Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses -

Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

Step by Step

Catherine Delves-Yates (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2015
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4739-1398-1 (ISBN)
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This pocket-sized book is a quick guide to the basic clinical skills nursing students will need out on placements. The step-by-step approach helps students to quickly find the information they need to perform the skills and to revise for clinical skills exams.
This little book is an ideal clinical skills reference for nursing students and junior health care practitioners. Its easy to navigate design and step-by-step approach allows for information to be accessed quickly to help students review skills while on placement and prepare for their OSCE exams.


- Essential equipment tick lists helps ensure students know what they need to perform clinical skills.


- Patient considerations promote strategies to provide the best possible care.


- All fields of nursing are covered with tips throughout to help students support every patient group.


- Introduces different approaches to performing clinical skills in community and acute settings to help students and new practitioners feel confident performing the skill in any situation.

Catherine Delves-Yates is an experienced nurse and a Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.  She started her nursing career as a student at the Nightingale School of Nursing, London and has worked clinically in adult and paediatric critical care in the UK and has taught and nursed in America, Africa and Nepal.  Her passion is to ensure all nurses have the knowledge, skills and professionalism to deliver effective compassionate care to each of their patients.  Catherine is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Buea and the Higher Institute of Applied Medical Sciences, Cameroon and an international advisor to the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal.  Currently she is researching whether nursing students’ views of health and illness alter during their pre-registration nursing programme.

Common Abbreviations - Wendy Wright and Fiona Everett
Useful Prefixes and Suffixes - Wendy Wright and Fiona Everett
Infection Prevention and Control - Rose Gallagher
Clinical Measurement - Valerie Foley
Pain Management - Ann Kettyle
Aseptic Technique and Specimen Collection - Rose Gallagher
Skin Integrity - Irene Anderson and Catherine Delves-Yates
Safer Handling of People - Diane Steele
First Aid - Chris Mulryan
Medicines Administration - Carol Hall and Catherine Delves-Yates
Assisting Patients with their Nutritional Needs - Kate Goodhand and Jane Ewan
Assisting Patients with their Elimination Needs - Mairead Collie, David J. Hunter and Valerie Foley
Assisting Patients with their Hygiene Needs - Catherine Delves-Yates
Last Offices - Jean Shapcott
Commonly Used Medication and Side Effects - Wendy Wright and Fiona Everett
Normal Laboratory Values - Wendy Wright and Fiona Everett

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 110 x 174 mm
Gewicht 170 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-4739-1398-5 / 1473913985
ISBN-13 978-1-4739-1398-1 / 9781473913981
Zustand Neuware
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