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Fundamental nursing skills and concepts / Barbara Kuhn Timby.

By: Timby, Barbara Kuhn.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Lippincott's practical nursing: Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, c2013Edition: 10th ed.Description: xxi, 926 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781608317875 (alk. paper); 1608317870 (alk. paper).Uniform titles: Fundamental skills and concepts in patient care Subject(s): Nursing | Nursing Care | Health and Wellbeing | NursingDDC classification: 610.73 TIM
Contents:
Unit 1: Exploring contemporary nursing. Nursing foundations -- Nursing process -- unit 2: Integrating basic concepts. Laws and ethics -- Health and illness -- Homeostasis, adaptation, and stress -- Culture and ethnicity -- unit 3: Fostering communication. The nurse-client relationship -- Client teaching -- Recording and reporting -- unit 4: Performing basic client care. Asepsis -- Admission, discharge, transfer, and referrals -- Vital signs -- Physical assessment -- Special examinations and tests -- unit 5: Assisting with basic needs. Nutrition -- Fluid and chemical balance -- Hygiene -- Comfort, rest, and sleep -- Safety -- Pain management -- Oxygenation -- Infection control -- unit 6: Assisting the inactive client. Body mechanics, positioning, and moving -- Therapeutic exercise -- Mechanical immobilization -- Ambulatory aids -- unit 7: The surgical client. Perioperative care -- Wound care -- Gastrointestinal intubation -- unit 8: Promoting elimination. Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- unit 9: Medication administration. Oral medications -- Topical and inhalant medications -- Parenteral medications -- Intravenous medications -- unit 10: Intervening in emergency situations. Airway management -- Resuscitation -- unit 11: Caring for the terminally ill. End-of-life care -- Appendices -- Glossary -- NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses 2012-2014.
Summary: Intended for the LPN/LVN student, this volume integrates textual material with step-by-step instructions. There are critical thinking exercises & NCLEX-style questions with each chapter.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This very popular full-color text, now in its Tenth Edition, combines theoretical nursing concepts, step-by-step skills and procedures, and clinical applications to form the foundation of the LPN/LVN course of study. This edition retains the well-liked organization and features of previous editions, including an impressive and comprehensive ancillary package for students and faculty, end-of-unit exercises, and specially displayed Gerontologic Considerations. In addition, it features new Nutrition Notes and Pharmacological Considerations written by renowned experts as well as thoroughly updated content on quality and safety and new technologies, as well as nursing practice, laws and ethics, recording and reporting, nutrition, fluid and chemical balance, asepsis, infection control, medication administration, cost-related issues, emerging healthcare settings, concept mapping, malpractice, documentation and reporting, HIPAA, and more. The accompanying for-sale Student Study Guide has been converted to a Student Workbook, with the answers available only to instructors online, to enhance the student's study experience. This product is truly a comprehensive curricular resource, especially when packaged with its sister publication, Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing.

Includes Internet access.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1: Exploring contemporary nursing. Nursing foundations -- Nursing process -- unit 2: Integrating basic concepts. Laws and ethics -- Health and illness -- Homeostasis, adaptation, and stress -- Culture and ethnicity -- unit 3: Fostering communication. The nurse-client relationship -- Client teaching -- Recording and reporting -- unit 4: Performing basic client care. Asepsis -- Admission, discharge, transfer, and referrals -- Vital signs -- Physical assessment -- Special examinations and tests -- unit 5: Assisting with basic needs. Nutrition -- Fluid and chemical balance -- Hygiene -- Comfort, rest, and sleep -- Safety -- Pain management -- Oxygenation -- Infection control -- unit 6: Assisting the inactive client. Body mechanics, positioning, and moving -- Therapeutic exercise -- Mechanical immobilization -- Ambulatory aids -- unit 7: The surgical client. Perioperative care -- Wound care -- Gastrointestinal intubation -- unit 8: Promoting elimination. Urinary elimination -- Bowel elimination -- unit 9: Medication administration. Oral medications -- Topical and inhalant medications -- Parenteral medications -- Intravenous medications -- unit 10: Intervening in emergency situations. Airway management -- Resuscitation -- unit 11: Caring for the terminally ill. End-of-life care -- Appendices -- Glossary -- NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses 2012-2014.

Intended for the LPN/LVN student, this volume integrates textual material with step-by-step instructions. There are critical thinking exercises & NCLEX-style questions with each chapter.