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This edition offers new up-to-date content and improved features, in addition to complete coverage of more than 200 nursing skills, and a nursing process framework for a logical and consistent pres...
This edition offers new up-to-date content and improved features, in addition to complete coverage of more than 200 nursing skills, and a nursing process framework for a logical and consistent presentation.
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- Creator
- Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter
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- Language
- English
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- Seventh edition
- St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby/Elsevier, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 1276 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780323052894, 0323052894
- OCLC
- ocn305152275
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Supporting the client through the health care system. Using evidence in nursing practice / Patricia A. Potter ; Admitting, transfer, and discharge / Patricia A. Stockert ; Communication / Jackie Raybuck Saleeby ; Reporting and recording / Wendy Ostendorf -- Vital signs and physical assessment. Vital signs / Susan Jane Fetzer ; Health assessment / Elaine K. Neel -- Infection control. Medical asepsis / Ruth Curchoe ; Sterile technique / Ruth Curthoe [sic] -- Activity and mobility. Safe patient handling, transfer, and positioning / Rita Wunderlich ; Exercise and ambulation / Rita Wunderlich ; Orthopedic measures / Wanda Cleveland Dubuisson ; Support surfaces and special beds / Nancy Tomaselli -- Safety and comfort. Safety / Patricia A. Potter ; Disaster preparedness / Barbara A. Caton ; Pain assessment and basic comfort measures / Cathy Flasar ; Palliative care / Valerie Yancy -- Hygiene. Personal hygiene and bedmaking / Sylvia K. Baird ; Pressure ulcer care / Janice C. Colwell ; Care of eye and ear prostheses / Anne Griffin Perry -- Medications. Safe medication preparation / Patricia A. Potter ; Oral and topical medications / Julie S. Snyder ; Parenteral medications / Oxygenation. Oxygen therapy / Anne Griffin Perry ; Performing chest physiotherapy / Anne Griffin Perry ; Airway management / Kelly Jo Cone ; Closed chest drainage / Anne Griffin Perry ; Emergency measures for life support / Nelda K. Martin -- Fluid balance. Intravenous and vascular access therapy / Wendy Ostendorf ; Blood transfusions / Jeanette S. Adams -- Nutrition. Oral nutrition / Patricia A. Potter ; Enteral nutrition / Lynne M. Murphy ; Parenteral nutrition / Patricia A. Potter -- Elimination. Urinary elimination / Terry L. Wood ; Bowel elimination / Lori Klingman ; Ostomy care / Jane Fellows -- Care of the surgical client. Preoperative and postoperative care / Rhonda Yancey ; Intraoperative care / Kelly Schwartz -- Dressings and wound care. Wound care and irrigations / Janice C. Colwell ; Dressings, bandages, and binders / Kim Campbell Oliveri ; Warm and cold therapy / Mary Jane Ruhland -- Home care. Home care safety / Nancy Laplante ; Home care teaching / Amy Hall -- Special procedures. Specimen collection / Aurelie Chinn ; Diagnostic procedures / Anne Griffin Perry
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- Nursing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Nursing Care -- handbooks.
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- Clinical Medicine -- handbooks.
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