Main description:

Clinical Skills: an introduction for nursing and healthcare covers the essential clinical skills required by nurses.

It offers an ideal introduction to clinical skills for adult nursing students, and it will also be useful for student nurses in other fields of practice, for trainee nursing associates and for other healthcare students who need to carry out clinical procedures when caring for people in a healthcare environment.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will help students to:

develop their proficiency in carrying out the nursing procedures required to qualify as a Registered Nurse
understand when and how to provide nursing intervention and support to people in their care
broaden and deepen their knowledge through the use of realistic scenarios
apply their knowledge in a person-centred and compassionate way
reflect on their own values and learning experiences to enhance their nursing practice
improve their nursing skills by using the 'hints for practice' and 'alerts'

The clear, reader-friendly presentation will help students develop the underpinning knowledge and understanding of the clinical skills they will need throughout their healthcare career.

"The clinical skills book is a gem, easy to follow, eye catching, and relevant to all skills modules across all years of the nursing programme." Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Health, Science and Wellbeing, Staffordshire University

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Interpersonal skills

3. Infection control

4. Nursing assessment

5. Observations

6. Early warning scores - the detection of deterioration

7. Personal care

8. Specimen collection

9. Skin integrity, assessment and pressure area care

10. Moving and handling

11. Nutrition and fluid management

12. Bowel care, suppositories and enemas

13. Legal, ethical and professional aspects of medicines management

14. Administration and optimisation of medicines

15. Pain management

16. Catheterisation

17. Airway management and life support

18. Pre- and post-operative care

19. Venepuncture and cannulation

20. Blood transfusion

21. Transferring and discharging people

22. Caring for the dying person

Glossary; Index