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Clinical Nursing Practices

Guidelines for Evidence-Based Practice

  • 5th Edition - April 5, 2007
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Elizabeth Jamieson, Janice M. McCall, Lesley A. Whyte
  • Language: English

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a well-known text that provides guidelines for over 40 common nursing… Read more

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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a well-known text that provides guidelines for over 40 common nursing procedures carried out by carers in a variety of settings. The development of competence in these practices is one of the most important aspects of pre-registration programmes, and this is one of the few UK-based texts that takes an educational approach to these practices as opposed to a purely procedure-driven approach. As in previous editions, the emphasis is on a holistic approach with the recognition that each patient is a unique individual. Each procedure contains rationale and information for patient education in addition to step by step guidance.

Key features

  • Skills explained step by step to facilitate learning
  • The comprehensive range of procedures including advanced practices will give readers confidence when they begin clinical work
  • Relevance to hospital and community settings makes it applicable to a wide audience
  • The rationale sections link to the evidence-base thereby ensuring best practice

Readership

Pre-registration nursing students

Table of contents

1 Frameworks for Practice

2 Administration of medicines

3 Blood Glucose Monitoring

4 Blood Pressure

5 Blood Transfusion

6 Body Temperature

7 Bone Marrow Aspiration

8 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

9 Care of the Deceased Person

10 Catheterisation: Urinary

11 Central Venous Pressure

12 Chest Drainage: Underwater Seal

13 Eardrops: Instillation of

14 Ear Syringing

15 Enema

16 Exercises: Active and Passive

17 Eye Care

18 Gastric Aspiration

19 Infection Control

20 Intrapleural Aspiration

21 Intravenous Therapy

22 Isolation Nursing

23 Lumbar Puncture

24 Mouth Care

25 Moving and Handling

26 Nebuliser Therapy

27 Neurological Examination

28 Nutrition

29 Oxygen Therapy

30 Paracentesis: Abdominal

31 Personal hygiene

32 Preoperative Nursing Care

33 Postoperative Nursing Care

34 Pulse/ Radial Pulses

35 Rectal Examination

36 Respiration

37 Skin Care

38 Specimen Collection

39 Stoma Care

40 Suppositories

41 Toileting

42 Tracheostomy Care

43 Transfer of Patients Between Care Settings

44 Unconscious Patient

45 Urine Testing

46 Vaginal Examination

47 Vaginal Ring Pessary Insertion

48 Venepuncture

49 Wound Care
Index

Review quotes

“Written to guide pre-registration students towards clinical competence, this book combines educational outcomes with sound advice and guidance. It successfully links objectives, policy directives and latest evidence base to a range of underlying procedures.”

Professor of Nursing, University of Brighton
Nursing Standard. July 18 :: Vol 21 no 45 :: 2007

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 5, 2007
  • Language: English

About the editors

EJ

Elizabeth Jamieson

Affiliations and expertise
Educational Projects Manager, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Directorate, UK

JM

Janice M. McCall

Affiliations and expertise
Former lecturer, Department of Nursing and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK

LW

Lesley A. Whyte

Affiliations and expertise
Programme Director, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Directorate, UK