Care Skills for Nurses / Edition 1

by Claire Boyd

Overview

Survive clinical skills training with this essential guide for all student nurses.

Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Care Skills for Nurses is an easy-to-read, quick-reference guide to all the key care skills you need to know – boosting your confidence and competence both in the clinical skills lab and on your clinical placements.

Special features:

• Developed by students, for students
• Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
• Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
• Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations
• Available in a range of digital formats

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118657386
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/31/2013
Series:	Student Survival Skills
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Claire Boyd is a Practice Development Trainer at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.

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Table of Contents

PREFACE vii

INTRODUCTION ix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

1 CARE AND COMPASSION IN NURSING 1

2 BASIC INFECTION CONTROL AND ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE 7

3 PERFORMING PERSONAL CARE 23

4 CONTINENCE CARE 35

5 PRESSURE ULCER CARE 49

6 PATIENT SAFETY 63

7 STOMA CARE 81

8 PERI-OPERATIVE CARE 93

9 ANAPHYLAXIS 105

10 ECG RECORDING 125

11 NUTRITION AND HYDRATION CARE 139

12 WOUND CARE 153

ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 167

APPENDIX 1: THE COMPONENTS OF MEDICAL WORDS AND TERMS 175

APPENDIX 2: WEIGHT CONVERSION CHARTS 189

INDEX 191

Editorial Reviews

All in all I think these books are great for students and newly qualified nurses and I think that Care Skills would probably be extremely useful for HCAs and APs too.”  (A Nurse’s Notes, 30 January 2014)

“All in all, a really handy book to have that you can refer back to at any stage of your course to help you out with any aspect of drug administration.”  (The Student Nurse, 1 January 2014)

“Receiving this book just before starting my first placement has been particularly helpful, and it has, as it promised to do, increased my confidence and competence in clinical practice. The fact that it provides advice based on student-nurse knowledge and reflects NMC standards assures me that the information given is appropriate but essential and detailed. It’ll be a great help to glance over at any stage of the course and will be a much-loved book of mine, I’m sure!.”  (Nursepraylove, 23 January 2014)

 

 

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