Clinical skills manual for maternal & child nursing care / Ruth C. Bindler [and others].
"This colorful skills atlas serves as a portable, quick reference for step-by-step maternal-newborn and pediatric nursing skills. The third edition of this valuable manual guides you through 150 skills using full-color photographs and rationales, including 30 maternal-newborn and more than 100...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Summary: | "This colorful skills atlas serves as a portable, quick reference for step-by-step maternal-newborn and pediatric nursing skills. The third edition of this valuable manual guides you through 150 skills using full-color photographs and rationales, including 30 maternal-newborn and more than 100 pediatric skills. Special features include: chapters on physical assessment, special pain management techniques, cardiorespiratory care, administration of medications (including intravenous access), and other information helpful to nurses in the clinical setting; a short description of each skill, followed by the preparation that the nurse needs, equipment and supplies required for the unique skill, and the procedure itself, presented step by step; margin boxes and tables highlighting important safety issues, growth and development considerations, teaching and home care facts for families, and clinical tips; and appendices containing growth grids, blood pressure levels, and calculation of body surface area for medication administration."--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Clinical skills manual for maternal & child nursing / Ruth C. Bindler ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. 2007. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 236 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0135097231 9780135097236 |