Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide + Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide (Package)

Kerry Reid-Searl, Trudy Dwyer, Lorna Moxham (Autoren)

Media-Kombination

2024 | 5th edition
Pearson
978-0-6557-1984-7 (ISBN)

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A pocket-sized guide that supports nursing students throughout their education and into the workplace This pack contains 1 copy of Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide and 1 copy of Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide.

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These survival guides are not rivalled by anything else on the market. As a support text, these quick-reference guides assist students with tips to competently conduct clinical skills for safe and person-centred care in clinical settings.

Whether used individually by nursing students through their education and into early practice or as an educator-prescribed tool, these guides support students to deliver competent person-centred care in professional practice, practices, and standards.

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Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide



INTRODUCTION
MATHS REVISITED
Mathematical symbols
Order of operations
Applying addition and subtraction to fluid balance charts
Number fact grids
Time
Fractions, decimal and percentage conversions
The base system
The decimal point
Revisiting basic algorithm
Working with fractions
Percentages
Rounding
The metric system
HANDY TABLES INVOLVING MEASUREMENT
Paediatrics
Rule of nines
Body Mass Index (BMI)
FORMULAS USED IN HEALTH CARE
Calculating dosage using a formula
Standard medication charts
The medication order
The medication label
Telephone orders of prescription drugs
Frequency and times of medication administration
Commonly used abbreviations
APPLYING DRUG CALCULATIONS USING FORMULAS
Calculating oral medications
Calculating parenteral medications
INTRAVENOUS THERAPY
Fluid redistribution properties
The legal fluid order
The legal additive label
Abbreviations for intravenous fluids
Calculating intravenous fluid rates
Electronic infusions
HIGH-RISK MEDICATIONS
INSULIN
Subcutaneous insulin administration
HEPARIN AND OTHER ANTICOAGULANTS
Heparin
Warfarin
Other oral anticoagulants
THE PROCESS OF MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
The 'six rights' and 'more'
Preventing medication errors

Nursing Student's Clinical Survival Guide



24-HOUR CLOCK
SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE
Standard precautions
Transmission-based precautions
Other precautions
Hand hygiene
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Body fluids exposure
Moving a patient safely
Falls prevention
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention
MEDICATION SAFETY
The 'six rights' and 'more'
Medication orders
Medication safety requirements
Intramuscular injection sites
Medication administration and student nurses
Abbreviations used in medication administration
Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) maintenance
Metric system and symbols
Drug calculations/formulas
Drug name endings and related information
High-risk medicines resource (APINCHS)
Drugs and antidotes
OXYGEN CONCENTRATION DELIVERY FLUID BALANCE
Useful measurements for fluid balance charts
Fluid balance safety tips
Classification of urine output
Fluid losses
Fluid redistribution properties
ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT
Vital signs
Vital signs: normal ranges
Early warning systems (ADULT)
Head-to-toe assessment
Signs of stroke
Signs of sepsis
Neurovascular assessment
Pain assessment
Common sites of referred pain from various body organs
The four abdominal quadrants
BLOOD VALUES
NORMAL ELECTROLYTE VALUES FOR ADULTS
NORMAL VALUES OF BLOOD GASES
NORMAL VALUES IN A URINALYSIS
MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
RESUSCITATION
Cardiac rhythms
When to seek help/person review
CPR
Basic life support flow chart
Paediatric advanced cardiovascular life support
Adult advanced cardiovascular life support
Choking flow chart
WOUND CARE
Factors that inhibit healing
Wound classification
Wound types
Phases of wound healing
Wound assessment
Pressure injuries
Stages of pressure injuries
Pressure injury risk assessment tools
Pressure injury prevention
Skin tears
Wound-care products
Calculation of ankle/brachial pressure index (ABPI)
CLINICAL REASONING CYCLE
COMMUNICATION
Guidelines for All documentation (written or electronic)
Writing with SOAPIE
Writing with PIE
CLINICAL HANDOVER
ISBAR
PACE
TIME MANAGEMENT GRID
GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
USEFUL WEBSITES

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 85 x 123 mm
• Gewicht: 168 g
• ISBN-10: 0-6557-1984-9 / 0655719849
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6557-1984-7 / 9780655719847
• Zustand: Neuware