Master Nursing Skills with Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 7th Edition

Develop your nursing skills with the guidance of renowned authors Anne G. Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN, Patricia A. Potter RN PhD FAAN, and Wendy R. Ostendorf RN MS EdD CNEM. The concise coverage in Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 7th Edition makes it easy to learn the skills most commonly used in everyday nursing practice.

Comprehensive Coverage of Nursing Skills

This edition covers over 160 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills, from measuring body temperature to insertion of a peripheral intravenous device. The step-by-step instructions are clear and concise, using evidence-based concepts to improve patient safety and outcomes.

Streamlined and Visual Approach

The book’s streamlined and visual approach makes it easy to read and understand, with an Evolve companion website that enhances learning with review questions and handy checklists for each clinical skill.

Key Features

• Safe Patient Care Alerts: Highlight risks or other key information to know in performing skills, so you can plan ahead at each step of nursing care.
• Using Evidence in Nursing Practice chapter: Provides the information needed to use evidence-based care to solve clinical problems.
• Delegation & Collaboration guidelines: Help you make decisions in whether to delegate a skill to unlicensed assistive personnel, and indicates what key information must be shared.
• Teach-Back step: Shows how to evaluate the success of patient teaching, so you can see whether the patient understands a task or topic or if additional teaching may be needed.
• Recording guidelines: Describe what should be reported and documented after performing skills, with Hand-off Reporting sections listing important patient care information to include in the handoff.
• Special Considerations: Indicate the additional risks or accommodations you may face when caring for pediatric or geriatric patients, as well as patients in home care settings.

New Features in the 7th Edition

• 2017 Infusion Nurses Society standards: Included on administering IVs and on other changes in evidence-based practice.
• Disaster Preparedness chapter: Focuses on caring for patients after biological, chemical, or radiation exposure.
• SBAR samples: Show how to quickly and effectively communicate a patient’s condition in terms of Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation.
• Practice Reflections sections: Include a clinical scenario and questions, helping you reflect on clinical and simulation experiences.
• Three Master Debriefs: Help you develop a better understanding of the “big picture” by synthesizing skill performance with overall patient care.

Product Details

Publisher: Mosby; 7th edition (March 27, 2019)

Language: English

Paperback: 896 pages

ISBN-10: 032354701X

ISBN-13: 978-0323547017