Fundamentals of Nursing Clinical Skills Workbook
- 4th Edition - September 15, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Geraldine Rebeiro, Damian Wilson, Stacey Fuller
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 3 4 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 8 6 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 8 6 5 - 2
Directly aligned to the 6th edition of Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing, this Clinical skills workbook by Geraldine Rebeiro, Damian Wilson and Stacey Fuller allows Austra… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDirectly aligned to the 6th edition of Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing, this Clinical skills workbook by Geraldine Rebeiro, Damian Wilson and Stacey Fuller allows Australian and New Zealand undergraduate nursing students to apply clinical skills to the real world effectively and according to contemporary local best practice standards.
Clear instructions and reflective learning support students to work through and master 81 clinical skills featured in the Potter and Perry’s text and this Skills workbook. Detailed checklists and assessment tools enable both students and assessors to track progress.
Comprehensively updated and revised, the Fundamentals of Nursing Clinical Skills workbook 4e is an essential tool to support students to become confident and effective nurses.
- 81 updated Clinical Skills , linking applied nursing skills to real-world best practice. Each skill features:
- Overview
- A focus on therapeutic relationships and patient considerations
- Equipment checklist
- A step-by-step approach
- Critical decision points
- Competency checklist and revised rating scale
- Reflection opportunity
- Aligned to Potter and Perry’s fundamentals of nursing ANZ 6e
- Comprehensively updated to ensure currency with contemporary practice
- Extended skills to those in the core text to reflect more advanced practice
- An eBook included with all print purchases
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- The bondy rating scale
- Acknowledgements
- Authors
- Overview: Placing communication at the centre of person-centred care
- Patient handover
- References
- Overview: The vital signs: Using a primary survey approach for patient assessment
- Assessing respirations
- Measuring oxygen saturation (SpO2)
- Assessing the radial and apical pulses
- Measuring blood pressure (BP)
- Measuring body temperature
- Overview: Undertaking a focused assessment: Physical assessment of body systems
- Nursing physical assessment using a body systems framework
- Focused neurological assessment
- Focused cardiovascular assessment
- Focused respiratory assessment
- Focused gastrointestinal assessment
- Focused renal assessment
- Focused musculoskeletal assessment
- Focused skin or integumentary assessment
- Overview: Preventing and controlling infection
- Handwashing
- Preparing an aseptic field
- Surgical hand antisepsis (‘scrubbing’): Preparing for gowning and gloving
- Open gloving
- Donning a sterile gown and performing closed gloving
- References
- Overview: Optimising skin integrity and wound care
- Performing a bacterial wound swab
- Assessment, management and prevention of skin tears
- Assessment for risk of pressure injury
- Performing a wound dressing
- Overview: Ensuring medication safety
- Administering oral medications
- Administering nasal instillations
- Administering ophthalmic medications
- Administering vaginal medications
- Administering rectal suppositories
- Using metered-dose inhalers (MDIs)
- Preparing injections
- Administering injections
- Adding medications to intravenous fluid containers
- Administering medications by intravenous bolus
- Administering intravenous medications by a secondary infusion
- Administering intravenous medications by a syringe driver/mini-infuser pump
- References
- Overview: Promoting mobility
- Applying sequential compression devices (SCDS)
- Compression stockings
- Positioning patients in bed
- Transfer techniques
- Overview: Assessing and managing pain
- Focused pain assessment
- References
- Overview: Supporting oxygenation and perfusion
- Conducting a 12-lead ECG
- Continuous cardiac monitoring (CCM)
- Using a hand-held doppler ultrasound probe to assess peripheral pulses
- Suctioning
- Care of patients with chest tubes
- Applying a nasal cannula or oxygen mask
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) – basic life support (BLS)
- References
- Overview: Balancing fluid, electrolyte and acid–base status
- Assessment of fluid status
- Subcutaneous infusion (hypodermoclysis)
- Initiating a peripheral intravenous (IV) infusion
- Regulating intravenous flow rate
- Changing intravenous solution and infusion tubing
- Changing a peripheral intravenous dressing
- Care of the patient requiring a blood transfusion
- References
- Overview: Meeting nutritional needs
- Inserting a small-bore nasoenteric tube for enteral feedings
- Administering enteral feeding via nasoenteric tube
- Administering enteral feeding via gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube
- Blood glucose levels (BGLs)
- References
- Overview: Maintaining hygiene
- Bathing a patient
- Perineal care
- Menstrual hygiene
- Administering a back rub
- Performing nail and foot care
- Providing oral hygiene
- Performing mouth care for an unconscious or debilitated patient
- Caring for the patient with contact lenses
- Making an occupied bed
- Making a postoperative bed
- Overview: Managing continence: Urinary
- Bladder ultrasound
- Collecting a midstream (clean-voided) urine specimen
- Applying a sheath/condom drainage device
- Inserting a straight or indwelling catheter
- Pouching a urostomy
- Overview: Managing continence: Bowel
- Administering a prepared enema
- Pouching an ostomy
- Inserting and maintaining a nasogastric tube (for decompression)
- Overview: Working in the acute care sector
- Assessment and management of the deteriorating patient (ABCDE)
- Deep-breathing, coughing and leg exercises
- References
- Overview: Working in the mental health sector
- Mental state assessment
- Overview: Nursing informatics and digital health
- Information management in the healthcare environment
- Applying nursing informatics in practice
- Nursing informatics standards
- Nursing informatics competencies
- Nursing informatics
- References
- Overview: Extended nursing skills
- Regulating CVC/PICC intravenous flow rate
- CVC/PICC dressing change and flush
- References
- Registered Nurse Standards for Practice 2016 – Australia
- Picture credits
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: September 15, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 566
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729543439
- eBook ISBN: 9780729588645
- eBook ISBN: 9780729588652
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Geraldine Rebeiro
Affiliations and expertise
Associate National Course Coordinator - Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Business Administration, Senior Lecturer (Melbourne) School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine (Vic) ACU, MelbourneDW
Damian Wilson
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Nurse Unit Manager Emergency Department Sunshine Hospital, VictoriaSF
Stacey Fuller
Affiliations and expertise
Staff Development Educator, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia