Specifically designed for student nurses, Clinical Skills for Nurses provides a handy, portable introduction to both the knowledge and practical procedures that first year nursing students require. Giving you the knowledge behind the skill, this book will boost your confidence and competence for your clinical placements and time in the clinical skills lab. Clinical Skills for Nurses covers the skills and procedures used most frequently in clinical practice, and includes Point of Care raining; personal care; blood transfusion and tracheotomy care; continence and bowel care; and early patient assessment and response. This book uniquely incorporates words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses; in other words; written BY the student, FOR the student! Special features: By students, for students Pocket sized for portability on your clinical placement Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters Examples and questions based on real life nursing & healthcare examples
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PREFACE vi INTRODUCTION vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x 1 PERFORMING OBSERVATIONS 1 2 MALE URETHRAL CATHETERISATION 19 3 FEMALE URETHRAL CATHETERISATION 49 4 BOWEL CARE 57 5 TRACHEOSTOMY CARE 83 6 POINT-OF-CARE TRAINING 97 7 BLOOD TRANSFUSION 117 8 VENEPUNCTURE 133 9 PERIPHERAL CANNULATION 151 10 EARLY PATIENT ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE 161 11 INTRAVENOUS THERAPY 173 12 BASIC LIFE SUPPORT 183 ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND "TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE" 191 APPENDIX 1: THE BRISTOL OBSERVATION CHART 201 BIBLIOGRAPHY 205 INDEX 209
