This pocket-sized book provides step-by-step instructions on how to carry out advanced clinical skills such as medicine administration, giving transfusions, catheterisation, and other key skills across both acute and community settings. It is ideal for second and third year students and has been updated for the 2018 NMC standards, including the most up-to-date evidence base for the procedures.
Each section features:
Whether you are revising, practicing, or preparing for a clinical placement, this book will become a trusted companion and daily reference that will help to develop and improve your nursing skills.
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Chapter 1: Introduction and General Considerations – Wendy Wright and Fiona Everett
Chapter 2: Basic Airway Management – Sophie Newcombe
Chapter 3: Advanced Airway Management – Kamal Dhindsa
Chapter 4: Lung Sounds – Kamal Dhindsa
Chapter 5: Oxygen Therapy – Karen Elliott
Chapter 6: Nebulisers – Karen Elliott
Chapter 6: Venepuncture – Winnie Mc Garry and Caroline Mac Callum
Chapter 7: Peripheral IV Cannulation – Winnie Mc Garry and Caroline Mac Callum
Chapter 8: Intravenous Fluids – Meghan Bateson and Lizanne Hamilton-Smith
Chapter 9: Blood Transfusion – Sally Richardson and Karen Elliott
Chapter 10: Central Venous Access Devices – Kamal Dhindsa
Chapter 11: ECG – Meghan Bateson and Lizanne Hamilton-Smith
Chapter 12: Resuscitation – Emily Marron and Sophie Newcombe
Chapter 13: Neurological Examination – Winnie Mc Garry and Caroline Mac Callum
Chapter 14: Medicines Administration – Winnie Mc Garry and Caroline Mac Callum
Chapter 15: Bowel Sounds – Winnie Mc Garry and Caroline Mac Callum
Chapter 16: Gastric Aspiration – Sue Mc Grouther and Julie Orr
Chapter 17: Enteral Feeding – Mark Molesworth and Moira Dale
Chapter 18: Removal of Sutures and Staples – Francina Hyatt
Chapter 19: Urinary Catheterisation – Fiona Lundie and Debbie Mc Craw
Chapter 20: Urinalysis Interpretation – Fiona Lundie and Debbie Mc Graw
Chapter 21: Sepsis – Lizanne Hamilton-Smith and Meghan Bateson
Over de auteur
Fiona Everett is currently a Nurse Lecturer within pre-registration and master’s level nursing programmes with teaching, co-ordination and research supervision responsibilities. Fiona has a wide range of clinical experience including adult nursing, midwifery, district nursing and research project management within primary care. She has particular interests in clinical skills, dementia care and developing contemporary, support mechanisms in nurse education. She has published in these areas in nursing journals and has disseminated her work at national and international conferences. She is also an editor and author for SAGE publications in relation to the Essentials of Nursing Practice and Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses: Step by Step. Fiona is the co-creator of “Class in a Bag’, which is a portable educational resource that enables the delivery of health promotion in a diverse range of environments to suit individual needs. (Winner of Scotland’s Dementia Awards, 2016, Best Educational Initiative)
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