Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide + Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide
Pearson
978-1-4886-5790-0 (ISBN)
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Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide and Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide
As a support text, Reid-Searl’s Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide assists students in the safe administration of medications in clinical settings. Reid-Searl’s Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings..
This quick-reference guide is not rivalled by anything else in the market. As a support text, Reid-Searl’s Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide assists students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings.
Whether used individually across students’ education and into early practice, or as a tool to complement a comprehensive text such as Berman, Skills in Clinical Nursing, Clinical Survival Guide students to deliver competent person-centred care in professional practice.
Kerry Reid-Searl is currently a Professor of Innovation and Simulation in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Tasmania. Kerry has been involved in nursing education for more than 30 years and over this time she has remained clinically current. Her research interests include patient safety, simulation, paediatrics and wound care. Professor Trudy Dwyer has extensive learning and teaching expertise in both undergraduate and postgraduate research higher-degree programs. She has authored numerous books, book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles and is a principal author of the Student Survival Guide series published by Pearson Australia. Her program of research is Quality and Safety in Healthcare, with a focus on recognition and responding to clinical deterioration, nurse-led models of care, simulation and knowledge translation. Professor Lorna Moxham started nursing in 1980 and is a 3-year specialist hospital-trained psychiatric nurse. Lorna is passionate about the nursing profession, particularly mental health nursing, and is actively contributing at regional, state, national and international levels.
Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide
24-HOUR CLOCK
Protecting yourself and the patient
Standard precautions
Additional precautions
Hand hygiene
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Body fluids exposure
Moving patients safely
Falls prevention
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention
Signs of stroke
MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
Five rights and more
Tips in preventing medication errors
Safety tips with oral medications
Safety tips with injections
Medication administration and student nurses
Abbreviations used in medication administration
Checks for medications and intravenous fluids at shift changeover
Medication orders
Metric system and symbols
Drug calculations/formulas
Drug name endings and related information
Drugs and antidotes
OXYGEN CONCENTRATION DELIVERY FLUID BALANCE
Measurements useful for fluid balance charts
Tips with fluid balance charts
Classification of urine output
Types of IV fluids
Drip rates
Intravenous site checks
Body weight method for calculating daily maintenance fluids
VITAL SIGNS
Vital signs: Normal ranges
Early warning systems
QUICK HEAD-TO-TOE ASSESSMENT PAIN ASSESSMENT
Common sites of referred pain from various body organs
LANDMARKS TO IDENTIFY ABDOMINAL AREAS
The nine abdominal regions
The four abdominal quadrants
BLOOD VALUES
NORMAL VALUES IN A URINALYSIS
MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
RESUSCITATION
Cardiac rhythms
Recognition of deterioration
CPR
Basic life support flow chart
Paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest flow chart
Adult cardiorespiratory arrest flow chart
Choking flow chart
WOUND CARE
Factors that inhibit healing
Wound types
Phases of wound healing
Wound assessment
Pressure injuries
Stages of pressure injuries
Pressure injury risk assessment tools
Pressure injury prevention
Wound dressings
Some wound-care products
Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (ABPI)
Skin tears
NURSING PROCESS DOCUMENTATION
Practice guidelines
Writing with SOAPIE
CLINICAL HANDOVER
ISBAR
Tips for verbal shift-to-shift handovers for students
CHECKLIST TO BE COMPLETED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SHIFT
USEFUL WEBSITES
GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide
INTRODUCTION
Maths revisited
Mathematical symbols
Order of operations
Number fact grids
Time
Hindu Arabic and Roman numerals
Medication safety
Factor, decimal and percentage conversions
Numbered figures/tables
The base system
The decimal point
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 86 x 121 mm |
| Gewicht | 116 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4886-5790-4 / 1488657904 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4886-5790-0 / 9781488657900 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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