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NURSING

Fundamentals & Skills

North American Edition / Softbound / ISBN: 978-1-4963-8488-1 / ($115.99 / £N/A / €N/A) World International Edition / Softbound / ISBN: 978-1-4963-9978-6 / ($115.99 / £N/A / €N/A) World ex US, Canada, Aus, NZ, PR, US VI Approx. 1,132 pp. / October 2018 ▶ ▶ 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. ▶ ▶ 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 skill steps. ▶ ▶ Delegation Considerations assist in developing the critical decision-making skills needed to transfer responsibility for the performance of an activity to another individual. ▶ ▶ Photo Atlas Approach : With nearly 1,000 photographs, this book offers a step-by-step visual guide to performing each skill. Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills A Nursing Process Approach 5th Edition By Pamela Lynn, Ed.D, MSN, RN , Assistant Professor, Gwynedd Mercy University, Frances M. Maguire School of Nursing and Health Professions, Gwynedd Valley, PA DESCRIPTION Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach aims to help nursing students and graduate nurses incorporate cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills into safe and effective patient care. With nearly 1,000 photographs, it provides students a step-by-step photo atlas of each skill, all within context of the full nursing process. This book can serve as a resource throughout the curriculum as well as once the graduate nurse has entered the workforce. To teach critical thinking and develop skill competence, Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills : ▶ ▶ Highlights the nursing process ▶ ▶ Emphasizes unexpected situations that the nurse may encounter, along with related interventions for how to respond to these unexpected situations ▶ ▶ Draws attention to critical actions within skills ▶ ▶ Illustrates specific actions within a skill through the use of nearly 1,000 four-color photographs and illustrations ▶ ▶ Highlights available best practice guidelines and/or research-based evidence to support the skills as available ▶ ▶ References appropriate case study or studies included at the end of the book, emphasizing which case studies utilize and enhance the content of each chapter ▶ ▶ Provides additional skills not addressed in Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, 9th Edition. Emphasizing the basic principles of patient care, Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills can be used with any fundamentals of nursing text or as a standalone resource. However, this book is specifically designed to accompany Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care , 9th Edition, to provide complete consistency and a seamless learning experience. FEATURES ▶ ▶ NEW! artwork and photographs throughout the book. ▶ ▶ NEW! Watch & Learn videos. ▶ ▶ Focusing on Patient Care : Meet the patients in the chapter-opening case scenarios in Units I and II to put nursing skills in context. Then reflect on their care in the Clinical Reasoning section at the ends of the chapters. ▶ ▶ Integrated Case Study Connection : Although skills textbooks present skills in a linear fashion, in practice, many skills are performed in combination for patients with complex needs. Unit III, Integrated Case Studies, provides case studies to challenge the student to think critically and prioritize care. At the end of each chapter in Units I and II, students are referred to related case studies in Unit III to further integrate their understanding of the concepts. ▶ ▶ Fundamentals Review : Although the focus of this book is teaching how to perform skills, the “Fundamentals Review” provides need-to-know content students must understand before attempting a skill. ▶ ▶ A Nursing Process Framework integrates related nursing responsibilities for each of the five steps.

Note to Booksellers: The previous edition published in October 2014 (ISBN: 978-1-4511-9271-1).

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