Contents: Admitting, transfer and discharge -- Communication -- Reporting and recording -- Safety -- Disaster preparedness -- Comfort -- End of life care/palliative care -- Medical asepsis -- Sterile technique -- Body mechanics, transfer and positioning -- Exercise and ambulation -- Orthopedic measures -- Support surfaces and special beds -- Personal hygiene and bed making -- Pressure ulcer care -- Care of the eye and ear prostheses -- Vital signs -- Health history and physical examination -- Preparing for medication administration -- Oral and topical medications -- Parenteral medications -- Oxygen therapy -- Performing chest physiotherapy -- Airway management -- Closed chest drainage systems -- Emergency measures for life support -- Intravenous therapy -- Blood transfusions -- Oral nutrition -- Enteral nutrition -- Parenteral nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination and gastric intubation -- Ostomy care -- Preoperative and postoperative care -- Intraoperative care -- Wound care and irrigations -- Dressings -- Binders and bandages -- Hot and cold therapy -- Home care safety -- Home care teaching -- Specimen collection -- Diagnostic procedures --