– BY ANNE GRIFFIN PERRY, PATRICIA A. POTTER, WENDY OSTENDORF, AND
NANCY LAPLANTE
PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780323751537
PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780323708630
TABLE OF CONTENT
UNIT 1: SUPPORTING THE PATIENT THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. Using Evidence in Nursing Practice
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
4. Documentation and Informatics
UNIT 2: VITAL SIGNS AND PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
5. Vital Signs
6. Health Assessment
UNIT 3: SPECIAL PROCEDURES
7. Specimen Collection
8. Diagnostic Procedures
UNIT 4: INFECTION CONTROL
9. Medical Asepsis
10. Sterile Technique
UNIT 5: ACTIVITY AND MOBILITY
11. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM)
12. Exercise and Mobility
13. Support Surfaces and Special Beds
,UNIT 6: SAFETY AND COMFORT
14. Patient Safety
15. Disaster Preparedness
16. Pain Management
17. End-of-Life Care
UNIT 7: HYGIENE
18. Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
19. Care of the Eye and Ear
UNIT 8: MEDICATIONS
20. Safe Medication Preparation
21. Nonparenteral Medications
22. Parenteral Medications
UNIT 9: OXYGENATION
23. Oxygen Therapy
24. Performing Chest Physiotherapy
25. Airway Management
26. Cardiac Care
27. Closed Chest Drainage Systems
28. Emergency Measures for Life Support
UNIT 10: FLUID BALANCE
29. Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
30. Blood Therapy
UNIT 11: NUTRITION
31. Oral Nutrition
32. Enteral Nutrition
33. Parenteral Nutrition
, UNIT 12: ELIMINATION
34. Urinary Elimination
35. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
36. Ostomy Care
UNIT 13: CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
37. Preoperative and Postoperative Care
38. Intraoperative Care
UNIT 14: DRESSINGS AND WOUND CARE
39. Wound Care and Irrigations
40. Impaired Skin Integrity Prevention and Care
41. Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
UNIT 15: HOME CARE
42. Home Care Safety
43. Home Care Teaching