Synopsis
Learn step-by-step procedural instructions to ensure safe and accurate technique! Intravenous infusion therapy is a key nursing responsibility. Practitioners are charged with safe patient care through preparation, set-up, administration, and follow-up care related to IV medication administration. Excellent technique, thorough knowledge, and precision in execution are all needed to ensure safe practice. Intravenous Infusion Therapy Skills Checklists is a must-have reference for any professional who is performing procedures and wants to become a safe practitioner. These checklists will allow you to judge your competence in performing 37 different IV therapy procedures. Skills range from Preparing the Infusion Site to Starting an IV, to Flushing the CVC and Transfusion of Blood Components.
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Reviewer:Josie M. Bowman, DSN, RN(East Carolina University )
Description:This book presents 37 concisely written skills checklists for intravenous infusion therapy. Each checklist contains three columns for the reader to use to indicate which skills are completed successfully, not completed, and notes.
Purpose:The purpose is to help prepare safe practitioners who are responsible for starting and maintaining intravenous therapy. The skills checklists meet the author's objectives in a clear, concise way. The lists do not include extra, unnecessary steps and it's easy to visualize each step while reading.
Audience:Although written for practitioners identified as nurses, the book is also appropriate for other providers who initiate IV therapy. The checklists can be used by nursing students, new graduate nurses, and practicing nurses as a reference. The author is an infusion therapy consultant.
Features:The skills range from applying a tourniquet, peripheral IV care, central lines, and peripherally inserted central catheters to vascular access ports. The various checklists range from complex, with many steps, to very simple. Each checklist presents the right amount of information and steps. as well as a brief overview of the skill. If more detail is needed, a medical-surgical textbook would be useful and necessary companion.
Assessment:I recommend the use of these checklists to evaluate a student's abilities to initiate, monitor, and manage intravenous therapy. Compared to other books, these checklists are clear, user friendly, and written at a level that practitioners can use.