Best practices : evidence-based nursing procedures / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.Edition: 2nd EditionDescription: xi, 628 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781605477398
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Includes index.
What is best practice? Basic care Infection control Intravascular therapy Cardiovascular care Respiratory care Neurologic and sensory care Gastrointestinal care Renal and urologic care Orthopedic care Skin care Obstetric, neonatal, and postpartum care.
"Best Practices: Evidence-Based Nursing Procedures, Second Edition, gives you the evidence at every step to improve patient outcomes. The evidence that supports your actions: at-a-glance graphic symbols underscoring the research weight behind more than 200 procedures; support for thousands of nursing actions from research studies, the judgment of experts, and medical and nursing guidelines from AHRQ, AHA, INS, JCAHO, NIH, and many others; clinical impact of key recommendations; alerts to crucial nursing considerations; Innovative practices that have proven successful for your colleagues; and controversial issues, both resolved and ongoing, behind practice points; blood pressure classifications, new algorithms for stroke and pulseless arrest, surgical site verification, BLS algorithm, jugular venous oxygen saturation monitoring, amnioinfusion, newborn eye prophylaxis, tocolytic therapy, vacuum extraction; current nursing diagnoses, including expected outcomes; and teaching points for correctly educating your patient about his illness, treatment, and self-care.".
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