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. Instill...