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Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills and Procedures - E-Book
Anne Griffin Perry | Patricia A. Potter
(2017)
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Abstract
Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures, 9th Edition, is a concise, pocket-sized study tool and clinical reference based on the best-selling textbook Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 9th Edition! This spiral-bound presents 85 key nursing skills in a convenient, A-to-Z format. Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why and how to use specific techniques to help you troubleshoot potential problems and take appropriate actions to address them. With the latest in evidence-based practice this essential guide is a great tool to help you safely and effectively perform core nursing skills.
- Clear, two-column format shows you how to perform skills, with rationales for each step explaining the reason behind the practice and the benefit to patients.
- Alphabetical organization of skills makes it easy to find information quickly, with each skill beginning on a new page.
- A convenient pocket size and spiral binding allow the book to fit easily into your coat pocket and to stay open on the page you want.
- Safety alerts highlight important information for patient safety and effective performance of skills.
- Special Considerations address teaching, the home care setting, and care modifications for pediatric and geriatric patients.
- Documentation guidelines include a bulleted list of what should be reported and recorded in the patient records.
- Unexpected outcomes and related interventions help you to troubleshoot potential problems and take appropriate actions to address them.
- NEW! Additional nursing skills cover Obtaining a 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Applying a Cardiac Monitor to address these vital elements of cardiac care.
- NEW! Up-to-date content is based on the most recent edition of Perry & Potter’s Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, the bestselling nursing skills text.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front Cover | cover | ||
Inside Front Cover | ifc1 | ||
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures | i | ||
Copyright Page | ii | ||
Preface | iii | ||
Features of This Edition | iii | ||
Table Of Contents | v | ||
A | 1 | ||
Skill 1 Acapella Device | 1 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 1 | ||
Equipment | 1 | ||
Implementation | 2 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 3 | ||
Skill 2 Aquathermia and Heating Pads | 4 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 4 | ||
Equipment | 4 | ||
Implementation | 5 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 6 | ||
Skill 3 Aspiration Precautions | 8 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 8 | ||
Equipment | 9 | ||
Implementation | 10 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 13 | ||
Skill 4 Assistive Device Ambulation (Use of Crutches, Cane, and Walker) | 15 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 15 | ||
Equipment | 15 | ||
Implementation | 16 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 28 | ||
Skill 5 Automated External Defibrillator | 30 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 30 | ||
Equipment | 30 | ||
Implementation | 30 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 34 | ||
B | 36 | ||
Skill 6 Bladder Volume Measurement | 36 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 36 | ||
Equipment | 36 | ||
Implementation | 36 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 38 | ||
Skill 7 Blood Administration | 39 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 39 | ||
Equipment | 39 | ||
Optional Equipment | 40 | ||
Implementation | 40 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 47 | ||
Skill 8 Blood Pressure by Auscultation: Upper Extremities, Lower Extremities, Palpation | 49 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 49 | ||
Equipment | 49 | ||
Implementation | 50 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 58 | ||
Skill 9 Blood Glucose Testing | 60 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 60 | ||
Equipment | 60 | ||
Implementation | 60 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 64 | ||
Skill 10 Blood Pressure | 66 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 66 | ||
Equipment | 66 | ||
Implementation | 66 | ||
C | 71 | ||
Skill 11 Cardiac Monitor | 71 | ||
Delegation and Collaboration | 71 | ||
Equipment | 71 | ||
Implementation | 72 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 74 | ||
Special Considerations | 75 | ||
Pediatric | 75 | ||
Skill 12 Central Venous Access Device Care | 76 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 77 | ||
Equipment | 78 | ||
Site Care and Dressing Change | 78 | ||
Blood Sampling | 78 | ||
Changing the Injection Cap | 78 | ||
Discontinuation of a Nontunneled Catheter or PICC | 79 | ||
Implementation | 79 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 90 | ||
Skill 13 Chest Tube Care | 93 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 93 | ||
Equipment | 93 | ||
Implementation | 97 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 108 | ||
Skill 14 Cold Applications | 110 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 110 | ||
Equipment | 110 | ||
All Compresses, Bags, and Packs | 110 | ||
Cold Compress | 110 | ||
Ice Bag or Gel Pack | 111 | ||
Electrically Controlled Cooling Device | 111 | ||
