Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques

Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the NextGeneration NCLEX Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition provides clear, stepbystep guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 fullcolor illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidencebased practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market! Comprehensive coverage includes more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills and procedures. Rationales for each step within skills explain the why as well as the how of each skill and include citations from the current literature. Clinical Judgments alert you to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help you modify care as needed to meet individual patient needs. UNIQUE! Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions sections highlight what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene. Clinical Review Questions at the end of each chapter provides casebased review questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decisionmaking. More than 1,200 fullcolor photos and drawings help you visualize concepts and procedures. Nursing process format provides a consistent presentation that helps you apply the process while learning each skill. NEW! Allnew Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice chapter incorporates concepts of the NCSBN clinical judgment model. Updated evidencebased literature is incorporated throughout the skills. NEW! Endofchapter questions and endofunit unfolding case studies provide optimal preparation for the NextGeneration NCLEX (NGN).