Overview
Focusing on need-to-know information, this fully revised full-color edition equips nurses with the skills they will need to survive and thrive in today's changing health care world. Using a straight-forward approach, organized around the nursing process, the second edition of Delmar's Fundamental & Advanced Nursing Skills, 2E provides a great resource for any nurse from the hospital to the home. NEW TO EDITION: Accompanying video series demonstrates over 100 skills contained in the book in concise, 5 minute presentations. These video segments carefully show the step-by-step actions for users and reinforce learning. New skills on topics such as male genitalia examination, maintaining skeletal traction and skeletal traction pin care provide additional clarity on vital topics. Delegation Considerations indicate where a nurse must be careful about delegating or supervising a task with an unlicensed assistive aide. Special Considerations highlight those situations where a potentially critically situation may emerge. This helps nurses identify and head off crises.
Textbook format reviews 200+ skills; population-based varia- tions incl.; common errors, critical thinking; case studies.
Synopsis
This highly illustrated text comprehensively covers over 200 nursing skills. Following the five-step nursing process, it is written in a clear, concise, easy-to-follow format to help promote competence in basic and complex nursing skills. Paying careful attention to gender, culture, and age-sensitive issues, the text includes real world situations in various health care environments to provide students with the clinical experiences they may encounter in their career. This, along with the critical thinking feature, helps students fine-tune their critical thinking skills and apply skill knowledge. Client teaching, documentation, equipment, and common errors are strongly emphasized to alert students to important issues and common pitfalls.
(skills, procedures, nursing fundamentals, clinical, practice, medical-surgical, med-surg, techniques)
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Reviewer:Carole Ann Kenner, DNS, MSN, BSN(Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences)
Description:This book presents basic and advanced nursing skills in a way to guide the nurse through the skill. Each skill is presented from a nursing process perspective including the evaluation of outcomes. The previous edition of this book was published in 2000.
Purpose:The purpose is to present concepts and actions that a novice or expert nurse might take in performing common clinical skills. Rationale for actions are included. These are worthy objectives and more than met.
Audience:The book's audience is the novice and advanced or expert nurse. It can be used by those in other disciplines who may need to perform these skills. The author is a leading authority in the field of healthcare skills and approaches the teaching of these skills from a very practical perspective.
Features:The first sections present the most common physical assessment and basic skills. Comfort care and safety are included. The last chapter consists of special procedures that generally require nursing assistance such as biopsy or arteriography. Each chapter presents how to prepare for a procedure/skill and what to do afterwards and special considerations are included. Each skill is taught in a stepwise fashion including the rationale, equipment, and time involved. Client education considerations are a strength in each section and client and nurse safety are stressed throughout. Real photos help the student or nurse recognize how skills should be done in real life situations. Videos accompany this book that cover half of the 203 skills which can be used to supplement the student's learning in a learning resource lab. The only shortcomings are the bulky size of the book, which does not make for easy use, and the lack of end of life care skills.
Assessment:This book is very easy to follow and appeals to the reader through the use of colorful text boxes and photographs. It is up to date and practice oriented. It definitely stands out when compared to Smith et al.'s Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills, 6th edition (Prentice Hall Health, 2004), as it is much more comprehensive. This second edition places more emphasis on time and special populations considerations, two issues that are important in today's healthcare arena.
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Reviewer: Carole Ann Kenner, PhD, MSN, BSN(Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences)Description: This book presents basic and advanced nursing skills in a way to guide the nurse through the skill. Each skill is presented from a nursing process perspective including the evaluation of outcomes. The previous edition of this book was published in 2000.
Purpose: The purpose is to present concepts and actions that a novice or expert nurse might take in performing common clinical skills. Rationale for actions are included. These are worthy objectives and more than met.
Audience: The book's audience is the novice and advanced or expert nurse. It can be used by those in other disciplines who may need to perform these skills. The author is a leading authority in the field of healthcare skills and approaches the teaching of these skills from a very practical perspective.
Features: The first sections present the most common physical assessment and basic skills. Comfort care and safety are included. The last chapter consists of special procedures that generally require nursing assistance such as biopsy or arteriography. Each chapter presents how to prepare for a procedure/skill and what to do afterwards and special considerations are included. Each skill is taught in a stepwise fashion including the rationale, equipment, and time involved. Client education considerations are a strength in each section and client and nurse safety are stressed throughout. Real photos help the student or nurse recognize how skills should be done in real life situations. Videos accompany this book that cover half of the 203 skills which can be used to supplement the student's learning in a learning resource lab. The only shortcomings are the bulky size of the book, which does not make for easy use, and the lack of end of life care skills.
Assessment: This book is very easy to follow and appeals to the reader through the use of colorful text boxes and photographs. It is up to date and practice oriented. It definitely stands out when compared to Smith et al.'s Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills, 6th edition (Prentice Hall Health, 2004), as it is much more comprehensive. This second edition places more emphasis on time and special populations considerations, two issues that are important in today's healthcare arena.