Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 2nd Edition
Author :
Shelley Cobbett
Date of Publication: 11/2023
Perry & Potter’s Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 2nd Edition helps equip you with the skills you need to successfully care for patients within the Canadian social and institutional context. Offering comprehensive coverage of mo ...view more
Perry & Potter’s Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 2nd Edition helps equip you with the skills you need to successfully care for patients within the Canadian social and institutional context. Offering comprehensive coverage of more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills, this textbook features nearly 1,000 full-colour photographs and illustrations, a nursing process framework, step-by-step instructions with rationales, and a focus on critical thinking and evidence-informed practice. New to this edition are unit openers, safety alerts, documentation examples, COVID-19 precautions and protocols, and case studies and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX®.
Perry & Potter’s Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 2nd Edition helps equip you with the skills you need to successfully care for patients within the Canadian social and institutional context. Offering comprehensive coverage of more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills, this textbook features nearly 1,000 full-colour photographs and illustrations, a nursing process framework, step-by-step instructions with rationales, and a focus on critical thinking and evidence-informed practice. New to this edition are unit openers, safety alerts, documentation examples, COVID-19 precautions and protocols, and case studies and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX®.
Key Features
Includes the most-up-to-date Canadian statistics, references and resources, protocols, documentation standards, delegation rules, Canadian nursing best practice guidelines, metric measurements, and more!
All topics, skills, and sample documentation conform to Canadian provincial and territorial scopes of practice and Canadian standards in nursing practice.
NEW!Unit openers explain the importance of clinical judgement in performing the skills covered in the unit safely and correctly. These openers also demonstrate the impact of environmental factors and interdisciplinary collaboration on safe patient care.
NEW!Safety Alerts highlight the importance and need for special monitoring or intervention in some circumstances.
NEW!Documentation examples provide guidance on documentation for various aspects of nursing care.
NEW!Care in the Community: Home Management subsections in Care and Community highlight specific home care issues related to applicable skills.
NEW!COVID-19 precautions and protocols are included in relevant skills.
NEW!Hand and hygiene icon added to “hand hygiene moments” provides a quick visual prompt to this important protocol.
NEW!Case studies for theNext-Generation NCLEX®on the Evolve companion website, with accompanying questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX®, challenge you to apply critical thinking and clinical judgement, providing optimal preparation for the exam.
UNIQUE! Evidence-Informed Nursing Practice chapter covers the entire process of conducting research, including collecting, evaluating, and applying evidence from published research.
UNIQUE! Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions sections alert you to what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
Coverage includes the Canadian concepts of person-centred care, evidence-informed practice, interprofessional collaboration and delegation, and care in the community.
Emphasis on cultural assessment/considerations and caring for Indigenous and vulnerable populations.
Comprehensive coverage includes more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills.
Streamlined theory content in each chapter features a quick, easy-to-read bullet format to help reduce repetition and emphasize the clinical focus of the book.
Case-based review questionsat the end of each chapter focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making to help you better prepare for the clinical setting.
Nursing process framework incorporates the areas of delegation and collaboration; reporting and recording; safety guidelines; and teaching, pediatric, geriatric, and home care considerations.
Basic skillspresented in streamlined procedural guidelines format makes it easy learn and review basic nursing skills.
Critical Decision Pointswithin skills address key safety issues or possible skill modifications for specific patient needs.
Rationales for each skill step explain why steps are performed in a specific way, including their clinical significance and benefit, and incorporate the latest research findings.
Video clip icons indicate video clips that are related to skills and procedures in the book and related lessons in Nursing Skills Online.
Online checklistsand video clips may be downloaded to mobile devices.
Author Information
Edited by Shelley Cobbett, RN, BN, GnT, MN, EdD, Assistant Professor and Nursing and BScN Site Administrator, School of Nursing – Yarmouth Campus, Dalhousie University, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Unit I: Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System 1. Evidence-Informed Nursing Practice 2. Transitions in Care 3. Communication and Collaboration 4. Documentation and Informatics Unit II: Infection Control 5. Medical Asepsis 6. Sterile Technique Unit III: Vital Signs and Physical Assessment 7. Vital Signs 8. Health Assessment Unit IV: Special Procedures 9. Specimen Collection 10. Diagnostic Procedures (e-only chapter) Unit V: Activity and Mobility 11. Safe Patient Handling, Transfer, and Positioning 12. Exercise, Mobility, and Immobilization Devices 13. Support Surfaces and Special Beds Unit VI: Safety and Comfort 14. Patient Safety 15. Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management 16. Pain Assessment and Management 17. Palliative and End-of-Life Care Unit VII: Hygiene 18. Personal Hygiene and Bed Making 19. Care of the Eye and Ear Unit VIII: Medications 20. Safe Medication Preparation 21. Nonparenteral Medications 22. Parenteral Medications Unit IX: Oxygenation 23. Airway Management 24. Performing Chest Physiotherapy 25. Oxygen Therapy 26. Cardiac Monitoring 27. Closed Chest Drainage Systems 28. Emergency Measures for Life Support Unit X: Fluid Balance 29. Vascular Access and Infusion Therapy 30. Blood Therapy Unit XI: Nutrition 31. Oral Nutrition 32. Enteral Nutrition 33. Parenteral Nutrition Unit XII: Elimination 34. Urinary Elimination and Catheterization 35. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation 36. Ostomy Care Unit XIII: Care of the Surgical Patient 37. Preoperative and Postoperative Care 38. Intraoperative Care Unit XIV: Dressings and Wound Care 39. Prevention and Care of Skin Breakdown 40. Wound Care Management and Dressings 41. Therapeutic Use of Heat and Cold Unit XV: Nursing in the Community 42. Safety in the Community Answer Key Appendix A: Common Prefixes and Suffixes Index Index of Skills and Procedural Guidelines
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