| Ministrations, acts of aid or service to the patient, arethe heart and soul of nursing. Sweeping changes maytransform the face of the profession--the emergence ofunions, nurses entering private practice--but they can'tshake the simple, timeless truth that nurses take care ofpeople. Yet there has never been a reference book to whichnurses could turn for information that combines thesettings. This latest volume in theovercomes these problems and superbly fills the long-standing need for a definitive book on nursing proce-dures. An excellent and exhaustive resource, PROCEDURESemphasizes the practical aspects of nursing care. Inprecise, step-by-step fashion, it details the correctmethod for performing many nursing tasks--from therelatively simple, like making an occupied bed, tothe complex, such as intraaortic balloon pumping. The book is divided into two parts. The first coversfundamental nursing skills--facilitating mobility, forexample, and controlling infection--that mav be usedfor virtually all patients. The second discusses proceduresfor diagnosing, monitoring, and treating patients withdisorders or conditions associated with various bodvsystems. Chapters on neonatal and pediatric proceduresround out the book. Throughout, scores of helpful illustrations, charts, and diagrams clari~ and augment the text. A special full-color section summarizes recent advances in equipment. The inside front cover provides a useful guide to priorities in cardiac arrest. The inside back cover provides an index of the procedures that are most often used in emergency situations. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction that offers general information relevant to the procedures that follow. Each entry begins with a concise introduction describing the procedt~ and its purpose, the variousindications for its use, sand any contraindicatiotions for a procedure nvariations easier. The nu |
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