Perry, Anne Griffin creator Potter, Patricia A. Ostendorf, Wendy text handbook mou Maryland heights, Missouri Mosby Elsevier 2014 2007 8th ed. monographic eng

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viii, 616 p. ; 28 cm. Contents: Using evidence in practice(no checklists in this chapter) -- Admitting, transfer and discharge -- Communication -- Documentation and informatics -- Vital signs -- Health assessment -- Medical asepsis -- Sterile technique -- Safe patient handling, transfer and positioning -- Exercise and ambulation -- Orthopedic measures -- Support surfaces and special beds -- Safety and quality improvement -- Disaster preparedness -- Pain assessment and basic comfort measures -- Palliative care -- Personal hygiene and bed making -- Pressure ulcer care -- Care of the eye and ear -- Safe medicine preparation(no checklists in this chapter) -- Oral and topical medications -- Parenteral medications -- Oxygen therapy -- Performing chest physiotherapy -- Airway management -- Closed chest drainage systems -- Emergency measures for life support -- Intravenous and vascular access therapy -- Blood transfusions -- Oral nutrition -- Enteral nutrition -- Parental nutrition -- Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination and gastric intubation -- Ostomy care -- Preoperative and postoperative care -- intraoperative care -- Wound care and irrigations -- Dressings, bandages and binders -- Therapeutic use of heat and cold -- Home care safety -- Home care teaching -- Specimen collection -- Diagnostic procedures -- Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy Ostendorf. Nursing Handbooks, manuals, etc RT51.P36 9780323088985 070612 20231031111830.0 14887903