A Nurse's Guide to Radiological Procedure

This book covers all radiological procedures, the need for them and the nurse's role. It uses a nursing process approach and offers a concise rationale for each action described enabling nurses to formulate individual nursing care plans from the guidelines given.

---

Although radiological procedures are carried out by radiologists in X-ray departments, nurses must have some knowledge of what treatments entail in order to answer patient's questions and follow the procedures through from preparation of the patient to subsequent aftercare. This book covers all radiological procedures, the need for them, the nurse's role, and the reasons for each step taken. It uses a nursing process approach and offers a concise rationale for each action described, enabling nurses to formulate individual nursing care plans from the guidelines given.