Main description:

Employing an evidence-based approach, this comprehensive textbook introduces the core clinical skills and competencies a newly-qualified nurse is required to have for professional practice. It is divided into five broad sections looking at:

Care and compassion and communication, including personal care and pain assessment

Essential skills, including observations, monitoring and emergency management

Organisational aspects of care, including moving and handling, and wound care

Safety and protection, including medicine management and infection control

Nutrition and fluid balance, including hydration and nutrition.

Designed to allow readers to develop and enhance their clinical skills with one key textbook, each chapter contains learning outcomes, recommendations for practice, case studies, activities, 'clinical significance' highlights and step-by-step guides to important procedures.

This invaluable clinical skills textbook is an essential reference for pre-registration nursing students of all fields of nursing.

Contents:

1. Professional Role of the Nurse

Part 1: Care and Compassion and Communication

2. Communication

3. Personal care

4. Elimination
5. Pain Assessment and Management

6. End of Life Care

Part 2: Essential skills

7. Observations and Monitoring (vital signs)

8. Monitoring and Interpreting

9. Oxygenation

10. Emergency Management of the Patient and Resuscitation

Part 3: Organisational aspects of care

11. Moving and Handling

12. Wound Care
13. Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care
14. Tracheostomy Care

Part 4: Safety and Protection

15. Infection Control

16. Safe and Accurate Administration of Medicines

Part 5: Nutrition and Fluid balance

17. Nutrition

18. Hydration and Fluid Balance