Essential Nursing Care A Workbook for Clinical Practice

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ISBN: 9780470513033 | 0470513039
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Copyright: 6/8/2009

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This book provides a fundamental understanding of the essential core skills that support the development of professional competencies for practice. Highly practical and interactive in style, it explores the principles of patient safety, monitoring and assessment, respiratory care, eating and drinking, elimination, drug administration and first aid. Core themes running throughout each chapter are: Communication, Privacy & Dignity, and health and Safety. This is an essential resource for all undergraduate nursing students.

Contributor biographies	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Principles of patient safety	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The seven steps to patient safety	p. 6
Writing an incident report	p. 9
Practical safety concerns	p. 10
Infection control	p. 10
Manual handling	p. 18
Chapter summary	p. 22
Answers to Activities	p. 23
Principles of medicines management	p. 31
Introduction	p. 32
Prescribing and dispensing-an overview	p. 34
The administration of medicines-the role of the student	p. 35
What is a medicine?	p. 36
The law	p. 37
The control and regulation of drugs	p. 37
Controlled drugs	p. 39
Mathematics and the administration of medicines	p. 41
Principles for underpinning the practice of administration of medicines	p. 48
Checking the prescription	p. 50
Administration of medicines	p. 50
Drug administration errors	p. 52
Covert administration of medicines	p. 53
Routes of administration	p. 53
Nurse prescribing	p. 64
Chapter summary	p. 65
Answers to Activities	p. 66
Principles of monitoring and assessment	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Assessment of vital signs	p. 80
Early warning scores (EWS)	p. 91
Principles of assessment of care	p. 91
Principles of planning of care	p. 93
Principles of implementation of care	p. 96
Principles of evaluation of care	p. 97
Factors affecting vital signs	p. 98
Deviations from the norm	p. 100
Documentation	p. 101
Chapter summary	p. 103
Answers to Activities	p. 104
Principles of respiratory care	p. 117
Introduction	p. 118
Self-assessment	p. 118
Assessment of respiration	p. 119
Patient assessment	p. 120
Communication	p. 130
Peak expiratory flow	p. 131
Benefits of peak flow measurements in asthmatics	p. 134
Oxygen saturation rate-pulse oximetry	p. 134
Oxygen therapy	p. 136
Mask selection	p. 138
Equipment	p. 140
Risks of oxygen treatment	p. 141
Fire hazards	p. 141
Carbon dioxide retainers	p. 142
Chapter summary	p. 144
Answers to Activities	p. 145
Principles of nutritional care	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Anatomy and physiology associated with eating and drinking	p. 166
Importance of fluid intake	p. 178
Assessment of eating and drinking needs	p. 179
Practicalities of assisting patients with their eating and drinking needs	p. 186
Chapter summary	p. 191
Answers to Activities	p. 192
Principles of elimination	p. 219
Introduction	p. 220
Facing your fears	p. 220
Factors affecting elimination	p. 222
Toileting amenities	p. 223
Privacy and dignity	p. 227
Health and safety issues	p. 228
Communication	p. 229
Bowel elimination	p. 231
Constipation	p. 235
Assessment of stool	p. 236
Diarrhoea	p. 239
Urinary needs	p. 241
Urine infection	p. 244
Urinalysis	p. 246
Chapter summary	p. 250
Answers to Activities	p. 251
Principles of skin care	p. 267
Introduction	p. 267
Anatomy of the skin	p. 269
Functions of the skin	p. 273
Healthy skin	p. 276
Assessing the skin	p. 278
Skin care	p. 281
Common skin problems	p. 283
Warning!	p. 287
Chapter summary	p. 291
Answers to Activities	p. 292
Principles of first aid	p. 303
Introduction	p. 303
The first aid kit	p. 305
Your priorities in a first aid situation	p. 306
The primary survey	p. 307
In-hospital resuscitation	p. 311
The recovery position	p. 312
Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation	p. 314
Choking	p. 318
Shock	p. 321
Fractures	p. 323
Types of fractures	p. 323
Chapter summary	p. 326
Answers to Activities	p. 328
Index	p. 337
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