E-Book | Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Infection Control
• Chapter 2. Patient Assessment
• Chapter 3. Safe Patient Handling, Positioning, and Transfers
• Chapter 4. Wound Care
• Chapter 5. Oxygen Therapy
• Chapter 6. Non-Parenteral Medication Administration
• Chapter 7. Parenteral Medication Administration
• Chapter 8. Intravenous Therapy
• Chapter 9. Blood Glucose Monitoring
• Chapter 10. Tubes and Attachments

About the Book

The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All 88 checklists are also summarized, and hyperlinked to the original checklist, in the appendix.

About the Contributors

Authors

Glynda Rees Doyle teaches at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, British Columbia. She completed her MSN at the University of British Columbia with a focus on education and health informatics, and her BSN at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Glynda has many years of national and international clinical experience in critical care units in South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Her teaching background has focused on clinical education, problem-based learning, clinical techniques, and pharmacology.