Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills (Elkin, Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills) - 3179

This market-leading, user-friendly textbook provides complete coverage of nearly 150 nursing skills in a streamlined, step-by-step, visual format. More than 860 full-color photos and drawings clarify key concepts, bringing important procedures and techniques to life. The nursing process framework helps put nursing skills in the context of care delivery and rationales for key steps help you understand why specific techniques are used. The nursing process provides a consistent framework that helps you understand where skills fit into the broader context of patient care. A section on standard beginning and completion protocols is printed on the inside front cover so that routine steps are not repeated throughout the text. Similar skills are covered together, to reflect the way they are commonly taught. Easy-to-follow, 2-column format lists key steps for each skill with appropriate rationales to help you understand and remember why specific techniques are used. Over 860 full-color photogra