Essential Nursing Skills

Description

The new edition of Allergy, by Drs. Stephen Holgate, Martin Church, David Broide, and Fernando Martinez, uses an enhanced clinical focus to provide the clear, accessible guidance you need to treat allergy patients. A more consistent format throughout features new differential diagnosis and treatment algorithms, updated therapeutic drug information in each chapter, and additional coverage of pediatric allergies. With current discussions of asthma, allergens, pollutants, drug treatment, and more, as well as access to the full text and illustrations online at www.expertconsult.com, this comprehensive resource is ideal for any non-specialist who treats patients with allergies.

KEY FEATURES

• Attractive design - easy to use
• Skills explained step by step
• Comprehensive list of skills covers all that students will encounter in practice
• Points for Practice sections encourage readers to reflect and learn
• Further reading and references point to the evidence and knowledge base for each skill.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Full-colour photographs illustrate many of the procedures
• Full colour is used throughout to help navigate procedures
• Section listing normal values of commonly used blood tests
• Skills to assess deteriorating patients and care for patients undergoing surgery
• Reflects changes in nursing and professional national guidelines

Table of Contents

1. Infection prevention and control
1. Standard precautions
2. Aseptic non touch technique (ANTT)
3. Hand washing
4. Use of masks
5. Use of aprons
6. Use of gloves (non-sterile)
7. Disposal of waste and care of equipment
8. Taking a swab
9. Isolation (barrier nursing)
2. Observation and monitoring
1. Temperature recording - oral & axillary
2. Electronic thermometer - oral & axillary
3. Temperature recording: Tympanic membrane thermometer
4. Cooling the patient
5. Pulse recording
6. Assessment of breathing and counting respirations
7. Blood pressure recording
8. Cardiac monitoring
9. Recording a 12-lead ECG
10. Assessment of level of consciousness
11. Weighing patients
12. Measuring waist circumference
13. Measuring height
14. Care of the patient having a seizure
15. Neurovascular assessment
16. Blood glucose monitoring
17. Pain assessment
18. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) and epidural analgesia
19. Assessment of the deteriorating patient
20. Measuring capilliary refill time
3. Resuscitation
1. Assessment of collapsed person and recovery position
2. Basic life support with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
3. Ward-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation
4. Automated external defibrillator (AED)
4. Vascular access and intravenous therapy
1. Venepuncture
2. Intravenous cannulation
3. Preparing an infusion
4. Changing an infusion bag
5. Regulation of flow rate
6. Care of peripheral cannula site
7. Visual infusion phlebitis (VIP) score
8. Removal of peripheral cannula
9. Care of arterial line
10. Intravenous pumps and syringe drivers
11. Central venous catheters: care of the site
12. Central venous pressure measurement
13. Removal of central venous catheters
14. Care of long term central venous catheters
5. Blood transfusion
1. Blood transfusion
2. Care and management of a transfusion
6. Nutrition and hydration
1. Nutritional assessment
2. Assisting adults with eating and drinking
3. Nausea and vomiting
4. Subcutaneous fluids (hyperdermoclysis)
5. Nasogastric tube insertion
6. Nasogastric feeding
7. Care of gastrostomy site
8. Feeding via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)/radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG)
7. Medicines management
1. Storage of medicines
2. Self-administration of medicines
3. Drug calculations
4. Principles of administration of medicines
5. Oral route
6. Nasogastric route
7. Controlled drugs
8. Subcutaneous injection
9. Intramuscular injection
10. Intravenous drug administration
11. Instillation of nose drops/ nasal spray
12. Instillation of ear drops
13. Instillation of eye drops or ointment
14. Topical application
15. Vaginal preparations
16. Administration of suppositories
17. Respiratory route - metered dose inhaler
18. Variable dose intravenous infusions
8. Elimination
1. Observation of faeces
2. Obtaining a specimen of faeces
3. Administration of an enema
4. Assisting with a bedpan
5. Assisting with a commode
6. Assisting with a urinal
7. Monitoring fluid balance
8. Observation of urine
9. Application of a penile sheath
10. Urinalysis
11. Midstream specimen of urine
12. Catheter specimen of urine
13. 24-hour urine collection
14. Early morning urine specimen
15. Female catheterisation
16. Male catheterisation
17. Urethral catheter care
18. Care of suprapubic catheter
19. Emptying a catheter bag
20. Continuous bladder irrigation
21. Bladder washout/lavage
22. Catheter removal
23. Stoma care
24. Changing a stoma bag
9. Peri-operative Care
1. Wound assessment
2. Aseptic dressing technique
3. Removal of skin closures: sutures/staples
4. Wound drainage
5. Changing a vacuum drainage bottle
6. Removal of wound drain
7. Topical negative pressure wound therapy
8. Peri-operative care
10. Patient hygiene
1. Assisting with a bath or shower
2. Bed bath
3. Oral assessment
4. Mouth care for a dependent patient
5. Facial shave
6. Washing hair in bed
7. Eye care
8. Caring for fingernails and toenails
9. Last offices
11. Respiratory care
1. Assessment of breathing and counting respirations
2. Positioning the breathless patient
3. Face masks and nasal cannulae
4. Humidified oxygen
5. Use of nebuliser
6. Peak expiratory flow rate
7. Pulse oximetry (oxygen saturation)
8. Observation of sputum
9. Obtaining a sputum specimen
10. Oral suctioning
11. Care of a tracheostomy
12. Tracheal suctioning
13. Insertion and management of chest drains
14. Chest drain removal
15. Non-invasive ventilation
12. Reduced mobility
1. Principles of moving and handling
2. Risk assessment of pressure ulcers
3. Prevention of pressure ulcers
4. Complications of immobility
5. Fitting anti embolism stockings
6. Falls prevention

AUTHOR INFORMATION

By Maggie Nicol, BSc(Hons) MSc PGDipEd RGN, Director, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, School of Community & Health Sciences, City University, London, UK ; Carol Bavin, RGN, RM, Dipn(Lond), RCNT, Lecturer, St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery, City University, London, UK; Patricia Cronin, RGN, BSc(Hons), MSc(Nursing), DipN(Lond), Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Karen Rawlings-Anderson, RGN, BA(Hons), MSc(Nursing), DipNEd, Senior Lecturer, St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery, City University, London, UK; Elaine Cole, BSc, MSc, PgDipEd, RGN, Senior Lecturer Emergency and Trauma Care, City University, London, UK and Janet Hunter