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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Clinical Skills

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Clinical Skills

2nd Edition

Ann Richards, Kerry Reid-Searl, Trudy Dwyer, Jackie Ryan, Lorna Moxham

Jun 2012, Spiralbound, 60 pages
ISBN13: 9780273763734
ISBN10: 0273763733
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Do you need accurate information fast? The ward is a busy place with little time to check facts and figures. With this pocket-sized reference book you can quickly and accurately check everything from nursing terminology to CPR procedures.

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Contents Richards

COMMON LABORATORY BLOOD TESTS

24-HOUR CLOCK

MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

Five rights and three checks

Tips in preventing medication errors

Safety tips with oral medications

Safety tips with injections

Abbreviations used in medication administration

Metric system and symbols

Drug calculations

Some common drug classes

Drug name endings and related information

Drugs utilised as antidotes

OXYGEN

FLUID BALANCE

Measurements useful for fluid balance charts

Tips with fluid balance charts

Types of IV fluids

VITAL SIGNS

QUICK HEAD-TO-TOE ASSESSMENT

PAIN ASSESSMENT

MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)

Bodily fluids exposure

RESUSCITATION

Cardiac rhythms

When to seek help

Common emergency drugs: dose and action

WOUND CARE

DOCUMENTATION

General points

Tips with verbal handovers

Nursing process

GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS

USEFUL WEBSITES

TIME MANAGEMENT GRID

OTHER THINGS TO REMEMBER

All you need to know about:

  • Blood values
  • Medication administration
  • Vital signs
  • Pain assessment
  • Medical abbreviations
  • And much more . . .

Ann Richards is a qualified nurse and an experienced university lecturer. She has published several other successful titles, including Elsevier’s best selling ‘A Nurse’s Survival Guide to the Ward’.

Expert Reviews

"A neat, tidy and very handy book for nursing students and newly qualified staff to have whilst out in the clinical environment. ... What is great about this little pocket guide is that it uses the terminology regularly used in the clinical environment but provides examples of where it may be used ... This helps to link theory to practice and aid easy identification of drug classes and what they are." - Tianna Jarrett-Williams, Nursing Student

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