Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques
by Anne G. Perry, Patricia A. Potter, Wendy R. Ostendorf, Nancy Laplante
11th Edition
Publisher: Mosby
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780443107184 |
| eText ISBN | 9780443115912 |
| Publisher | Mosby |
| Publishing Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 11th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1344 |
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 11th Edition is a clinical manual designed to support nursing students and practicing nurses in performing direct patient care tasks. Structured around a consistent nursing process framework, this manual delivers systematic guidelines for performing over 200 skills spanning basic, intermediate, and advanced care levels across hospital, community, and home environments.
The volume organizes procedural topics into distinct functional clusters. Early chapters address health assessment, vital signs measurement, medical asepsis, and personal hygiene practices. The text then advances to complex intervention areas, detailing nonparenteral and parenteral medication administration, airway management, vascular access, enteral nutrition, ostomy care, and home care safety teaching.
Step-by-step skill descriptions incorporate rationales supported by citations from current clinical literature to explain the scientific reasoning behind each procedure. Furthermore, dedicated sections covering unexpected outcomes and related interventions outline potential patient complications and specify appropriate nursing responses, assisting clinicians in adapting care to changing patient conditions.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice
Chapter 2: Communication and Collaboration
Chapter 3: Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
Chapter 4: Documentation and Informatics
Chapter 5: Vital Signs
Chapter 6: Health Assessment
Chapter 7: Specimen Collection
Chapter 8: Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 9: Medical Asepsis
Chapter 10: Sterile Technique
Chapter 11: Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
Chapter 12: Exercise, Mobility, and Immobilization Devices
Chapter 13: Support Surfaces and Special Beds
Chapter 14: Patient Safety
Chapter 15: Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 16: Pain Management
Chapter 17: End-of-Life Care
Chapter 18: Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
Chapter 19: Care of the Eye and Ear
Chapter 20: Safe Medication Preparation
Chapter 21: Nonparenteral Medications
Chapter 22: Parenteral Medications
Chapter 23: Oxygen Therapy
Chapter 24: Airway Management
Chapter 25: Cardiac Care
Chapter 26: Closed Chest Drainage Systems
Chapter 27: Emergency Measures for Life Support
Chapter 28: Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
Chapter 29: Blood Therapy
Chapter 30: Oral Nutrition
Chapter 31: Enteral Nutrition
Chapter 32: Parenteral Nutrition
Chapter 33: Urinary Elimination
Chapter 34: Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
Chapter 35: Ostomy Care
Chapter 36: Preoperative and Postoperative Care
Chapter 37: Intraoperative Care
Chapter 38: Wound Care and Irrigation
Chapter 39: Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
Chapter 40: Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
Chapter 41: Home Care Safety
Chapter 42: Home Care Teaching
Chapter Appendix A: Terminology/Combining Forms: Prefixes and Suffixes
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