Skills in Clinical Nursing

Help each student think like a nurse using a clear, consistent presentation of nursing skills

• Give students both the detailed step-by-step instructions they need, and the context to use these instructions effectively and professionally. Step-by-step instructions are organized into a coherent, easy-to-understand nursing process framework.

• ENHANCED: Make learning complicated skills easier and more intuitive.  Full-color photos and illustrations give students a visual representation of critical steps. The enhanced photo program includes more than 150 new photos and drawings to help students visualize concepts.
• NEW: Link QSEN competencies and make connections to nursing practice. This edition has incorporated QSEN competencies and specific expectations in special QSEN features. The QSEN features will guide students to learn and maintain safety and quality in their provision of nursing care by providing specific examples of how they relate to everyday practice.
  • NEW: Help students succeed with an increasingly diverse client population. Culturally Responsive Care features highlight diversity and special considerations in nursing care.
  • NEW: Help students succeed in any care facility or environment. Ambulatory and Community Settings features provide information about performing skills in diverse healthcare facilities and settings.
  • NEW: Reinforce safe nursing practices. Safety Alerts correlate to the National Patient Safety Goals and identify other crucial safety issues.
• NEW: Help students become effective members of a collaborative health care team. A section on Interprofessional Practice is included where relevant in specific skills to reinforce that multiple members of a health care team may be performing the same skill. Recognition of the overlapping of scopes of practice emphasizes the importance of a team approach to client care.
• Ensure that students always know why they are doing what they are doing. Easy-to-find rationales give students a clearer understanding of why critical steps are performed.
• Help students understand how skills fit together in real-world practice. The Applying the Nursing Process Feature ties each unit’s content together in a complete case study.

• Empower students to choose the method that works most effectively with each patient. Variations present alternative methods of performing certain skills.

• Prepare students to provide safe and efficient care as part of teams that include Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP). Delegation features explain when it is appropriate for nurses to delegate, and how to delegate tasks to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP).
• Help students visualize the performance of skills, anticipate unexpected outcomes, and respond to them quickly, safely, and effectively. “What If” features visually represent the flow of a skill in concept map format, exploring unexpected outcomes, and presenting options for them.

• Help students avoid errors, anticipate high-risk situations, and respond effectively to unexpected outcomes. Clinical Alerts highlight high-risk situations and other important information.

• Help students quickly and accurately select the right procedures and skills. Practice Guidelines provide instant-access summaries of common procedures and clinical practice.

• Prepare students to provide the best possible care to geriatric and pediatric patients. Lifespan Considerations present key age-related care issues.

• Help students become more effective at patient teaching, one of today’s most critical nursing roles. Patient Teaching Considerations present tips and tools to help patients facilitate self-care and wellness.

• Help students go beyond rote skills performance to become thoughtful, highly effective professionals. Focus on Clinical Thinking sections at the end of each chapter, promote critical thinking with application-oriented scenarios and questions.

• Help students find additional reliable information to explore skills even more thoroughly. Readings and References provide evidence-based sources and additional reading to support chapter content.
• Provide a clear, approachable introduction. Consistency and approachability are key for new nursing students. A very clear, approachable writing style makes this book popular with students and instructors.
• Offer a consistent, seamless skills presentation. Because Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing, Tenth Edition and the Skills in Clinical Nursing books are written by the same author team, fundamentals students experience a seamless presentation, style, and experience throughout.

Keep your course current

• NEW: Stay up-to-date with current standards of care. This edition continues to value and update standards of care as evidenced by the current CDC and WHO definitions and guidelines, 2014 National Patient Safety Goals for hospitals and long-term care, Infusion Nursing Society guidelines, ANA Scope & Standards, 2014 Hypertension Guidelines; IHI Pressure Ulcer Prevention Guidelines, OSHA/CDC BBP and Infection Prevention Standards, and Cancer Screening Guidelines.