Appropriate for all levels of nursing�from basic to advanced.

This best selling resource remains a comprehensive source of the essential information needed for success at all levels of nursing.

Features

• 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