Author(s): Anne Griffin Perry; Patricia A. Potter

Educational Text Books

• Coverage of QSEN core competencies includes delegation and collaboration, guidelines for reporting and recording, and pediatric, geriatric, home care, and teaching considerations.
• Unique! Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chapter covers the entire process of conducting research, including collecting, evaluating, and applying evidence from published research.
• Comprehensive coverage includes 212 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills.
• Clinical Decision Points within skills address key safety issues or possible skill modifications for specific patient needs.
• Icons indicate video clips related to skills and procedures in the book and related lessons in Nursing Skills Online.
• Rationales for each skill step explain why steps are performed in a specific way, including their clinical significance and benefit, and incorporate the latest research findings.
• The five-step nursing process provides a framework for the description of skills within overall client care.
• Unique! Unexpected outcomes and related interventions alert you to what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
• Online checklists and video clips may be downloaded to mobile devices.

• NEW Patient-Centered Care sections address issues unique to people of specific cultural, ethnic, and demographic backgrounds - a QSEN core competency.
• NEW Safety Guidelines sections cover the global recommendations on the safe execution of skill sets - also a QSEN core competency.
• UPDATED Adverse Event Reporting (AER) procedural guideline covers the correct response to Serious Event Reporting within the healthcare facility.
• NEW! Safe Transfer to a Wheel Chair procedural guideline focuses on the safety aspect of this common maneuver.
• NEW! Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired Patient skill provides the understanding and protocol for dealing with patients who are unable to communicate in a typical manner.
• NEW! Assessing the Genitalia and Rectum skill includes complete information and rationales.
• NEW! Caring for Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO) and C. difficili skill covers this growing challenge to patient welfare and to healthcare providers.