Implementation | 111 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 114 | ||
Skill 15 Condom Catheter | 116 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 116 | ||
Equipment | 116 | ||
Implementation | 116 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 119 | ||
Skill 16 Continuous Passive Motion Machine | 121 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 121 | ||
Equipment | 121 | ||
Implementation | 121 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 123 | ||
Skill 17 Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion | 125 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 125 | ||
Equipment | 125 | ||
Initiation of CSQI Therapy | 125 | ||
Discontinuing CSQI | 126 | ||
Implementation | 126 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 130 | ||
D | 132 | ||
Skill 18 Dressings | 132 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 132 | ||
Equipment | 132 | ||
Implementation | 133 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 140 | ||
Skill 19 Dressings | 142 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 143 | ||
Equipment | 143 | ||
Dressing Set (Optional) | 143 | ||
Implementation | 143 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 148 | ||
Skill 20 Dressings | 150 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 150 | ||
Equipment | 150 | ||
Implementation | 150 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 153 | ||
E | 155 | ||
Skill 21 Ear Drop Administration | 155 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 155 | ||
Equipment | 155 | ||
Implementation | 155 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 157 | ||
Skill 22 Ear Irrigations | 159 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 159 | ||
Equipment | 159 | ||
Implementation | 159 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 162 | ||
Skill 23 Electrocardiogram | 163 | ||
Delegation and Collaboration | 163 | ||
Equipment | 163 | ||
Implementation | 164 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 168 | ||
Skill 24 Enemas | 169 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 169 | ||
Equipment | 169 | ||
Enema Bag Administration | 169 | ||
Prepackaged Enema | 170 | ||
Implementation | 170 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 177 | ||
Skill 25 Enteral Nutrition via a Gastrostomy or Jejunostomy Tube | 178 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 178 | ||
Equipment | 180 | ||
Implementation | 180 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 184 | ||
Skill 26 Enteral Nutrition via a Nasoenteric Feeding Tube | 187 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 187 | ||
Equipment | 188 | ||
Implementation | 188 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 193 | ||
Skill 27 Epidural Analgesia | 196 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 197 | ||
Equipment | 198 | ||
Implementation | 198 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 201 | ||
Skill 28 Eye Irrigation | 204 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 204 | ||
Equipment | 204 | ||
Implementation | 204 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 207 | ||
Skill 29 Eye Medications | 209 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 209 | ||
Equipment | 209 | ||
Eyedrops/Ointment | 209 | ||
Implementation | 210 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 217 | ||
F | 219 | ||
Skill 30 Fall Prevention in a Health Care Facility | 219 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 219 | ||
Equipment | 219 | ||
Implementation | 220 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 226 | ||
Skill 31 Fecal Impaction | 228 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 228 | ||
Equipment | 228 | ||
Implementation | 228 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 231 | ||
H | 233 | ||
Skill 32 Hypothermia and Hyperthermia Blankets | 233 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 233 | ||
Equipment | 234 | ||
Implementation | 234 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 236 | ||
I | 238 | ||
Skill 33 Using Incentive Spirometry | 238 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 238 | ||
Equipment | 238 | ||
Implementation | 238 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 239 | ||
Skill 34 Intradermal Injections | 241 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 241 | ||
Equipment | 241 | ||
Implementation | 241 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 246 | ||
Skill 35 Intramuscular Injections | 248 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 251 | ||
Equipment | 251 | ||
Implementation | 252 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 257 | ||
Skill 36 Intravenous Medications | 259 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 259 | ||
Equipment | 259 | ||
Piggyback or Mini-Infusion Pump | 259 | ||
Volume-Control Administration Set | 260 | ||
Implementation | 260 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 268 | ||
Skill 37 Intravenous Medications | 270 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 270 | ||
Equipment | 271 | ||
Implementation | 271 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 278 | ||
Skill 38 Isolation Precautions | 280 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 280 | ||
Equipment | 283 | ||
Implementation | 283 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 292 | ||
M | 293 | ||
Skill 39 Mechanical Lifts | 293 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 293 | ||
Equipment | 293 | ||
Implementation | 293 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 298 | ||
