Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills, 7/E
Sandra F. Smith
Donna J. Duell, RN,MS, Cabrillo College
Barbara Martin, University of Tulsa

ISBN-10: 0132243555
ISBN-13: 9780132243551

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 1520 pp
Published: 03/30/2007

Suggested retail price: $84.95
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Clinical Nursing Skills 7e remains a best-selling, comprehensive source of the essential information needed for success at all levels of nursing.  With more than 1200 full-colorimages illustrating over 750 new and updated skills, this book is  an invaluable tool that no nursing student or practicing nurse should be without. Exciting new features included in the 7th edition are: evidenced based nursing care; cultural/religious considerations; case studies; expanded management guidelines; and a focus on community based nursing.  Appropriate for all levels of nursing - from basic to advanced.

  • More than 1,200 full-color photographs, line drawings, charts, and tables depict step-by-step nursing procedures. These clear, specific, and up-to-date illustrations display new equipment and new procedures, as well as nurses performing basic to advanced skills.
  • Learning Objectives, Terminology–These pedagogic features include the essential information supporting the skills.
    • Assists students with learning the basic theoretical foundation for the procedures that follow pertinent to each chapter
  • Nursing Diagnoses (phrased in the latest terminology) are relevant to the chapter content and precede step-by-step procedures.
  • Rationales for specific nursing actions assists the student to understand why certain actions are performed. 
  • Clinical Alerts throughout the skills call attention to safety issues, essential information, and actions that require critical decision making. 
  • Cultural Competence features are interspersed throughout the content to remind students that cultural diversity principles play an important role when providing client care.
  • Documentation is found following each individual unit of similar skills. This section reminds students that following skill performance it is critical to document the skill, outcome, and client response.
  • The Chapter Addendum is found at the end of each chapter and includes:
    • Gerontologic Considerations, specific concepts that influence or affect care of the elderly; and Management Guidelines, as described above.
    • Critical Thinking Strategies, encourages problem solving in a clinical context and offers alternative nursing interventions for problem resolution

NEW FEATURES

  • More than 750 new and updated skills and more than 1200 full-color illustrations.
  • NEW section on Disaster Nursing has been added to the chapter on Bioterrorism. The authors have included this material to assist schools of nursing to add this important content to their curricula, with the hope that in the future, nurses will be prepared (with knowledge and skills) to participate on a professional level with a response team for any type of disaster.
  • Expanded content includes Evidence-Based Nursing Practice boxes that present specific scientific studies related to the skills protocols. This material also demonstrates how to formulate a research base for specific interventions in client care.
  • NEW Legal Alerts which assist students in recognizing legal pitfalls so that when performing nursing actions they are aware of what constitutes legal malpractice.
  • Expanded Critical Thinking is found in two places in the ninth edition.
  • Critical Thinking Strategies in the form of case studies have been expanded at the end of each chapter to assist students to apply critical thinking principles to clinical situations. The Critical Thinking Application section includes Expected Outcomes, Unexpected Outcomes, and critical Thinking Options or Alternative Nursing Actions.
  • A NEW end-of-chapter feature, NCLEX-style questions, helps students review chapter material and also prepares them to answer NCLEX® questions effectively. Answers and rationales are included in the Appendix
  • Expanded Management Guidelines complete each chapter.
    • This component includes Delegation to teach the student nurse to make critical judgments when delegating tasks within the framework of legal, safe, and appropriate parameters.
    • It also includes a section on Communication Network to assist the student to assume a management role by learning to prioritize and communicate relevant client information to members of the health team.

Smith, Duell & Martin

Clinical Nursing Skills, 7e

 

 

Chapter 1         Professional Nursing

Chapter 2         Nursing Process and Critical Thinking

Chapter 3         Managing Client Care: Documentation and Delegation

Chapter 4         Communication and Nurse-Client Relationship

Chapter 5         Admission, Transfer, and Discharge

Chapter 6         Client Education and Discharge Planning

Chapter 7         Safe Client Environment and Restraints

Chapter 8         Bathing, Bedmaking, and Maintaining Skin Integrity

Chapter 9         Personal Hygiene

Chapter 10       Vital Signs

Chapter 11       Physical Assessment

Chapter 12       Body Mechanics

Chapter 13       Exercise and Ambulation

Chapter 14       Infection Control

Chapter 15       Disaster Management - Bioterrorism

Chapter 16       Pain Management

Chapter 17       Alternative Therapies and Stress Management

Chapter 18       Medication Administration

Chapter 19       Nutritional Management and NG Intubation

Chapter 20       Specimen Collection

Chapter 21       Diagnostic Procedures

Chapter 22       Urinary Elimination

Chapter 23       Bowel Elimination

Chapter 24       Heat and Cold Therapies

Chapter 25       Wound Care and Dressings

Chapter 26       Respiratory Care

Chapter 27       Circulatory Maintenance

Chapter 28       Intravenous Therapy

Chapter 29       Central Vascular Access Devices

Chapter 30       Orthopedic Interventions

Chapter 31       Perioperative Care

Chapter 32       End-Of-Life Care

Chapter 33       Advanced Nursing Skills

Chapter 34       Community-Based Nursing

 

Appendix         Answers to Review Questions

 

Bibliography

Index

 

Clinical Nursing Skills 7e remains a best-selling, comprehensive source of the essential information needed for success at all levels of nursing. With more than 1200 full-colorimages illustrating over 750 new and updated skills, this book is  an invaluable tool that no nursing student or practicing nurse should be without. Exciting new features included in the 7th edition are: evidenced based nursing care; cultural/religious considerations; case studies; expanded management guidelines; and a focus on community based nursing.

 

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