Best practices : evidence-based nursing procedures.
Best practices : evidence-based nursing procedures.
- Second edition.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007
- xi, 628 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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."--Jacket.
9781582555324
NURSING -- QUALITY CONTROL
RT 85.5 .B47 2007
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."--Jacket.
9781582555324
NURSING -- QUALITY CONTROL
RT 85.5 .B47 2007