Skill 40 Metered-Dose Inhalers | 300 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 300 | ||
Equipment | 300 | ||
Implementation | 300 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 307 | ||
Skill 41 Moist Heat (Compress and Sitz Bath) | 309 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 309 | ||
Equipment | 310 | ||
All Moist Heat Applications | 310 | ||
Implementation | 310 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 315 | ||
Skill 42 Mouth Care | 316 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 316 | ||
Equipment | 316 | ||
Implementation | 317 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 319 | ||
N | 321 | ||
Skill 43 Nail and Foot Care | 321 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 321 | ||
Equipment | 321 | ||
Implementation | 321 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 325 | ||
Skill 44 Nasoenteral Tube | 326 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 326 | ||
Equipment | 326 | ||
Insertion | 326 | ||
Implementation | 327 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 337 | ||
Skill 45 Nasogastric Tube for Gastric Decompression | 338 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 338 | ||
Equipment | 338 | ||
Implementation | 339 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 343 | ||
Skill 46 Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy | 345 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 345 | ||
Equipment | 346 | ||
Implementation | 346 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 353 | ||
O | 354 | ||
Skill 47 Oral Medications | 354 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 354 | ||
Equipment | 354 | ||
Implementation | 354 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 362 | ||
Skill 48 Oral Medications | 364 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 364 | ||
Equipment | 364 | ||
Implementation | 365 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 370 | ||
Skill 49 Ostomy Care (Pouching) | 372 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 372 | ||
Equipment | 372 | ||
Implementation | 373 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 377 | ||
Skill 50 Oxygen Therapy | 379 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 379 | ||
Equipment | 380 | ||
Implementation | 380 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 384 | ||
P | 386 | ||
Skill 51 Parenteral Medication Preparation | 386 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 386 | ||
Equipment | 386 | ||
Medication in an Ampule | 386 | ||
Medication in a Vial | 386 | ||
Both | 387 | ||
Implementation | 387 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 397 | ||
Skill 52 Parenteral Medications | 399 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 399 | ||
Equipment | 399 | ||
Implementation | 400 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 406 | ||
Skill 53 Patient-Controlled Analgesia | 408 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 408 | ||
Equipment | 408 | ||
Implementation | 409 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 411 | ||
Skill 54 Peripheral Intravenous Care | 414 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 414 | ||
Equipment | 414 | ||
Changing IV Dressing | 414 | ||
Discontinuing Peripheral Intravenous Access | 415 | ||
Implementation | 415 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 420 | ||
Skill 55 Peripheral Intravenous Care | 421 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 422 | ||
Equipment | 422 | ||
Regulating IV Flow Rate | 422 | ||
Changing IV Solutions | 423 | ||
Changing IV Tubing | 423 | ||
Continuous IV Infusion | 423 | ||
Intermittent Extension Set | 423 | ||
Implementation | 423 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 430 | ||
Skill 56 Peripheral Intravenous Insertion | 432 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 432 | ||
Equipment | 432 | ||
Implementation | 433 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 450 | ||
Skill 57 Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Care | 455 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 455 | ||
Equipment | 455 | ||
Site Care and Dressing Change | 455 | ||
Blood Sampling | 456 | ||
Implementation | 456 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 462 | ||
Skill 58 Preoperative Teaching | 465 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 465 | ||
Equipment | 465 | ||
Implementation | 465 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 477 | ||
Skill 59 Pressure Bandages (Applying) | 479 | ||
Delegation and Collaboration | 479 | ||
Equipment | 479 | ||
Implementation | 480 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 483 | ||
Skill 60 Pressure Injury Risk Assessment | 484 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 484 | ||
Equipment | 484 | ||
Implementation | 485 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 494 | ||
Skill 61 Pressure Injury Treatment | 496 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 496 | ||
Equipment | 496 | ||
Implementation | 497 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 505 | ||
Skill 62 Pulse Oximetry | 506 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 506 | ||
Equipment | 506 | ||
Implementation | 506 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 510 | ||
R | 512 | ||
Skill 63 Rectal Suppository Insertion | 512 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 512 | ||
Equipment | 512 | ||
Implementation | 513 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 517 | ||
Skill 64 Respiration Assessment | 518 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 518 | ||
