Boyd Care Skills for Nurses

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-65736-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Student Survival Skills

Survive clinical skills training with this essential guide forall student nurses.
Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses,Care Skills for Nurses is an easy-to-read, quick-referenceguide to all the key care skills you need to know - boostingyour confidence and competence both in the clinical skills lab andon your clinical placements.
Special features:
* Developed by students, for students
* Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
* Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration educationand the Essential Skills Clusters
* Examples and questions based on real life nursing andhealthcare situations
* Available in a range of digital formats

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Claire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
1 CARE AND COMPASSION IN NURSING 1
2 BASIC INFECTION CONTROL AND ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE 7
3 PERFORMING PERSONAL CARE 23
4 CONTINENCE CARE 35
5 PRESSURE ULCER CARE 49
6 PATIENT SAFETY 63
7 STOMA CARE 81
8 PERI-OPERATIVE CARE 93
9 ANAPHYLAXIS 105
10 ECG RECORDING 125
11 NUTRITION AND HYDRATION CARE 139
12 WOUND CARE 153
ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 167
APPENDIX 1: THE COMPONENTS OF MEDICAL WORDS AND TERMS 175
APPENDIX 2: WEIGHT CONVERSION CHARTS 189
INDEX 191

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Boyd is a Practice Development Trainer at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.