CONTENTS

I. Quality and safety in nursing practice
1. Using evidence in nursing practice
2. Communication & collaboration
3. Documentation and informatics
4. Patient safety & quality improvement
5. Infection control

Ii. Patient assessment skills
6. Vital signs
7. Health assessment
8. Specimen collection
9. Diagnostic procedures

Iii. Basic human needs
10. Promoting hygiene
11. Care of the eye and ear
12. Promoting nutrition
13. Pain management
14. Promoting oxygenation

Iv. Activity and mobility
15. Safe patient handling, transfer, and positioning
16. Exercise and mobility
17. Traction, cast care, and immobilization device

V. Promoting elimination
18. Urinary elimination
19. Bowel elimination and gastrics intubation
20. Ostomy care

Vi. Medication administration
21. Preparation for safe medication administration
22. Administration of nonparenteral medications
23. Administration of parenteral medications

Vii. Dressings and wound care
24. Wound care and irrigation
25. Pressure ulcers
26. Dressings bandages and binders
27. Terapeutic use of healt and cold

Viii. Complex nursing interventions
28. Intravenous therapy
29. Preoperative and postoperative care
30. Emergency measures for life support in the hospital setting

Ix. Supportive nursing interventions
31. Paliative care
32. Home care safety

Apendixes
A. Answer key to end-of-chapter exercises
B. Abbreviations and equivalents