Equipment | 518 | ||
Implementation | 518 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 522 | ||
Skill 65 Restraint Application | 524 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 524 | ||
Equipment | 524 | ||
Implementation | 525 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 530 | ||
Skill 66 Restraint-Free Environment | 532 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 532 | ||
Equipment | 533 | ||
Implementation | 533 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 536 | ||
S | 538 | ||
Skill 67 Seizure Precautions | 538 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 538 | ||
Equipment | 538 | ||
Implementation | 539 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 544 | ||
Skill 68 Sequential Compression Device and Elastic Stockings | 546 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 546 | ||
Equipment | 547 | ||
Implementation | 547 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 552 | ||
Skill 69 Specialty Beds | 555 | ||
Placing a Patient on a Special Bed | 555 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 555 | ||
Equipment | 556 | ||
Implementation | 556 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 560 | ||
Skill 70 Sterile Gloving | 562 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 562 | ||
Equipment | 562 | ||
Implementation | 562 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 570 | ||
Skill 71 Sterile Technique | 571 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 571 | ||
Equipment | 571 | ||
Implementation | 572 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 577 | ||
Skill 72 Subcutaneous Injections | 578 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 579 | ||
Equipment | 579 | ||
Implementation | 580 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 585 | ||
Skill 73 Suctioning | 587 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 587 | ||
Equipment | 588 | ||
Implementation | 588 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 591 | ||
Skill 74 Suctioning | 592 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 592 | ||
Equipment | 592 | ||
Implementation | 593 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 606 | ||
Skill 75 Suprapubic Catheter Care | 608 | ||
Delegation and Collaboration | 608 | ||
Equipment | 608 | ||
Implementation | 608 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 611 | ||
Skill 76 Suture and Staple Removal | 613 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 613 | ||
Equipment | 613 | ||
Implementation | 613 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 619 | ||
T | 620 | ||
Skill 77 Topical Skin Applications | 620 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 620 | ||
Equipment | 620 | ||
Implementation | 620 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 629 | ||
Skill 78 Tracheostomy Care | 630 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 630 | ||
Equipment | 630 | ||
Implementation | 631 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 639 | ||
U | 642 | ||
Skill 79 Urinary Catheter Insertion | 642 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 642 | ||
Equipment | 642 | ||
Implementation | 643 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 656 | ||
Skill 80 Urinary Catheter Care and Removal | 658 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 658 | ||
Equipment | 658 | ||
Catheter Care | 658 | ||
Removing a Catheter | 659 | ||
Implementation | 659 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 665 | ||
Skill 81 Urinary Catheter Irrigation | 667 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 667 | ||
Equipment | 667 | ||
Closed Intermittent Irrigation | 667 | ||
Closed Continuous Irrigation | 668 | ||
Implementation | 668 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 672 | ||
Skill 82 Urinary Diversion | 674 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 674 | ||
Equipment | 674 | ||
Implementation | 676 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 678 | ||
V | 680 | ||
Skill 83 Vaginal Instillations | 680 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 680 | ||
Equipment | 680 | ||
Implementation | 680 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 686 | ||
Skill 84 Venipuncture | 687 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 687 | ||
Equipment | 688 | ||
All Procedures | 688 | ||
Venipuncture With Syringe | 688 | ||
Venipuncture With Vacutainer | 688 | ||
Blood Cultures | 688 | ||
Implementation | 688 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 698 | ||
W | 699 | ||
Skill 85 Managing Wound Drainage Evacuation | 699 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 699 | ||
Equipment | 699 | ||
Implementation | 701 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 703 | ||
Skill 86 Wound Irrigation | 705 | ||
Delegation Considerations | 705 | ||
Equipment | 705 | ||
Implementation | 705 | ||
Recording and Reporting | 710 | ||
Appendix | 711 | ||
Overview of CDC Hand Hygiene Guidelines | 711 | ||
Guidelines in the Care of All Patients | 711 | ||
Methods for Decontaminating Hands | 712 | ||
Guidelines for Surgical Hand Antisepsis | 712 | ||
General Recommendations for Hand Hygiene | 712 | ||
Bibliography | 714 | ||
Index | 740 | ||
A | 740 | ||
B | 743 | ||
C | 745 | ||
D | 750 | ||
E | 752 | ||
F | 755 | ||
G | 757 | ||
H | 758 | ||
I | 760 | ||
J | 764 | ||
K | 764 | ||
L | 764 | ||
M | 765 | ||
N | 768 | ||
O | 771 | ||
P | 773 | ||
R | 777 | ||
S | 778 | ||
T | 783 | ||
U | 784 | ||
V | 785 | ||
W | 786 | ||
X | 788 | ||
Y | 788 | ||
Z | 788 | ||
Inside Back Cover | ibc1 |