Ch. 16: Cardiovascular Care
Ch. 17: Neurologic Care
Ch. 18: Laboratory Specimen Collection
Unit III:
Integrated Case Studies
Part 1: Basic Case Studies
Part 2: Intermediate Case Studies
Part 3: Advanced Case Studies
Appendix A:
Guidelines for
Delegation Decision Making
Skill Checklists for Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills:
A Nursing Process Approach, Fourth Edition
Pamela Lynn, MSN, RN
978-1-4511-9273-5 •October2014 •Softbound•8.375”x10.875” •424pp.