Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts

Barbara Kuhn Timby

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009 - Medical - 969 pages

Now in its Ninth Edition, this full-color text combines theoretical nursing concepts, step-by-step skills and procedures, and clinical applications to form the foundation of the LPN/LVN course of study. This edition features over 100 new photographs, exciting full-color ancillaries, end-of-unit exercises, and extensively updated chapters on nursing foundations, laws and ethics, recording and reporting, nutrition, fluid and chemical balance, safety, asepsis, infection control, and medication administration. Coverage includes new information on cost-related issues, emerging healthcare settings, concept mapping, malpractice, documentation and reporting, HIPAA, and more. All Gerontologic Considerations sections have been thoroughly updated by renowned experts.

Contents

• Fundamental Nursing Concepts: 1
• NURSING PROCESS: 16
• INTEGRATING BASIC CONCEPTS: 33
• Health: 50
• Nursing Team: 57
• CULTURE AND ETHNICITY: 71
• FOSTERING COMMUNICATION: 91
• CLIENT TEACHING: 101
• Skill 81 Teaching Adult Clients: 107
• Fundamental Nursing Skills: 133
• Skill 101 Handwashing: 150
• Skill 103 Creating a Sterile Field and Adding Sterile Items: 157
• ADMISSION DISCHARGE: 163
• Skill 111 Admitting a Client: 179
• Skill 121 Assessing Body Temperature: 209
• Skill 122 Assessing the Radial Pulse: 216
• Skill 125 Obtaining a Thigh Blood Pressure: 224
• SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS AND TESTS: 252
• Skill 141 Assisting With a Pelvic Examination: 269
• Skill 143 Using a Glucometer: 275
• ASSISTING WITH BASIC NEEDS: 287
• Skill 151 Serving and Removing Meal Trays: 307
• Skill 161 Recording Intake and Output: 337
• Skill 163 Starting an Intravenous Infusion: 343
• Skill 165 Changing IV Tubing: 349
• Skill 168 Administering a Blood Transfusion: 355
• Skill 171 Providing a Tub Bath or Shower: 374
• Skill 173 Giving a Bed Bath: 380
• COMFORT REST AND SLEEP: 387
• SAFETY: 415
• Nursing Implications: 426
• PAIN MANAGEMENT: 434
• Skill 201 Preparing a PatientControlled: 451
• Skill 211 Using a Pulse Oximeter: 478
• INFECTION CONTROL: 488
• Skill 221 Removing Personal Protective Equipment: 501
• ASSISTING THE INACTIVE CLIENT: 515
• Protective Devices: 524
• THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE: 543
• Skill 241 Performing RangeofMotion ROM Exercises: 552
• Skill 242 Using a Continuous Passive Motion CPM Machine: 560
• Skill 251 Applying an Arm Sling: 576
• AMBULATORY AIDS: 584
• Skill 261 Measuring for Crutches Canes and Walkers: 595
• Skill 263 Applying a Leg Prosthesis: 602
• THE SURGICAL CLIENT: 613
• Surgical Waiting Area: 625
• Skill 271 Applying Antiembolism Stockings: 631
• WOUND CARE: 638
• Skill 281 Changing a Gauze Dressing: 655
• GASTROINTESTINAL INTUBATION: 664
• PROMOTING ELIMINATION: 703
• Skill 301 Placing and Removing a Bedpan: 719
• Skill 304 Inserting a Foley Catheter in a Male: 729
• BOWEL ELIMINATION: 736
• Skill 311 Inserting a Rectal Tube: 747
• Skill 314 Changing an Ostomy Appliance: 754
• MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION: 767
• Skill 321 Administering Oral Medications: 779
• Skill 331 Instilling Eye Medications: 792
• INTRAVENOUS MEDICATIONS: 816
• Skill 351 Administering Intravenous Medication: 825
• INTERVENING IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS: 843
• Nursing Implications: 849
• Skill 362 Providing Tracheostomy Care: 855
• CARING FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: 875
• REFERENCES: 893
• APPENDIX ACHAPTER SUMMARIES: 914
• APPENDIX BCOMMONLY USED: 927
• INDEX: 945

About the author

Barbara Kuhn Timby is Nursing Professor, Glen Oaks Community College, Centreville, Michigan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts; Lippincott's practical nursing
• Author: Barbara Kuhn Timby
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009
• ISBN: 078177909X, 9780781779098
• Length: 969 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Nursing / General